Encounter kicks off diamond drilling at Yeneena

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Encounter Resources (ASX: ENR) has commenced a 9,000 metre diamond drilling program at the company’s Yeneena base metals project in Western Australia.

BM2 zinc prospect (100 per cent Encounter)

Encounter has kicked off its 2014 diamond drill program at the BM2 zinc prospect at Yeneena.

The company said the initial hole in the program will test the up dip position of high-grade zinc sulphide mineralisation it previously intersected in hole EPT1854, which was drilled at the end of the 2013 drill campaign, returning:

0.7 metres at 36.5 per cent zinc from 430.05 metres.
 
The current diamond hole EPT1855 is targeting mineralised carbonate and shale contact 100m up dip from EPT1854.

This targeted contact is located 100m down dip of a broad zone of iron-manganese oxide material that was intersected in EPT1831.

 

BM7 Cross Section 7539400mN with planned diamond hole traces. Source: Company announcement

 

BM7 Copper Prospect (Antofagasta Earning in)

Last year exploration work on the BM7 prospect outlined a 6km by 3km copper system that remains open to the south.
 
The final diamond hole in 2013, EPT1719, intersected a 5.3 metre zone, with locally massive copper sulphides forming as breccia cement near the upper boundary of a narrow carbonate unit.

This zone returned an assay of:

5.3m at 2.5 per cent copper from 387.6m including 0.7m at 10.7 per cent copper from 388.6m.

“The initial three diamond holes at BM7 are planned to test the area down dip and to the east of high-grade copper sulphide mineralisation in EPT1719,” Encounter Resources said in its ASX announcement.
 
“The initial three 800 metre spaced holes have been designed to confirm the broad scale geological model and provide lithogeochemical and structural vectors to high grade copper sulphide mineralisation.

“This initial drilling will also provide the first diamond drilling at the BM7 East regolith anomaly.

“This is a late rally extensive plus-five per cent copper anomaly that extends over two kilometres in strike.

“The planned exploration under the Antofagasta earn in agreement during the June 2014 quarter includes 4,000 metres of diamond drilling and 5,500 metres of aircore/RC drilling.”

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