New gold intercepts announced by Beadell Resources Limited (Beadell) in December 2009 at their Handpump Prospect in the West Musgrave Province herald the first significant gold intercepts from the West Musgrave District and may point to a new Mesoproterozoic gold province.

Four exploration licences have been pegged north-west of the Handpump Prospect. These tenements overlay a regional north-west domain fault that is evident in the regional gravity and magnetics and lies adjacent to the Handpump Prospect and separates the western Mission and Cassidy Group (volcanics and sediments) from the eastern Giles Complex.