Carnavale Resources (ASX: CAV) has made a new high-grade zone has been discovery in fresh rock following up previous high-grade aircore results at McTavish North at the Kookynie Gold Project in Western Australia,
Nine RC holes were completed at McTavish North. High-grade results include: 11m @ 14.30g/t from 51m in MNRC005 (Including 1m @ 43.3g/t from 52m and 2m @ 44.17g/t from 55m) 1m @ 9.03g/t from 80m in MNRC004 1m @ 8.60g/t from 107m in MNRC004.
“We are delighted to have discovered a new high-grade lode at McTavish North with the first RC drill holes into the prospect,” CEO, Humphrey Hale, said.
“In addition, we are pleased with the results from the second RC programme at the newly discovered McTavish East prospect which continues to deliver high-grade gold hits and grow this prospect.
“In the meantime, CAV hasn’t slowed down and has recently completed aircore and diamond drilling targeting the prospective corridor between McTavish East to Champion South.”
The RC drill programme at McTavish East and McTavish North was managed closely, with drill targets updated regularly as information was received from logging geology and alteration encountered within the RC chips. As a result of this monitoring CAV was able to optimise the exploration program in the field.
The first RC programme at McTavish North has discovered a new, broad, high-grade zone of gold mineralisation located close to surface following up on previous aircore drilling by CAV. CAV will review the geology and geochemistry to plan a follow up programme to expand this new discovery. CAV drilled 16 RC holes at McTavish East to expand the limits of the previously discovered high grade lodes on a 40m spacing down to 250m below surface.
This drilling has outlined the morphology of the large-scale mineralising structure and intersected high-grade gold in the drilling. CAV also drilled three diamond pre-collars, targeting depth extensions to the mineralised structures encountered. and has recently completed the 3-hole diamond drilling program in July 2022, with assay results in Q3 2022.
McTavish North
CAV drilled nine RC holes into the McTavish North prospect during the recent drilling programme. This represents the first RC drilling into the prospect by any company. CAV previously identified a number of gold anomalies in the regolith with detailed aircore drilling.
The high-grade gold anomalies were followed up with RC drilling in this campaign which has resulted in a shallow high grade new fresh rock gold discovery with an intersection of 11m @ 14.30 g/t in MNRC005 from 51m Including 1m @ 43.3g/t from 52m and 2m @ 44.17g/t from 55m.
Next steps
The aircore drilling along the 1.1km long prospective corridor has been completed (figure 1). This program is exploring for repeat structures similar to McTavish East and McTavish North along the large-scale mineralising structure.
Of interest is the low-level gold anomaly that lies along this structure in the transported, alluvial material. A similarly low-level gold anomaly was defined in the regolith above the McTavish East prospect.
All the aircore samples have been submitted to the lab with results expected in Q3 2022. In addition to the aircore programme CAV completed the 3 diamond tails into the McTavish East prospect.
Two holes were designed to extend the mineralisation along the large-scale structure down dip and a scissor hole was drilled across the structure to provide detailed structural information in the high-grade mineralised zone. The diamond drilling will provide important structural and textural information to allow CAV to continue to be successful exploring for the extensions to these high-grade structures at McTavish East and McTavish North.
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