TechGen Metals Limited (ASX:TG1) has commenced drilling at the company’s 100% owned Station Creek and Mount Boggola Projects located within the Proterozoic-aged Ashburton Basin of Western Australia.
The Station Creek Project is located 70km southwest, whilst the Mount Boggola Project is located 75km south- of the town of Paraburdoo.
“It’s great to have the drill rods now spinning at our Mount Boggola Project. It has been a busy quarter for TechGen with drilling programs successfully completed at both John Bull in NSW and Station Creek in WA, and now underway at Mount Boggola,” Managing Director, Ashley Hood, said.
A reverse circulation (RC) drilling program has now been completed at the Station Creek Project in the Ashburton Basin of Western Australia, A total of 12 RC drill holes for 1,636 metres were drilled. The programme was designed to test a series of Induced Polarisation (IP) targets, structural targets and geochemical target at the TA1 – TA4 Prospect areas. The full length of each drill hole has been sampled and samples sent to Laboratories in Perth for assaying.
Following the completion of the Station Creek Project drilling program the drill rig has moved to the Mount Boggola Project and has commenced drilling.
The drilling at Mount Boggola is designed to test three strong and discrete EM anomalies identified by the Company in 2021 via airborne EM and follow-up ground EM programmes.
Drill funding for the Mount Boggola program is assisted by co-funding provided by the WA State Government’s Exploration Incentive Scheme (EIS). The Mount Boggola drilling program is anticipated to take seven – 10 days to complete.
The current VTEM survey in the southern portion of the Company’s Mt Boggola project is targeting base metals – lead, zinc and copper situated on the northern margin of the Mesoproterozoic Bangemall Basin, underlain by the Palaeoproterozoic sediments of the Ashburton Formation. The Bangemall Basin is an intra-cratonic basin lying between the Archaean Yilgarn and Pilbara cratons.
Historically WAMEX recorded malachite-stained gossans occur and remain untested by modern geophysics. Reported (A35154) gossans returned up to 12.5% Cu, 0.3% Pb and anomalous As-Sb-Sn (ranging from 0.03% to 0.1%).
In this area the underlying Ashburton Formation slates are altered with hydrothermal chlorite, as distinct from the regional metamorphic variety and are also strongly silicified for 30 to 40m below the unconformity.
The company looks forward to further details of the current VTEM survey upon completion of data being modelled.
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