EMU NL (ASX:EMU) has identified new anomalous gold and tungsten zones from a comprehensive soil sampling programme at its Badja Project near Yalgoo Western Australia.
Results from EMU’s systematic soil sampling programme completed in late December highlighted numerous gold and pathfinder-element anomalism.
Management says the survey confirms known gold and tungsten mineralisation as well as revealing new prospective mineralised zones untested by drilling along similar geological and structural trends to those found at the Gnows Nest historic gold mine, Monte Cristo and Water tank Hill discovery zones.
“An assessment of the Emu soil programmes, combined with the results of historical surface sampling, was undertaken by Sugden Geoscience. Anomalies were prioritised based on geochemistry, geological and structural factors leading to numerous new priority targets. The priority targets will be drill tested utilising both an Aircore (AC) and Reverse Circulation (RC) rig.
EMU has been fortunate to lock-in the two rigs for the campaign following interpretation of the above work with drilling scheduled to commence mid-April.
“The results of our recent soil sampling programme highlighted significant new zones in otherwise untested areas at Badja delineating a 10km end-on-end prospective structural corridor representing a substantial exploration area whilst the recent attention applied by EMU to the tungsten geochemistry in the Monte Cristo prospect area enlivens hitherto unrecognised opportunities,” Emu management said.
“EMU’s team now has a much fuller appreciation of the controls driving mineralisation at Badja with the possibility of further and imminent discoveries dictating that more drilling is required.”
The follow up 2,500m RC drilling programme will focus on primary targets at Monte Cristo and Watertank Hill. Drilling will test for lateral extensions of the two high grade gold discoveries. Geochemistry indicates the likelihood that the two discoveries are in fact linked as a single continuous lode along strike.
EMU will test this anomaly with fences of AC and RC holes to establish whether the two high grade gold lodes are joined. Should this be confirmed, the high-grade gold endowment in these prospect areas is likely to grow. EMU will target a single fence of RC holes in an area 500m to the west of Monte Cristo where the soil geochemistry has delineated anomalous tungsten.
Any positive results from this drilling will likely lead to an upgrade of the tungsten potential at Monte Cristo; whilst it is too early to postulate the potential for an economically significant tungsten endowment at Monte Cristo, the results of the planned drilling and assay work will be eagerly awaited.
Additional RC drilling will be directed to the Flying Emu prospect, which is located approximately 1,000m northwest and along strike from Monte Cristo discovery. The area is conspicuous for its gold prospectivity with several historic workings, previous nearby anomalous drill results and EMU’s gold-in-soil geochemistry supported by gold pathfinder element geochemistry.
A further two deep RC drill holes are scheduled at the Gnows Nest prospect targeting the saddle zone (located between the north-plunging and south plunging ore shoots) in the Central Gnows Nest Zone. The two holes are planned to intersect the target at approximately 150m depth, providing closer-spaced drill results and directed at confirming the continuation of gold mineralisation between these high-grade shoots.
EMU is expecting first assay results from the RC drilling programme during May 2022.
Aircore Drilling
Regional Anomalous Gold Targets EMU’s systematic soil sampling programme at Badja defined numerous new areas of gold anomalism as well as confirming the locations and extensions of known and established prospects (see Fig 3). The multi-element soil dispersions have been weighted against geology and structural considerations to produce a priority ranking for follow-up AC drill testing.
A 6,500m AC drill programme has been planned to target these priority areas. The AC drilling will be conducted concurrently with the RC drilling. Tungsten at Monte Cristo EMU continues to investigate the presence of high-grade tungsten at Monte Cristo.
Following the release of tungsten trioxide (WO3) results on February 9. 2022, EMU commenced a more accurate tungsten-specific laboratory testing regime.
Final results from an initial 44 samples from three RC holes at Monte Cristo, re-submitted for tungsten-specific total fusion analysis at Nagrom Analytical, are awaited.
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