Western Australian gold explorer Torque Metals Limited (ASX: TOR) has intersected a new shallow mineralized zone and multiple sulphide-mineralized intervals at its wholly-owned Paris Project, located southeast of Kalgoorlie on the gold rich Boulder-Lefroy Fault Zone.
“Diamond drilling at Paris prospect has intersected multiple highly altered fault zones with abundant sulphide mineralization, albite alteration, and quartz veining over significant visible widths, providing promising opportunities to locate additional mineralization,” Managing Director, Cristian Moreno, said.
“Pre-collar RC drilling at the Paris prospect also yielded a shallow section of 15m grading 1.22g/t gold from 51m, including a higher-grade section of 6m at 2.27g/t gold from 60m. “The new mineralized zone in this shallow area was unexpected and is a significant development that demonstrates the potential to contribute to a gold resource at shallow depth.
“The diamond hole drilled at Observation Prospect revealed an interval of potentially mineralized breccia of at least 7m. If assays confirm the presence of gold mineralization, this will provide significant opportunities for expansion and growth at Observation.
“Torque will recommence drilling with 5,000m of RC today with at the Paris gold camp, with the aim of extending the known existing mineralized zones, discovering new mineralized structures, identifying additional parallel mineralized targets, and establishing connectivity between Paris, HHH, and Observation prospects.”
Future work programme at Paris Gold Camp
At the Paris, HHH, and Observation prospects, RC drilling is now resuming with a 43-hole (5,000m) programme of in-fill and extensional drilling.
Following completion of this next phase of RC drilling, a second phase of diamond drilling will be conducted to extend Paris mineralization.
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