Australia
Curwon
Curwon Pty Ltd, is a Queensland registered, dedicated copper exploration company, with the same ownership as Munuku Pty Ltd. The four permits are concentrated within the catchment of the Coleman River in Far North Queensland. The Curwon prospect was first drilled in the early 1990’s, with medium-grade shows. Little subsequent exploration has occurred until the last two years following Curwon’s permitting. In 2022 we flew Airmag over the site, with encouraging results. We are planning initial drilling in July/August 2023.
Munuku
Munuku Pty Ltd is a Queensland registered mineral exploration company, privately owned by Hardie Pacific’s Director Duncan Hardie and Michael Thirnbeck. Munuku have ten exploration permits, with emphasis on copper, gold, rare earths and critical minerals. The permits are accessible via the Cape York Peninsula Development Road in Far North Queensland. Munuku’s portfolio totals 249,460 hectares. Our recent activity includes on-going field work, airmag surveys and reporting.
New Zealand
Westland Mineral Sands
Hardie Pacific is the largest shareholder in this Company, holding permits in Westland, New Zealand, containing in excess of 50m tonnes of heavy mineral concentrate (HMC), which include garnets, ilmenite, and rare earths. WMSL has re-opened of both the Buller River Port at Westport and the Grey River Port, to allow for the bulk export of HMC to the world markets. A Wet Concentrator Plant (WCP) is now operating 24 hours a day, with regular export shipments of HMC to the world markets.
Smylers Gold
The Smylers Gold Pty Ltd project is located in Central Otago. Through detailed surface mapping, geochemical sampling, and drilling currently with three rigs, we have extended the known Hyde-Macraes Shear Zone 5km eastwards towards Palmerston, within our licence area (EP60389). The c.10 million-ounce Hyde-Macraes Shear Zone hosts the Macraes Mine, New Zealand’s largest producing gold mine. Recent work has revealed multiple gold-bearing shear structures that display characteristic Macraes gold and tungsten mineralisation across two key prospects.
Commitment to Research & Industry Bodies
In New Zealand we are closely aligned with various universities to support our various projects in their research and development. In Australia, we work with several of the Queensland Government Collaborative Exploration Initiative (CEI) Schemes, specifically focussing on critical minerals.