PNG Trenching Programme Continues To Build Promising Gold Picture
Frontier Resources Limited (ASX:FNT) has identified vein continuity within a zone of higher gold grades through geological mapping in its fieldwork programme at the Kimono gold prospect in Papua New Guinea.
The company has completed a total of 12 trenches across the Kimono and Tassy veins where 82 samples have been collected from eight trenches to date. During geological mapping along Suwaitana Creek, 19 rock samples have been collected and ready to transport to Port Moresby for dispatch to assay laboratories in Brisbane. Drill pad locations are being proposed based on the trench and geological observations.
Geological mapping has confirmed the continuity of a mineralised vein system over at least a 350m strike length within a high‐grade section of the Kimono gold vein system where previous rock samples collected by Frontier include 101 g/t Au along with trench results of 10m @ 1.99 g/t Au and 175m further south 1.1m @ 42.7 g/t Au in trench.
The Kimono system of veining has been historically sampled and interpreted to extend over a 3km length along the boundary of the Mining Lease ML104. Mineralised veins commonly dip steeply and are mainly controlled by dominant NW trending structures.
The newly discovered Tassy vein system 300m to the east of Kimono consists of two mapped parallel veins splayed from the main Kimono vein. Trench sampling last year by Frontier intersected 1m @ 15.5 g/t Au.
Frontier geologists have been working together on‐site together with local landowners and landowner chiefs to dig trenches for geochemical sampling. Principal landowners wish for Frontier to continue exploration activities both at Kimono Central and at the nearby Saki prospect.
A cyclone at the start of the fieldwork programme delayed progress and work will now continue to the end of the first week of March. Assay results are expected to start being received in late March.
Rock sampling results obtained by Frontier during the 2020 fieldwork program along the Kimono Vein include 101g/t Au, 80.9 g/t Au and 52.7g/t Au,indicating this is a high‐grade segment related to cross‐cutting structures and intruded compact andesites recently mapped in Trench KC22 & KC23 near Suwaitana Creek .
