A joint venture management company has now been registered, through which both
The initial series of programs on the CTPJV have been presented to the CTPJV Management Committee for consideration. The proposed programs have principally been designed to focus on a series of priority near surface targets associated with both the Groundrush and Jims gold deposits and the Tanami Mine Corridor, which have historically been insufficiently drilled. The programs are scheduled to commence later in 2021 following approval of the presented budget by the CTPJV Management Committee and mobilisation of the drill rigs to site.
At the Groundrush site, 12,000 metres has been proposed to be drilled to: target shallow oxide ore at the southern end of the Groundrush deposit, with a view to maximising the current optimised pit shell extension in this area; target a shallow extension at the northern end of the Groundrush Dolerite; infill the current Groundrush Mineral Resource model down the northern plunge and further test the Western Dolerite, an adjacent, thinner analogue of the major host of mineralisation at Groundrush, the Groundrush Dolerite and target footwall mineralisation to the north of the Groundrush open pit where historical drilling has previously yielded anomalous gold intersections.
Drilling has also been designed to target the down-plunge resource extension of mineralisation at Jims, testing areas of sparse drilling, down plunge and along strike of the known mineralisation west of Jims. Drilling to the northwest of the existing open pit has also been planned to target areas of shallow supergene mineralisation.
More regional drilling activities will be undertaken to extend or delineate resources in the Tanami Mine Corridor, targeting down plunge extensions on the Molech and Suplejack (Crusade) mining leases and to assess areas for primary mineralisation and stratigraphic mapping
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