Golden State has a significant tenement position of 335 km2 in the Marda-Jackson Greenstone Belt, north of Southern Cross, in WA.

Located approximately 150 km north of Southern Cross and Sons of Gwalia's mining operations at Cornishman-Marvel Loch, the Johnson Range Project is highly prospective for gold due to its structural setting and past exploration results.

Johnston Range covers the zone of intersection of faults controlling the location of gold deposits at Evanston and Diemals with a flexure in the major regional fault associated with the emplacement of gold mineralisation in the Sandstone, Youanmi, Bullfinch and Southern Cross districts.

The project is an under-explored area where past soil geochemistry has identified widely dispersed gold occurrences.
The project area has in the past been poorly explored due to masking by transported cover. Recent exploration by Golden State has located new encouraging gold anomalies in soils and in outcrop.