Cavalier Resources (ASX:CVR) has completed a second drill campaign at its Crawford gold project in Western Australia, which provided important samples for a resource update as well as coarse crush leach test work.
Highlights:
- Targeted drone magnetics program completed for the Crawford and Gambier Lass North Projects.
- Analysis of the programme further highlighted the northern fresh rock ‘Miranda’ target at Crawford.
- 28 holes for 2,381m of reverse circulation drilling completed at the Crawford Gold Project.
- Drilling focused on testing drone-identified near-resource magnetic structures along with further exploration of the recently discovered southern sub-vertical and northern ‘Miranda’ structures.
- Samples have been delivered to ALS Laboratories for assaying and coarse crush leach test work under the supervision of Kappes, Cassiday & Associates Australia.
“Cavalier has now completed its second drill campaign of 28 holes for a total of 2,381m at the Crawford Gold Project,” Executive Technical Director, Daniel Tuffin, said.
“The programme was planned to further investigate the southern sub-vertical and northern fresh rock mineralized structures discovered in our maiden campaign and test near- resource exploration targets resulting from the drone magnetics survey over the extended Crawford corridor.
“Analysis of the high-definition drone survey specifically highlighted the northern fresh rock ‘Miranda’ target, which could represent a deeper source for mineralization in the form of a major structure.
“Excitingly, drilling also provided metallurgical samples to allow the company to begin coarse crush leach test work as part of our ongoing investigation into the potential to mill oxide material at Crawford via heap leaching methods.
“All samples have been submitted for assay. The company will update the market on any material results. Updated geological modelling of the Crawford resource will commence once all assay results have been received.”
Targeted Drone Magnetic Surveys at Crawford and Gambier Lass North:
Drone magnetic surveys were carried out over specific corridors of the Crawford and Gambier Lass North gold projects in order to identify additional areas worthy of drill-testing along strike of known mineralization.
Previous historic geophysical data from the Crawford area identified a lensoidal magnetic feature which is most pronounced to the southeast of Crawford and which extends to the northwest to north- northwest for over 20km. The source of this anomaly is unknown, as it is completely obscured by Cenozoic (and Quaternary) cover. It is likely to represent a sheared antiformal hinge zone juxtaposing lower mafic dominated greenstone units against the Pig Well Graben sequence. Based on their geophysical response, these units may correspond to the same units exposed to the west in the Sunday and Mount Stewart areas and probably represent diorite.
Such areas located in the vicinity of linear broadly NW-trending anomalies are considered to be the most prospective areas within the Pig Well Graben. A coincidence of these structural corridors with known gold mineralization is apparent and represents an important exploration criterion.
Exploration continues to focus on the historic areas of gold anomalism defined in previous work and across two broad styles of gold mineralization represented in the area, of priority being laterite or sub-laterite hosted gold mineralization, coincident with structurally controlled bedrock hosted mineralization (orogenic gold). Examples of this include historic prospects Helena, Christy, Eva, and Crawford itself.
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