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Spartan Announces Updated Exploration Target for the Never Never Gold Deposit

Spartan targets further significant growth in high-grade resources and value in 2024, supported by recent successful extensional drilling

Spartan Resources Limited (ASX: SPR) (Spartan or the Company) is pleased to advise that it has calculated a new JORC-compliant Exploration Target for the high-grade Never Never Gold Deposit, part of its Dalgaranga Gold Project in Western Australia.


Highlights:

  • New JORC-compliant “Exploration Target” completed for the Never Never Gold Deposit, part of Spartan’s flagship 1.69Moz @ 2.49g/t gold Dalgaranga Gold Project (100%-owned), located in the Murchison Region of Western Australia.
  • The new Never Never Exploration Target set out here is inclusive of the recent Never Never Mineral Resource Estimate (“MRE”), updated in December 2023 to:
    • 5.16Mt at 5.74g/t Au for 952,900oz gold
  • Spartan remains focused on delivering increased shareholder value through high-impact exploration and high-grade resource growth, with:
    • Never Never being one of the highest-grade and fastest growing new gold discoveries in Western Australia;
    • Never Never sitting immediately adjacent to a 100% owned, well maintained, 6-year- old 2.5Mtpa CIL gold processing plant and associated infrastructure;
    • Plus, a technically strong and focused management team with a proven track- record of rapidly growing asset value, rejuvenating existing mines, extending mine lives through exploration success and delivering on targets.
  • An extensive 28,500m drilling program is currently underway, with four diamond rigs and one Reverse Circulation rig currently on site.

Exploration Target

The new Exploration Target comprises:

The potential quantity and grade of the Exploration Target is conceptual in nature and, as such, there has been insufficient exploration drilling conducted to estimate a Mineral Resource. At this stage it is uncertain if further exploration drilling will result in the estimation of a Mineral Resource. The Exploration Target has been prepared in accordance with the JORC Code (2012).

Note: The Exploration target is inclusive of the December 2023 Mineral Resource Estimate released for the Never Never Gold Deposit of 5.16Mt at 5.74g/t Au for 0.95Moz gold1

Exploration Target Basis

During 2023, Spartan drilled 232 holes for 63,943m at Dalgaranga, with 111 holes (48%) for 38,328m (60%) completed at Never Never, growing the MRE from 303.1koz to 952.9koz (214%). To date, Spartan has spent A$14.7M on drilling at Never Never, resulting in a very low discovery cost of A$15.43 per resource ounce.


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