American West Metals Limited (ASX: AW1) has intersected a very thick zone of in the fourth diamond drill hole of the current drill campaign at the West Desert Project in Utah.
Drill hole WD22-03 was designed to test the continuity of strong copper and zinc mineralisation in the eastern portion of the Main Zone of the deposit. The hole was drilled to 550m downhole. WD22-03 intersected a total of 165m of copper and zinc mineralisation including a continuous mineralised interval of 157m, based on visual logging of the drill core.
Managing Director, Dave O’Neill, said the mineralisation is particularly strong in a number of massive sulphide dominant intervals.
He said this drill hole confirms the continuity and coherent nature of strong mineralisation in the Main Zone of the deposit.
“The drilling is continuing to highlight the significant scale and growth potential of the West Desert Deposit.
“The visual observations from WD22-03 show more than 165m of zinc and copper mineralisation in a wide undrilled section of the deposit.
“This is our first drill hole in this part of the ore body and it indicates that a number of the ore lenses in the Main Zone may join in this location to form a thick and coherent body of mineralisation.
“We expect laboratory assays to confirm some high-grade intersections as there are a number of intervals with massive zinc and copper sulphides logged in the drill core.
“We look forward to reporting the assays in the next couple of weeks.”
WD22-03 was designed to extend open intervals of high-grade zinc and copper in the eastern flank of the West Desert Deposit – a key section of growth potential in our resource model.
WD22-03 was drilled on section 289040E where historical drill spacing along this section is over 80m. The hole was drilled to a depth of 550m and encountered over 165m metres of visual and variable
. Drill hole WD22-03 has confirmed the continuation of the Main Zone mineralisation in a key section of the West Desert resource. The upper most interval is approximately 8m thick and hosted within massive dolomite. The interval contains weak to moderate sphalerite and iron oxides as disseminations and veinlets. The main interval of mineralisation is over 150m thick and contains a variety of mineralisation styles.
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