Maiden Drilling Programme Underway At Southern Star
Great Southern Mining Limited (ASX:GSN) has commenced its maiden RC drilling campaign at the Southern Star Project In Western Australia.
CEO, Sean Gregory, said the company is seeking to expand on promising 2017-18 results obtained a previous operator. These included:
- 15m @ 6.5 g/t Au incl. 4m @ 23.3 g/t Au
- 50m @ 1.8 g/t Au incl. 5m @ 9.2 g/t Au and 6m @ 2.9 g/t Au
- 50m @ 1.6 g/t Au incl. 17m @ 3.8 g/t Au
- 34m @ 2.3 g/t Au incl. 12m @ 5.3 g/t Au
- 25m @ 2.5 g/t Au incl. 5m @ 10.7 g/t Au
Mr Gregory, said the commencement of the current drilling was delayed by the mobilisation of our preferred drilling contractor due to the commissioning of drilling equipment taking longer than scheduled.
However, the delay provided additional time for the exploration team to review the considerable historical dataset of drill holes and geochemistry programmes with a view to adding additional drill targets to the scope of the drill programme.
Southern Star is part of GSN’s Duketon Project which encompasses over 450 sq. km of tenements, and tenement applications under exclusive irrevocable option, located in the Duketon Greenstone Belt north of Laverton in Western Australia.
Southern Star is only 4km along strike from the 390koz at 1.2 g/t Au Ben Hur Gold Deposit and further along strike from the >1Moz Au Rosemount Gold Deposit, both mines owned by Regis Resources.
The Project was most recently explored by Duketon Mining Limited in 2017-18 via a program that discovered significant high-grade gold mineralisation. High-grades, up to 60g/t Au, were intersected as were substantial plus 50-gram-metre intersections, and in places more than 90-gram-metre intersections.
Mineralisation occurs within 4m of the surface in places and high-grades are seen throughout the broader mineralisation. These exceptional exploration results were yielded from less than 10,000m of RC drilling completed to date, which highlights the potential for additional mineralisation to be discovered through further drilling at Southern Star. Mineralisation is open both to the north, south and down dip.
“We are excited to be now RC drilling at our recently acquired Southern Star project. The drilling is aimed at building on the previous excellent exploration results from 2017-2018 that were achieved from less than 10,000m of drilling,” Mr Gregory said.
“We also intend to test the first of our regional exploration targets including the nearby One Weight Wonder prospect. Beyond that we are finalising our plans to extend the drilling campaign to other regional prospects across our broader 450 sq. km Duketon Project.”
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