Great Southern Mining Hits New Southern Star Mineralisation Zone

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Great Southern Mining (ASX: GSN) reported assay results from RC drilling conducted in late-2023 at the Southern Star prospect, part of the company’s 100 per cent-owned Duketon gold project in Western Australia.

Great Southern Mining said the drilling has extended the down dip extent of the main zone of mineralisation at Southern Star, which currently extends over a 700-metre strike to a depth of around 160 metres below surface.

New zones of high-grade gold mineralisation detected up to 1.2 kilometres north of Southern Star along the same magnetic high trend where limited historical, shallow drilling has been carried out.

Intercepts include:

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13 metres at 2.16 grams per tonne gold from 57m, including 3m at 4.39 g/t gold; and

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3m at 4.33g/t gold from 127m, including 1m at 9.94g/t gold.

The Southern Star main zone mineralisation was also extended at depth with further high-grade gold intercepts including:

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2m at 2.74g/t gold from 126m and 13m at 2.52g/t gold from 144m, including 4m at 6.91g/t gold; and

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3m at 1.93g/t gold from 76m and 9m at 3.66g/t gold from 159m, including 6m at 4.63g/t gold.

“This was a small, but targeted drilling program aimed at testing depth extensions and distal targets to the main zone of gold mineralisation already defined at Southern Star,” Great Southern Mining managing director Matthew Keane said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“We are particularly excited about the new zones of mineralisation detected to the north.

“This opens the potential for gold mineralisation along a line of strike some 1.5 kilometres from Southern Star to the tenement boundary with Regis Resources.

“The company is poised for an exciting year of drilling at the Duketon gold project with high-grade drill intercepts to be followed up at the Southern Star, Golden Boulder and Amy Clarke prospects.”

 

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