Battery Minerals Limited (ASX: BAT) has unveiled a broad anomalous copper zone associated with prospective Mt Stavely Volcanics with Aircore drilling defines at the Stavely-Stawell Copper-Gold Project in Victoria, Australia.
Aircore drilling restarted in January 2022 following the Christmas/New Year break and forms a part of a 15,000m programme assessing multiple targets for orogenic gold and porphyry copper-gold mineralisation.
The drilling programme is designed to identify geochemical anomalism to enable ranking of targets for follow-up bedrock drilling. A combined total of 11,846m has been completed, with assays now received from 9,951m of drilling.
Aircore results have defined several zones of interest, including a 1,600m gold anomaly (>0.1g/t Au) at the Nine Mile Prospect and a >800m gold anomaly (>0.2g/t Au) at the Frying Pan, both associated with the regionally prospective Moyston Fault and along strike from the historic Moyston Gold Mine (77koz at 22gpt Au).
Recent results from the Kent Road Prospect (44 holes for 2,196m) have identified a broad anomalous copper zone associated with prospective Mt Stavely Volcanic Complex.
Kent Road AC Drilling
Aircore drilling at the Kent Road prospect included 44 holes for 2,196 m at an average depth of 50m. Drilling typically penetrated 15-30m of transported sand and gravel overlying weathered dacite and minor sediments.
Results identified a broad low-level supergene blanket of copper anomalism >100ppm Cu within the saprolite profile and associated with the Mt Stavely Volcanic Complex.
Recent results are tabulated in Tables 1 & 2 and include:
• 21BATAC148: 1m at 373 ppm Cu from 25m
• 21BATAC163: 1m at 458 ppm Cu from 30m
• 21BATAC185: 3m at 688 ppm Cu from 15m
• 21BATAC169: 3m at 492 ppm Cu from 18m
Aircore drilling activity continues and is focusing on the Frying Pan, White Rabbit, Coxs Find, Cosmopolitan and Rutters Track Prospects associated with the White Rabbit Diorite.
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