The Goodyear nickel prospect is located 45 km southeast of
Kalgoorlie (31.04S, 121.80E) near the eastern boundary of
Hampton Area - East Location 45 (Figure 1). Nickel
mineralisation was discovered on the Goodyear prospect in
March 1996 when a reverse circulation drillhole (GYC5), initially
drilled in December 1995, was deepened to meet a minimum
footwall penetration requirement of 20 in that had been set for the
drill program. Approximately 3 in of sulphides averaging 4.9 per
cent nickel was intersected from 296 metres down-hole, this
being within 2 in of the first end-of-hole. Hole GYC5 was part of an eight hole drilling program
undertaken by Titan Resources in late-1995. This program was
designed to test whether nickel mineralisation in the Dunlop
prospect, discovered by the Western Mining Corporation - BHP
Camylia Joint Venture immediately east of the East Location 45
boundary, continued across the tenement boundary. The area
targeted by the initial drill program had been explored by Western Mining Corporation in the mid-1980s using extensive surface
sampling and a drilling program that included 17 RAB and
percussion drillholes. None of these holes intersected nickel
Mineralisation.