Maiden A/C Programme Highlights Potential Of WA Discovery
Kingwest Resources Ltd (ASX:KWR) has completed a successful maiden aircore (A/C) drilling programme at the highly prospective Goongarrie Gold Project (GGP) located juts 40km from the company’s large Menzies Gold Project in Western Australia.
The company drilled with 381 holes for 10,683m at numerous targets across the project area, with 108 of these holes for a total of 6,799mdrilled at -60 degrees dip and to blade refusal with the objective of fully testing the regolith profile to the top of fresh rock interface.
Assays have been received for only 28 of these holes to date, with mumerous significant gold intervals were intersected, including
- 6m @ 17.2 g/t Aufrom 94m within 38m @ 3.1 g/t Aufrom 62m to end of hole (blade refusal); and
- 4m @ 2.5g/t Aufrom74m within 8m @ 1.3g/t Aufrom 74m.
An additional 273 wide spaced vertical holes for 3,894m were also drilled as “geochemical” holes. These shallower holes were designed to test in-situ material immediately beneath the widespread transported overburden which is common in the area. Selected intervals at the top of the in-situ material were sampled and submitted for low level detection multi-element assays.
Drilling was focused on multiple targets on and around the shallow salt lakes or on clay pans adjacent to the salt lakes The ancient lake sediments are widespread and have inhibited previous exploration efforts as they act as a mask above possible mineralisation.
CEO, Ed Turner, said additional drilling remains to be completed over several of the best targets not yet tested. These include targets under the deeper parts of the lake which will require a customised track mounted aircore rig which specialises in drilling on the very soft and wet lake sediments. This drilling is planned to be completed in the first half of 2021.
“We are very excited with these results from our first pass drilling at Goongarrie which prove that our expectations were well founded and auger well for future success,” Mr Turner said.
“To intersect such high-grade results in our first drill programme is very encouraging and justify Kingwest devoting additional drilling to the GGP in 2021.
“I look forward to receiving the remaining drill results over the next few weeks and planning follow up Aircore and RC drilling to better test the mineralised zones and to search for extensions to these zones.
“In addition, some of our best targets under the lakes remain to be drill tested and we look forward to doing this in the next few months.
“I believe we have a very good chance of making a major discovery within the GGP and it will make a significant addition to our more advanced Menzies Gold Project that is currently undergoing updated MRE’s and a Scoping Study.”
