Essential Metals announced that due to equipment failure and delays in sourcing replacement parts, the most recent delay being caused by the abrupt closing of the border between South Australian and Western Australia, the diamond drill programme underway at Dome North is now likely to complete mid-January. The 13-hole diamond drilling programme is targeting near-surface (oxide/transition) mineralisation at both the Cade and Davy deposits to obtain samples for bulk density measurements and for confirmatory metallurgical test work.