Hamelin Gold Limited (ASX:HMG) has commenced diamond drilling at the Fremlins gold prospect within the company’s 100% owned West Tanami Gold Project in Western Australia.
“Fremlins is one of our highest priority drill targets within the West Tanami Project,” Managing Director, Peter Bewick, said.
“Following the grant of the Fremlins tenement in late 2021 we completed a magnetic and radiometric survey and targeting exercise.
“This diamond drilling programme is co-funded through a WA Government EIS drilling grant and it will be the first diamond drilling ever completed at Fremlins.
“Previous drilling along the six kilometre long prospect was predominantly shallow geochemical drilling. Hamelin interprets the geological and structural setting at Fremlins to be similar to Newmont’s giant Callie gold deposit located 100km to the east in the Northern Territory.
“Our exploration programme at Fremlins is focused on the discovery of high-grade gold mineralisation beneath the large scale, near surface gold anomaly defined by previous explorers.”
Background
Previous drilling at the Fremlins prospect is dominated by shallow RAB, vacuum and RC drilling, with no holes deeper than 115m from surface and no diamond drilling. The historical shallow drill programs defined two parallel gold trends over six km in strike with mineralisation interpreted to be focused along the axis of two tightly folded antiforms.
The drilling returned broad (20 – 80m) zones of lower grade mineralisation (0.2 – 0.6g/t Au) with mineralisation occurring to the end of several holes.
The Fremlins prospect displays the footprint of a major gold system with higher grade mineralisation interpreted by Hamelin to occur at structural intersections and flexures in key structures.
Diamond Drilling Programme
Planned diamond drilling is designed to confirm the geological and structural interpretation at Fremlins as well as testing key structural positions for high grade gold mineralisation.
Three diamond holes are planned for a total of 1,200m. Two holes will test the axis of the western antiform and the third hole will test the axis of the eastern antiform.
The three planned holes are located in the central and southern half of the prospect where the folded mafic and sedimentary units are offset by a major regional scale structure. The diamond drill programme will be completed in early September with assay results expected in November 2022.
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