St George Mining continues gold drilling at East Laverton

THE DRILL SERGEANT: St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has completed an initial drilling program on the Bristol gold target, within the company’s 100 per cent-owned East Laverton project in Western Australia.

St George has completed seventeen drill holes at the Bristol gold target of RC (reverse circulation) drilling.

The company explained that six of the drill holes at Bristol – BRRC003 to BRRC008 ‐ were drilled to test the bedrock and regolith geology along a gold anomaly that extends for over one kilometre where the gold anomaly is within a broad supergene horizon – typically at around 40 metres depth.

A further eleven short drill holes – BRRC009 to BRRC019 ‐ were completed across the prominent magnetic anomaly to test for supergene gold mineralisation and to determine the bedrock geology.

The company indicated it would consider deeper drilling in this area subject to assay results.

Drilling is also currently underway at the Ascalon gold target, of a program of ten RC drill holes, following up initial reconnaissance drilling by St George, which identified a prospective hydrothermal gold system the company considers could potentially extend over 2,000m.

The follow‐up drilling at Ascalon will test for gold mineralisation along strike to the north‐west and south‐ east of the favourable alteration zones identified by initial drilling.

“The priority gold targets at East Laverton satisfy key targeting criteria for significant gold deposits – including important early fundamental structures that are first order controls on gold mineralisation,” St George Mining executive director John Prineas said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“Our drill programs represent the first ever systematic exploration for gold at these targets and provide an opportunity for an exploration breakthrough in this highly prospective yet under‐explored area.”

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