E79 Gold Mines Gets Auger Program Underway at Jungar Flats

THE DRILL SERGEANT: E79 Gold Mines (ASX: E79) has commenced a geochemical sampling program at the company’s Jungar Flats gold project in the Murchison region of Western Australia.

This follows earlier soil sampling, trialling the Ultrafine™ analytical technique, that identified gold anomalism in three of four locations tested.

These three anomalous locations all lie on the interpreted Big Bell Shear and as a result, E79 Gold is undertaking a large-scale soil sampling program to test what it considers a highly prospective corridor.

E79 Gold Mines has kicked off a 3000-plus sample auger program with the aim of testing approx. 40 kilometres of strike of this greenstone belt.

Samples will undergo Ultrafine™ analysis, an analytical technique developed by CSIRO to be able to identify geochemical anomalism.

E79 will complete this auger program this year with results expected during quarter 1, 2023.

“We are excited to commence testing of this largely unexplored greenstone belt, where our earlier trial soil sample program produced anomalous gold in three of the four locations tested,” E79 Gold Mines CEO Ned Summerhayes said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Additionally, historic drilling has identified anomalous gold in early-stage drilling in two locations, which has not been followed up.

“This greenstone belt is a high priority target where the potential host greenstone sequence lies in close proximity to the highly prospective Big Bell Shear which hosts the Big Bell Mine, the largest gold mine in the region.”