S2 Resources Ltd (ASX:S2R) has recently completed approximately 6,500m of aircore drilling at the Zapata target within the Jillewarra Joint Venture in Western Australia, where the company is earning up to a 70% interest.
Assays for this programme are pending. All outstanding assays have also been received for previous Jillewarra aircore programmes conducted at the Revenge target area in central-north of the project and at Western Trend in the southwest.
Zapata Drilling
The Zapata target was identified as an area prospective for gold mineralisation based upon high concentrations of gold pathfinder elements, historic workings and its setting on the northern arm of a major structural wedge which bifurcates the Jillewarra stratigraphy.
S2 has identified multiple structures of interest over a 3.5 kilometres strike, which includes approximately 500 metres of historic workings. Rock chips taken by S2 in and around these workings grade up to 40g/t gold.
The target contains the strongest concentration of orogenic gold pathfinder elements recorded in the Jillewarra belt (including, Ag, As, Te, W, Sb, Cu, Zn and Pb).
Some drilling has been undertaken by past explorers at Zapata, however previous campaigns comprised mainly shallow, vertical holes, of which only four were drilled proximal to the interpreted structure hosting historic workings.
Better intercepts from previous RAB and aircore drilling include:
• 3.0 metres at 2.0 g/t gold from 44 metres to end of hole in JLRB0155
• 4.0 metres at 1.4 g/t gold from 40 metres in JLRB0147
• 4.0 metres at 1.1 g/t gold from 44 metres in JLRB0150
• 4.0 metres at 0.8 g/t gold from 68 metres and 4.0 metres at 1.0 g/t gold from 92 metres in JLRB0090
• 6.3 metres at 0.5 g/t gold from 76 metres, including 1.0 metre at 1.5 g/t gold from 78.1 metres in 88JWD002 (1 of 2 diamond drill holes drilled at Zapata)
S2’s recently completed aircore programme at Zapata comprised 91 holes (6,514 metres) over a strike length of 3.5 kilometres, incorporating four very wide spaced lines (800-1,400 metre line spacing with 50 metres hole spacing) and five wide spaced lines in areas of historic workings (200-400 metres line spacing with 25 metres hole spacing).
Western Trend extended Assa
ys have been received for infill and extensional reconnaissance drilling at the recently discovered Western Trend, located approximately one kilometre west of the Margueritta prospect in the Chesterfield area in the southwest of the Jillewarra.
Better intercepts from extensional drilling include:
• 4 metres @ 4.3 g/t gold from 28 metres in SJWA0346
• 4 metres @ 1.0 g/t gold from surface in SJWA0334 These results sit within a developing gold anomaly trending for ~400 metres in a NNW orientation between historical workings to the north and previous aircore drilling to the south, which included 27 metres at 0.5g/t gold (end of hole), including 4.0 metres at 1.0g/t gold in hole SJWA0102.
The anomalous trend remains open to the north. The Western Trend is one of at least three gold-arsenic trends identified in the Chesterfield area
Multiple gold trends identified at Revenge target
Assays have been received for reconnaissance drilling completed in July this year at the Revenge target in the central-north of the Jillewarra belt.
Revenge was identified as an area of interpreted structural and geological interest where aeromagnetic imagery shows a bifurcation of stratigraphy to the NW and NNW.
Historic workings are present in the area and anomalous gold was previously detected in very limited historic drilling and surface geochemistry.
S2 completed 102 aircore holes (approximately 6,800 metres) on five very broad spaced lines covering a strike extent of approximately 2.7 kilometres.
Results were encouraging with multiple anomalous gold trends identified along shear zones, as well as elevated gold associated with an interpreted diorite intrusion.
Better results above a 200ppb (0.2g/t) gold threshold included:
• 4.0 metres at 1.0 g/t gold from 68 metres in SJWA0265
• 4.0 metres at 0.2 g/t gold from 12 metres, and 4.0 metres at 1.0/t gold from 28 metres and 4.0 metres at 0.2 g/t gold from 48 metres in SJWA0238
• 4.0 metres at 0.8 g/t gold from 80 metres in SJWA0264
• 4.0 metres at 0.5 g/t gold from 72 metres in SJWA0306
• 4.0 metres at 0.4 g/t gold from 44 metres in SJWA0257
• 16.0 metres at 0.2 g/t gold from 48 metres in SJWA0258
• 8.0 metres at 0.2 g/t gold from 16 metres and 12.0 metres at 0.2 g/t gold from 32 metres in SJWA0284
• 8.0 metres at 0.2 g/t gold from 38 metres in SJWA0324
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