Argent Minerals Limited (ASX: ARD) has received the final drill assay results from the seven diamond drill holes completed over the company’s Kempfield Polymetallic Deposit in NSW.
Following highly successful RC drilling January 2023, Argent has completed a follow-up diamond drilling programme over the Main Zone of the Kempfield Deposit along with two diamond holes over the Colossal Reef Zone and the eastern section of the Henry Zone area.
The goal of the seven diamond drillholes (1,101.5m total) was to extend the new Ag-Pb-Zn zones at depth from the 2023 RC drilling campaign.
Significant results from the diamond drilling include:
- Drillhole AKDD201: 8.4m @ 23.05g/t Ag, 1.55% Pb & 1.93% Zn from 223.9m 2m @ 44.25g/t Ag from 253m
- Drillhole AKDD202: 20.6m @ 19g/t Ag, 1.20% Pb & 1.36% Zn from 172.4m including 4.4m @ 47.86g/t Ag & 1.33% Zn from 172.4m including 8.8m @ 18.1g/t Ag, 2.19% Pb & 2.02% Zn from 181.2m
- Drillhole AKDD203: 2.2m @ 16.50g/t Ag, 1.22% Pb & 3.16% Zn from 171.3m 2.8m @ 35.50 g/t Ag from 296m
- Drillhole AKDD204: 3m @ 35.21g/t Ag, 1.16% Pb & 2.91% Zn from 19m 21.2@ 20.30g/t Ag & 2.43% Zn from 58.8m including 6.6m @ 15.44g/t Ag & 3.62% Zn from 58.8m
- Drillhole AKDD205: 2.1m @ 24.25g/t Ag from 202m 3m @ 20.98g/t Ag from 209m 4.5m @ 22.23g/t Ag from 226m 11.4m @ 33.85g/t Ag from 246m including 3.5m @ 61.90g/t Ag from 246m
Argent managing director Mr Kastellorizos commented: “The newly defined high-grade silver-zinc-lead-gold mineralized zones clearly demonstrate a strong continuation of mineralized extensions at depth within the Kempfield Deposit. These zones of mineralization have clearly demonstrated that the vertical depth of the overall resource has greater depth extensions than previously delineated in the historical drilling spanning from 2008 until 2020. Currently, the company is working on the new constrained 2012 JORC resource estimation which will be released to the market once completed”.
A total of seven diamond drillholes with three diamond tails were completed at Kempfield between February and April 2023. These holes were designed to test the mineralized extensions from AKRC226 & AKRC228 with one hole completed over the Colossal Reef Zone and eastern section of the Henry Zone located NNE of the Kempfield Deposit. The primary sulphide zone within the Kempfield Deposit is composed of mineral assemblages including pyrite, sphalerite and galena hosted within chlorite altered volcanic metasediments and barite lithologies.
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