The program covered a contiguous package of tenements covering a strike length of 17km from Hang Glider Hill (HGH) gold prospect (refer LEX ASX release
HGH is located in the north west region of the
The recent auger geochemical program was designed as a first pass exploration technique to screen a contiguous group of tenements covering 71 square kilometres that straddle the interpreted position of the regional scale Mt Monger fault. The Company considers areas around the Mt Monger Fault to be prospective for large gold deposits and hence these areas are a major focus for exploration by the Company.
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The auger drill sampling technique takes a single point sample of a carbonate rich horizon from up to 2m from surface and is effectively a surficial sample. The technique is an effective first pass exploration tool to screen large areas for the surface expression of a shallow bedrock gold system. The majority of the sample points were collected on 50m centres on north east trending lines space 400m apart. A small area of the program was completed on a closer spaced (200m) east west line spacing consistent with an earlier discrete soil sampling program completed by
The auger drilling program was completed in early
Three robust parallel north-south trending gold anomalies (termed C, D &E) that each extend over more than 400-600m in strike length have been outlined south of the Hang Glider Hill prospect. The anomalies are each constrained by results at each auger sample point that exceed 50ppb Au. A peak value of 581ppb Au (0.58g/t Au) comes from anomaly D and is the highest gold result recorded from the program.
The Company considers the anomalies C, D and E to be an exciting new development in the Hang Glider Hill area. The northerly trend of the anomalies is oblique to the westerly trend of the mafic and ultramafic stratigraphy. This may represent the surface expression to multiple northerly trending gold mineralised bedrock structures. Prior drilling (RC and diamond) in the area by WMC in the 1990's targeted the ultramafic stratigraphy for Ni mineralisation but the diamond and RC holes were not analysed for gold. The holes were orientated to the north parallel with the surface gold trends.
A further two anomalies striking roughly north-west are located approximately 2.5km along strike to the south-east of the Hang Glider Hill prospect where diamond drilling by Lefroy in late 2019 intercepted 6.8m @ 1.86g/t Au from 53.7m. The Hang glider Hill prospect is recognised by a similarly discrete +50ppbAu surface gold anomaly.
Anomaly B has strike length of 600m and varies in width from 150m to 300m. The tenor of gold at anomaly B is considered high with several samples exceeding 75ppb gold in the core of the anomaly. The two new gold anomalies are located proximal to the interpreted position of the Mt Monger and Hang Glider Hill Faults and further strengthen the gold prospectivity along this developing corridor.
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