Ardiden Limited announced the next set of gold assay results from its recent Western Hub drill programme at its Pickle Lake Gold Project. Ardiden's district-scale 1,088km2 gold landholding is located east of Red Lake in the well-endowed Uchi Geological sub-province of north-western Ontario, Canada. A total of 5,939m of diamond drilling has been completed at four brownfield gold prospects at Pickle Lake along a 20km strike length of gold mineralisation, either side of the historic Golden Patricia Gold mine.

The prospect locations along the Western Hub are shown above in Figure 1. Results from an additional 12 holes have been received and are reported within this release from the Dorothy, Tonsil and Esker Prospects. Results have not yet been received for recent drilling at Dobie. Results from an additional 28 holes in total along the Western Hub, are still to be received.

Significantly, at least two additional iron formation units have been identified parallel to the main Golden Patricia unit, providing large step out targets from the main iron unit that hosted the 619,796oz @ 15.2g/t Au production output from the historic Golden Patricia Mine. The company anticipates finalising the remaining assays, which are currently pending, within the September quarter. Once the remaining 28 assays have been received and analysed, the team will finalise a robust geological model which will further assist with the next phase of drilling via an updated understanding of the mineralisation styles along the Western Hub.

Exploration is expected to continue along the entire Western Hub upon the finalisation of the work described above. At the Esker Prospect, drilling so far has only been undertaken on the first of four targeted areas immediately south-east of Barricks Golden Patricia Mine . Each of the remaining three target areas at Esker, identified by detail geophysical and structural modelling, represent a 2km prospective strike length each, underpinning the size and potential within the landholding.

The Dorothy Prospect is situated along the BHFZ and drilling has so far defined significant gold mineralisation over a 3.4km strike length. Dorothy is further subdivided by two major shear zones with the secondary structure hosting the recent drilling and broad mineralisation zone (Figure 4). This secondary structure displays a structurally complex region within favorable greenstone rocks from mafic, intermediate, and felsic volcanics.

The third structural target to the south is overlain by a series of transgressive pop-up blocks with the package younging to the south. The entire Prospect is crosscut within a series of north/north/west to north trending faults and dilation zones. The recent and historical drilling has been conducted into the secondary structure with the other two structures being poorly explored to date and little to no drilling conducted.

Recent intersections highlight the potential of the Dorothy Prospect with a confirmation of a broad zone containing semi-massive to massive sulphide mineralisation reported in this announcement with 30.65m @ 1.57 g/t Au from 32.85m downhole, including 5.0m @ 4.69 g/t Au from 57.0m downhole in DR-22-01 and 17.80m @ 1.46 g/t Au from 70.0m down hole in DR-22-02.