Madman Drilling Recommences Targeting EM Conductor
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ASX Release Buxton Resources Ltd (ASX:BUX) 23 September 2026
Madman Drilling Recommences Targeting EM Conductor
• McKay Drilling has mobilised to site and commenced drilling MD004DD, the
first hole of Buxton’s second drilling program at Madman
• The hole is designed to test the off-hole electromagnetic conductor modelled
approximately 250 m north-northeast of MD003DD
• Assays for MD003DD are anticipated in October; heritage work program
notices have been lodged for ground gravity and ground electromagnetic
surveys and for further diamond drilling
Figure 1: Drilling activities underway at Madman 21 September 2026
Buxton Managing Director Marty Moloney commented: “The maiden holes at
Madman confirmed the presence of a basement hosted hydrothermal system with
anomalous gold and copper plus alteration, structure and pathfinder signatures
consistent with Paterson Orogen style gold-copper deposits such as Havieron, Winu
and Telfer. That program also revealed an electromagnetic conductor sitting off to
the north-northeast, and that is what MD004DD is designed to test.”
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Buxton Resources Ltd (ASX: BUX) (“Buxton” or “the Company”) advises that drilling
has recommenced at the 100%-owned Madman Cu-Au Project. McKay Drilling has
mobilised to site and has collared MD004DD. This hole is designed to test an off-
hole electromagnetic conductor modelled approximately 250 m north-northeast of
MD003DD.
The conductor was identified by downhole electromagnetic surveying of the two
maiden holes, lies outside the intervals either hole tested, and has not been drilled.
Rig availability is presently limited to a single hole, which is expected to take three
to four weeks to complete.
MD004DD is collared at the existing MD003DD drill pad and planned at -70° toward
015° to a depth of 800 m, a trajectory selected to intersect the modelled plate
solutions between approximately 600 m and 700 m downhole.
Assaying of MD003DD remains in progress at the laboratory. Ground gravity and
ground electromagnetic surveys are also planned, to test for density and conductivity
anomalies beyond the effective detection range of the current downhole
electromagnetic coverage, which is of the order of 350 m from a drillhole. Those
surveys, together with further diamond drilling, are the subject of heritage work
program notices currently being reviewed by the Native Title Holders under the
Company’s Land Access Agreement.
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This announcement is authorised by the Board of Buxton Resources Ltd. For further
information, please contact:
Martin Moloney
Managing Director
marty@buxtonresources.com.au
Sam Wright
Company Secretary
sam@buxtonresources.com.au
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Figure 2: Madman Project summary cross section (looking ~WNW) showing the planned MD004DD
trace testing the finalised DHEM conductor plate models along with an interpretive fault model based
on preliminary observations and measurements made during core mark-up – detailed structural
logging is in progress. The 800 m planned hole is projected to intersect the plates between
approximately 600 m and 700 m downhole (see inset).
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Figure 3: Plan view of the maiden drill holes MD002DD and MD003DD with the suite of finalised
DHEM plate models and the planned MD004DD trajectory.
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About the Madman Project
The Madman Project is located 375 km northeast of Wiluna and is accessible via the
Gunbarrel and Eagle Highways, then along a historic seismic line track in good condition.
Buxton has improved the last ~6 km of this seismic line, then established 56 km of new access
tracks (Figure 3).
Buxton’s maiden drilling program was undertaken in July and August 2026 and comprised
two diamond exploration holes, MD002DD and MD003DD, together with a water bore. Both
holes were drilled through the Officer Basin cover sequence and into the underlying
basement, and both intersected zones of quartz-carbonate veining, brecciation and sulphide
mineralisation within that basement, with the veining extending into the basal part of the
Skates Hills Formation conglomerate. Magnetite-bearing gneiss towards the base of each
hole provides a plausible geological explanation for the magnetic anomaly that defined the
initial target.
Assay and logging results for MD002DD, reported on 20 August 2026, describe a zoned
hydrothermal system rather than a single mineralised interval: a potassic alteration zone
carrying a coherent bismuth-uranium-molybdenum-lead-copper pathfinder association, an
overlying argillic zone, a distal lead-zinc-silver halo, and an anomalous gold-copper-bismuth
interval in the lower part of the hole. Buxton’s interpretation is that MD002DD intersected
the peripheral alteration envelope of a large system rather than its centre. That
interpretation, together with the position of the modelled conductor outside both maiden
holes, is the basis for the current program.
Target Rationale
Downhole electromagnetic surveying of MD002DD identified a discrete conductive
response approximately 350 m north of that hole. Downhole electromagnetic surveying of
MD003DD has since been completed from two separate surface transmitter loop positions,
confirming the same off-hole response and allowing the modelling to be constrained more
tightly. The conductor is now modelled approximately 250 m north-northeast of MD003DD.
It lies outside the intervals tested by either hole and has not been drilled. The cross section
at Figure 1 shows both holes against the suite of equivalent conductive plates, together with
the planned MD004DD trace; Figure 2 shows the same elements in plan view, with the two
holes offset by around 200 m.
Electromagnetic plate modelling is non-unique. The plates shown are alternative solutions
that each independently satisfy the same measured response — they are not separate
conductive bodies. Modelled plate size and conductance trade off against one another, with
smaller plates requiring higher conductance to fit the data, and modelled conductance
values should not be read as measurements of the conductivity of any physical body.
Modelled plate dimensions range from approximately 400 x 400 m to 1,000 x 1,000 m, with
moderate modelled conductances of approximately 400 to 1,000 Siemens. Plate orientation
resolves consistently as striking northwest and dipping 55 to 75 degrees to the southwest,
interpreted to reflect structural control. The source of the conductive response is unknown.
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Responses of this character may be produced by sulphide, graphite, magnetite, saline
groundwater or conductive lithologies, and no inference as to the presence, size, tenor or
continuity of sulphide mineralisation should be drawn from the plate models.
The cross section (Figure 1) also illustrates a marked thickening of the Skates Hills Formation
conglomerate, which is over four times thicker in MD003DD than in MD002DD across only
~200 m of lateral separation. The top of the conglomerate is essentially flat between the two
holes while its base steps down by more than 100 m, and bedding within the unit is flat lying
in both holes. Those relationships are more readily explained by fault displacement than by
depositional drape or erosion, and place a structure between the two holes. Buxton’s
working interpretation is a releasing step in a strike-slip fault system rather than a simple
half-graben; the conglomerate thickness intersected in MD004DD will discriminate between
the two. On either interpretation the structure provides a plausible conduit for the
hydrothermal fluids logged in both maiden holes. Detailed structural logging, along with
assaying of MD003DD is in progress.
MD004DD has been designed to test the modelled conductor. The hole is collared at the
existing MD003DD drill pad and planned at -70° toward 015° to a depth of 800 m, a
trajectory selected to pass through the centroid of the modelled plate solutions. Final collar
position and hole design remain subject to confirmation on site.
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Figure 4: Regional setting of the Madman Project showing the key supporting geological elements
including the Marloo Fault and extensions and the nearby gold-bearing mineral occurrences at
Quadrio Lake and in the GSWA Trainor 1 stratigraphic drillhole. The extent of the Paterson Orogen
and related major mineral deposits is also shown.
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Previously Reported Information – Madman
There is information in this Announcement relating to Exploration Results previously announced on:
- 12 Aug 2026 Madman Project – Maiden Drilling Program Completed
- 20 Aug 2026 MD002DD Assays Support Madman Prospectivity
- 01 Sep 2026 Madman DHEM Complete; Rig Secured to Test Conductor
Validity of Referenced Results
Buxton confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the
information from previous ASX Announcements which has been referenced in this Announcement.
The JORC Code (2012) Table 1 disclosures applicable to the Madman Project drilling results were first
reported in the ASX Announcement of 12 August 2026 and were updated in the Announcements
listed above; all material assumptions and technical parameters continue to apply and have not
materially changed.
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