Aruma Resources Limited announced the completion of its maiden drilling program at the Melrose Gold Project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The Melrose Project is 5km north of the Paulsens Gold Project (acquired by Black Cat Syndicate from Northern Star Resources). Aruma commenced its maiden drilling program at the Project and has now completed the full program of 48 reverse circulation (RC) holes (to depths of around 100 metres) for 4,784 metres, on 10 lines of drlling.

Aruma's drilling was designed to define gold grades and controls on mineralisation along with lithology, mineralisation types, metallurgy and stratigraphy. The first two completed holes have already been sent for laboratory analysis and the remaining will be submitted for assay in the coming week. Results will be released when available.

Drilling targeted the priority Gossan Hill Prospect, located 5km north of the Paulsens Gold Mine. The maiden program followed historic RC drilling at Gossan Hill which returned significant, thick gold intersections in limonite after carbonate, including; 27m @ 0.3g/t Au from surface in hole PGHRC22; 18m @ 0.26g/t Au from 63 including 1m at 1.44g/t from 63m and 11m @ 0.42g/t Au from 8m including 1m at 2.74g/t from 14m. These highly anomalous historic drill results are located in a strong 50ppb gold anomaly, within a favourable structural setting with similarities to the nearby Paulsens deposit.

The target zone was an east-west structure in a folded carbonate-shale-greywacke sequence interpreted as being similar to Paulsens. Aruma's drilling intersected ironstones in the west, intermittent quartz veing and tourmaline-sulhides in the south-east holes on the boundary of the geochemical anomally.