Vango Mining Limited (ASX: VAN) has drilled further high-grade gold intersections from drilling at the Skyhawk open-pit target as part of its open-pit focused drilling campaign at the company’s flagship Marymia Gold Project in the Mid-West region of Western Australia.
The latest assay results are from 6 reverse circulation (RC) drillholes for a total of 1,014m at the Skyhawk open-pit, as part of Vango’s second-phase of drilling at priority open-pit targets.
Significant gold was intersected in five of the holes including the following wide and high-grade gold results:
o 15m at 3.5 g/t Au from 113m in VSKRC0010 incl. 7m at 6.6 g/t Au from 119m
o 12m at 2.4 g/t Au from 110m in VSKRC0009 incl. 1m at 7.6 g/t Au from 118m
Chairman, Bruce McInnes, said these results are highly encouraging and are supported by several other zones showing the potential for an economic resource in the area below the previously mined laterite material at the Skyhawk open-pit, including;
• 1m at 2.2 g/t Au from 85m in VSKRC0008
• 1m at 1.2 g/t Au from 126m in VSKRC0009
• 4m at 1 g/t Au from 144m in VSKRC0009
• 1m at 1 g/t Au from 141m in VSKRC0010
• 1m at 1.7 g/t Au from 162m in VSKRC0012
• 4m at 1.5 g/t Au from 64m in VSKRC0013
• 1m at 1.2 g/t Au from 81m in VSKRC0013
The intercepts in holes VSKRC009 and 10 are located close to the previously announced result in VSKRC0007, from the first phase of drilling at Skyhawk last year, which returned:
• 16m @ 4.4 g/t Au, from 54m in VSKRC0007, including 6m @ 8.2 g/t Au
These results extend an excellent zone of mineralisation from historical drilling previously reported from Skyhawk:
• 18m @ 2.0 g/t Au, from 76m in DSHRC0023, including 1m @ 8.5 g/t Au
• 16m @ 3.5 g/t Au from 132m in DSHRC0014
• 12m @ 2.5 g/t Au from 65m in DSHRC0004
• 7m at 4.6 g/t Au from 67m in DSHRC0015 •
5m at 6.4 g/t Au from 84m in DSHRC0015
Mr McInnes said Vango’s drilling results at Skyhawk demonstrate the continuation of a significant zone of near-surface gold mineralisation, which has extended the mineralised zone at Skyhawk.
Skyhawk is the first open-pit targeted in the second-phase of drilling at priority open-pits identified in the xompany’s open-pit focused drilling campaign.
Vango has 11 targeted open pits not currently part of the Marymia JORC 2012 resource, which stands at 1.02Moz @ 3.0 g/t Au, in this extensive ongoing drilling campaign. It is designed to add significant near-surface resources amenable to open pit mining, as part of any potential future mining operation at the Marymia Project. For further information please visit: https://vangomining.com/
