RC Drilling To Test 3D-Induced Polarisation Targets In WA
Enterprise Metals Limited (ASX: ENT) has started a 1,500m to 2,000m reverse circulation (RC) drilling programme at the Dixie Gold Prospect in Western Australia to search for gold mineralisation associated with potential disseminated sulphides.
Chairman, Dr Allan Trench, said the RC drilling will test 3D-Induced Polarisation (3D-IP) targets along the Dixie Shear Zone (DSZ) approximately 12 km west of Broad Arrow.
Enterprise believes these high chargeability zones, located at intersections of the Dixie Shear Zone and late brittle northwest trending structures, are likely to indicate alteration zones containing significant pyrite accumulations.
Previous shallow mining and drilling has shown the gold mineralisation in the DSZ to be associated with quartz veining within zones of intensive sericite-carbonate-pyrite-talc-chlorite alteration at the boundary between a komatiite and a gabbro unit.
Limited drilling by previous explorers in the 1980’s and 1990’s was focused on discovery of shallow oxide gold mineralisation, although historical shallow drill results include: 4m @ 20.5g/t Au from 44m (PDX016) and 2m @ 57.1g/t Au from 46m (DRC007)
The Dixie Gold Prospect is located approximately 40 km to the NNW of Kalgoorlie, and 12 km west of Broad Arrow. Moombarriga Geoscience completed the IP survey over the 2.4 sq. km Dixie Prospect tenements earlier this year.
Enterprise’s targets at Dixie are high grade primary gold deposits with plunging shoot geometries.
The Dixie Gold Prospect covers a line of historical gold workings over a strike length of 2.5km. Past shallow underground production from the Dixie Mining Camp is reported to be 6,471oz gold from 4,610t of ore mined at an average grade of 43.5g/t Au.
Previous shallow exploration drilling targeted large oxide gold deposits capable of sustaining a large open pit operation. The prospect has not been effectively tested for structurally controlled, plunging high grade shoots that previous field mapping has identified. Little exploration has taken place since the early 1980’s and has been sporadic in nature.
Enterprise plans is to drill test the Dixie Gold Prospect, targeting several high chargeability anomalies, which are interpreted to be pyritic alteration zones containing high grade gold-quartz-sulphide shoots.
The Dixie Gold Prospect is located approximately 40 km to the NNW of Kalgoorlie, and 12 km west of Broad Arrow. Moombarriga Geoscience completed the IP survey over the 2.4km2 Dixie Prospect tenements between 17 and 22 January 2021. Enterprise’s targets at Dixie are high grade primary gold deposits with plunging
The Dixie Gold Prospect covers a line of historical gold workings over a strike length of 2.5km. Past shallow underground production from the Dixie Mining Camp is reported to be 6,471oz gold from 4,610t of ore mined at an average grade of 43.5g/t Au.
Previous shallow exploration drilling targeted large oxide gold deposits capable of sustaining a large open pit operation. The prospect has not been effectively tested for structurally controlled, plunging high grade shoots that previous field mapping has identified. Little exploration has taken place since the early 1980’s and has been sporadic in nature. Enterprise plans is to drill test the Dixie Gold Prospect, targeting several high chargeability anomalies, which are interpreted to be pyritic alteration zones containing high grade gold-quartz-sulphide shoots.
