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Great Boulder Resources (“Great Boulder” or the “Company”) (ASX: GBR) is pleased to provide an update on recent RC drilling at the Side Well Gold Project (“Side Well”) near Meekatharra in Western Australia.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Assays have been received for the final six holes targeting gold mineralisation at Cervelo prospect on the east side of Mulga Bill. Highlights include:
- 4m @ 5.53g/t Au from 18m in 23MBRC038
- 6m @ 4.64g/t Au from 148m, including 4m @ 6.62g/t Au from 148m, in 23MBRC034
- 4m @ 3.24g/t Au from 153m, including 1m @ 8.27g/t Au from 153m, in 23MBRC035
- Diamond drilling program at Mulga Bill is completed, with core processing underway
- Further AC and RC campaigns will commence in July
Assay results have now been received for the final six RC holes targeting gold mineralisation at the newly discovered Cervelo target, located immediately east of Mulga Bill. These are the final results from the Phase 2 RC drilling program at Side Well.
Great Boulder’s Managing Director, Andrew Paterson commented:
“These six holes were targeting extensional mineralisation identified in our recent AC program as announced on April 27. We were looking for near-surface extensions of high-grade veins intersected at depth within the Mulga Bill HGV Zone.”
“Significantly, the intersection of 4m @ 5.53g/t Au from 18m on hole 23MBRC038 is our shallowest high-grade result at Mulga Bill since we started drilling in August 2020. This new zone of mineralisation lies outside the current mineral resource. Shallow mineralisation is particularly important in any potential mining scenario, as any near-surface ounces can provide early cashflow while pushing towards the bonanza grades deeper down.”
“While the holes further east didn’t intersect the same tenor of grade as we see in the HGV Zone, they have confirmed a broad mineralised corridor which was first identified in the AC drilling. We will continue testing this target with more RC holes in the next program.”
“Now that the diamond program is complete, we’ll finish logging and processing the core, then regroup in Perth for some mid-year training with the team before starting the next drilling programs in July.”
FIGURE 1: RECENT RC RESULTS AT MULGA BILL
Six RC holes were drilled in the Cervelo area immediately east of the Mulga Bill HGV Zone, testing positions down-dip from anomalous intersections, as announced in late April. Cervelo is a large target area which remains largely untested by RC drilling.
Hole 23MBRC038 (4m @ 5.38g/t Au from 18m) has intersected a new zone of gold mineralisation very close to surface and above the current 518koz Mineral Resource. The mineralised orientation remains unclear. The deeper part of this hole did not intersect west-dipping high-grade veins, and the shallow AC intersections further east may represent other subvertical lodes not previously identified. A diamond hole has since been completed on the same northing and assays will be released when available.
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High-Grade Gold Confirmed at Bronzewing South
- Partial results received from the diamond tail of drill-hole BWSRC081 with the visible gold zone returning 15.5g/t Au over 0.48m from 416.5m. This high- grade zone is reported within a broader intercept of:
- 8.95m at 1.32g/t Au from 414m, including:
- 0.48m at 15.5g/t Au from 416.5m; and
- 0.55m at 3.52g/t Au from 422.4m.
- 8.95m at 1.32g/t Au from 414m, including:
- Follow-up drilling along strike from these intercepts is scheduled to commence in the coming days to define the extent of the south-trending zone of gold mineralisation with a diamond tail of drill-hole BWSRCD086.
- Drill results indicate the inadequacy of historical air-core drill testing with a significant search space now open on the boundary with the historical Bronzewing Mining Lease.
- Diamond drilling at the Central Target, located ~1.7km to the south of the Eastern Target and within the same structural corridor, has encountered zones of intense locally massive quartz veining associated with brecciation below historical Hammer gold drilling anomalies of:
- 20m at 1.5g/t Au from 120m in drill-hole BWSRC0037, including:
- 8m at 2.4g/t Au from 120m; and
- 4m at 3.9g/t Au from 120m.1
- 20m at 1.5g/t Au from 120m in drill-hole BWSRC0037, including:
- Assay results from the remaining program will be progressively released in the coming weeks.
Figure 1. Photo of massive quartz carbonate veining intersected in drill-hole BWSRCD082 diamond tail at Hammer’s Central Target Zone (213m to 221.5m).
Hammer’s Managing Director, Daniel Thomas, said:
“The confirmation of high-grade gold mineralisation at Bronzewing South is a significant step in our search for an economically viable gold target at our Yandal Gold Project. High-grade mineralisation can be traced with multiple intercepts to the north of our project area, with the mineralised structure interpreted to extend for hundreds of metres.
“We will now look to test this structure approximately 100m further south on our project area. We are very much looking forward to follow-up drilling at the Eastern Target, as we enter a zone without any previous drilling coverage.
“The team is encouraged by the observations in recent drilling at the Central Target and the potential for this corridor to be connected to the Eastern Target drilling some 1.7km to the north. This corridor is largely untested below the ineffectual air-core drilling and, with a prominent shear zone interpreted to connect these targets, it is of high interest to the team in our search for a significant gold discovery.”
Figure 2. Plan view of the Bronzewing South tenement EPM36/854, showing Bronzewing orebodies on Northern Star Resources mining lease, historical Hammer RC drilling intercepts and the structural corridor of interest containing Hammer’s Central and Eastern Target Zones (refer to ASX announcement 9 November 2020).
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