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Metal Hawk Limited (ASX: MHK, “Metal Hawk” or the “Company”) is pleased to advise that a new campaign of reverse circulation (RC) drilling has commenced at the Berehaven Project, 20km south-east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australian. Drilling will test multiple new nickel sulphide targets across the project area with a total of 3,000m planned.
- 3,000m campaign of RC drilling has commenced
- Targets include new EM conductors and follow-up drilling of nickel sulphide intercepts at the Torana and Commodore South prospects
The Company identified several late-time conductors from ground moving loop electromagnetic (MLEM) surveys carried out earlier this year across the project area. Drilling to date has focused on exploring along the western Commodore ultramafic trend, with significant nickel sulphide mineralisation identified in RC drilling north and south of the Commodore discovery at the Torana and Commodore South prospects. Whilst the current RC program is continuing to explore along this fertile western ultramafic trend, several holes are also planned to test four MLEM conductors (BVM_09 to BVM_012) further east of Commodore.
Metal Hawk’s Managing Director Will Belbin commented: “We are continuing systematic, rigorous exploration at Berehaven with this next phase of RC drilling. Since the discovery of high-grade nickel at Commodore late last year, the regional work we have carried out on this project has generated several more exciting discovery opportunities for nickel and gold.”
“Considering the proximity to nearby hits of nickel sulphide along strike to the north at the Euston and Blair North prospects, there has been very little exploration carried out in the vicinity of these eastern EM anomalies. Our consulting geophysicists at Newexco have carefully refined and prioritised these drill-ready conductors.”
“We are also going to be drilling more RC holes at Torana, and plans are being prepared for deeper diamond drilling to test the strong off-hole DHEM conductor situated beneath a zone of thick mineralised ultramafic rocks.”
Figure 1. Berehaven Project - EM targets shown in red.
BEREHAVEN REGIONAL
Four (4) late-time bedrock conductors with steep to moderately west-dipping modelled plates, BVM_09 to BVM_12 (Figure 1), are located from 3km to 5km east of the Commodore ultramafic trend, and present as priority untested RC drill targets. The weathering at this central part of the project area is notably shallower than that observed along the Commodore trend, where the effectiveness of surface EM has been limited by the deeply weathered rocks and the transitional nature of the nickel sulphides present.
Several RC holes have been designed to intersect the conductive target zones at between 150m to 220m depth, with follow-up downhole electromagnetic (DHEM) surveys to be carried out in order to detect any conductive responses related to nearby accumulations of massive nickel sulphide mineralisation.
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