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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Companies getting busy on the drill bit this week include Syndicated Metals, Pioneer Resources, and Enterprise Metals.

Borg Drilling to Commence 

Enterprise Metals (ASX: ENT) has completed a second heritage clearance survey with the Native Title Claimants for the Borg prospect, part of the company’s Doolgunna project  in the Fraser Range region of Western Australia.

As a result a planned RC drilling program can now commence, while a planned moving loop electromagnetic (MLEM) survey at the previously cleared Vulcan – Goodins prospect has now commenced.

The company plans to test the core of the Borg target with eight to 10 RC holes of between 200 to 250 metres depth, although the drill rig now at site has 350m of rods available and holes may be deeper if base metal mineralisation is encountered.

Enterprise described Borg as a large 2.5 kilometre-long polymetallic base metal anomaly which is semi-coincident with a gravity and electromagnetic anomaly.

Enterprise believes the soil anomaly at Borg represents the oxidised expression at surface of a sediment hosted polymetallic massive sulphide body at depth.

Drilling Underway at the Acra gold project

Pioneer Resources (ASX: PIO) announced that drilling has commenced at the Kalpini South gold prospect, one of a number of gold targets at the company’s 100 per cent-held Acra gold project, located northeast of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.

The program consists of two diamond drill core holes, and up to nine reverse circulation (RC) percussion holes designed to test for high-grade primary and supergene gold mineralisation.

The first of the core holes is underway.

The Acra gold project is one of Pioneer’s three key exploration assets.

The other two are the Fairwater nickel project in the Albany Fraser Orogen; and the Blair Dome nickel project between Kalgoorlie and Kambalda. All are within Western Australia.

When the two Kalpini South diamond drill core holes are complete, the drilling rig will mobilise to the Fairwater nickel project, with drilling planned to start during the last week of September 2015.

New Regional Drilling in North Queensland

Syndicated Metals (ASX: SMD) has commenced a new regional exploration drilling program across four high-priority exploration targets the company recently identified within its copper-gold portfolio in North Queensland.

A Reverse Circulation drill rig has been mobilised to the Neptune area within the Mount Remarkable project area and commenced drilling.

Syndicated has recently completed follow-up detailed soil sampling and geological mapping over VTEM anomalies to refine the drill targets after earlier completing a regional airborne VTEM survey across its 100 per cent-owned Northern Hub project.

The overall objective of this program is to delineate additional copper resources within a 10 to 25 kilometre radius of the Barbara copper-gold project, where a Feasibility Study is being progressed by the company’s joint venture partner, CopperChem Limited.

Exploration is targeting both high-grade Barbara-style deposits as well as larger, IOCG-style deposits associated with the Mt Remarkable Fault.