Drilling To Commence At Large Geochemical Anomaly In WA
Western Gold Resources (ASX: WGR) is preparing to undertake a 1200m RC Drilling programme at the Blob prospect in November within the Gold Duke Project in Western Australia.
The Gold Duke Project contains a combined Mineral Resource estimate JORC-2012 Mineral Resource estimate of 4,570,000 tonnes at 2.0 g/t Au for 293,000 oz Au.
Managing Director, Warren Thorne, said previous owners of project, GWR Group Ltd completed geological mapping and soil sampling at the Blob prospect in 2018 whereby 15 soil samples on a 25m spacing were collected.
This sampling yielded results of up to 130ppb Au and confirmed that the anomaly is related to a laterite hill and is approximately 300m x 150m in area.
An area of dry blowing was found at the northeast corner. Subsequent field mapping and structural interpretation by WGR geologists have confirmed the gold anomaly has parallels to the nearby Comedy King prospect.
Gold mineralisation
Comedy King is associated with both high-grade gold mineralisation within north-east trending quartz veins as well as broader low-grade mineralisation within BIF and ultramafic basement rocks.
The POW has been issued and a heritage survey has recently been completed. An RC drilling programme to test for both north-south and east-west controls of on mineralisation is planned for November 2021.
Recently a total of ~6000m of RC drilling was completed at the Eagle to Emu and Comedy King prospects, with assay results imminent.
Emu to Eagle drilling
• Alteration like the previously intersected mineralisation has been seen in many of the holes associated with hematite-goethite altered Banded Iron Formation (BIF) with zones of quartz veining.
• Lines to the north of Eagle suggest that the mineralisation may be open along the eastern BIF limb.
Comedy King drilling
• Drilling to the south of the historic Comedy King shaft has intersected alteration like the hematite-goethite mineralisation intersected previously together with silicified ultramafics and extensive quartz veining.
• To the south of the project area, the intersection of an interpreted dolerite dyke within one section of drill holes, may indicate a different structural and stratigraphic of the alteration, than is observed in the north of the project area.
Mr Thorne said additionally, a Sub-Audio Magnetics (SAM) survey over 7.7km of Brilliant and Joyners shear zones is completed, and interpretation of the survey is expected in late October with drilling planned to commence on several of the identified targets as soon as possible, subject to regulatory approvals.
“The Blob prospect provides an exciting opportunity to explore an area that has been under – explored for gold and potentially opens up another mineralised corridor within the Gold Duke project,” Mr Thorne said.
“The strength and coherent nature of the gold soil anomaly gives us strong belief in the potential of the area and reinforces our exploration mantra of systematically exploring the Gold Duke Project and producing a pipeline of drill-ready targets.”
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