Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it’s off to work we go

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Each week any number of junior exploration plays set out to drill their ground. Here’s a small selection of what’s been happening this week.

Drilling kicked off at Alumbre

Promesa Ltd (ASX: PRA) has commenced drilling a at the company’s Alumbre project in Peru.

The Alumbre project is a gold-copper-molybdenum porphyry system located 70 kilometres southeast of Trujillo in northern Peru.

The company has prepared several drill sites based on the results of geophysics, geochemistry and the surface geology with approximately 2,200 metres of diamond core drilling planned to test several areas of a large geophysical anomaly at down hole depths to approximately 500m.

Promesa said it has conducted substantial work on the Alumbre project including detailed geological mapping, rock geochemistry, ground magnetics, induced polarisation (IP) geophysics and alteration mineral mapping. Indications are that a substantial sulphide-bearing porphyry system exists at Alumbre.

Drilling recommences at Trenggalek

Arc Exploration (ASX: ARX) has recommenced drilling on the Trenggalek project in East Java with its joint venture partner, Anglo American, which is fully funding the program.

The drilling program has recommenced on a possible porphyry target identified at the Singgahan prospect, located about five kilometres east of Jerambah prospect, where results obtained from a diamond hole completed late last year were interpreted to indicate the weaker mineralised margins of a possible porphyry system.

This first hole at Singgahan will test part of a large coincident copper-gold-molybdenum anomaly highlighted in grid-soil and benching results obtained over an altered and quartz-magnetite-sulphide/limonite stockworked diorite intrusion.

Arc said the large surface geochemical anomaly highlighted at Singgahan provides further encouragement for the possible existence of a porphyry system in the project area, which will be tested in the current phase of drilling.

Drilling at Symons Hill commenced

Boadicea Resources (ASX: BOA) has kicked off the company’s first drill program at
Symons Hill located five kilometres north of the Sirius Resources (ASX: SIR) Nova discovery.

The company’s licence (E28/1932) located in the Fraser Range is east of Norseman and approximately 200 kilometres south-east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia and covers an area of 123 square kilometres.

Based on the regional magnetics, Boadicea claims the Symons Hill licence contains the same sequence of rocks which host the Sirius Resources Nova/Bollinger nickel sulphide deposit.

Three lines of drilling are planned and are targeted on a combination of anomalous nickel geochemistry, airborne and ground based EM anomalies and zones of interest based on interpretation of the airborne magnetic datasets.

Approximately 120 aircore holes are planned and will be drilled to allow an understanding of the fresh bedrock and underlying geochemical trends to be established.

The program is expected to take approximately three weeks to complete, with analytical results expected within six weeks.

Rumble fast tracks Zanthus exploration

Rumble Resources (ASX: RTR) has fast tracked its exploration program at its newly acquired Zanthus project in the Fraser Range.

The Zanthus project is located 18 kilometres east of the Nova nickel copper massive sulphide discovery of Sirius Resources (ASX: SIR).

Rumble’s technical team has developed a program to systematically explore the Zanthus project looking to generate high-priority nickel and copper sulphide targets using proven exploration techniques.

Rumble will use the same methodology that recently identified the 2km bedrock EM conductor on its big Red project in the northern Fraser Range.

This first stage of exploration has commenced, which is an orientation ground EM survey consisting of several ground Moving-Loop Electro-Magnetic (MLEM) traverse lines across the project area at station spacings of up to 1km.

The survey is designed to test the conductivity and map the depth of the younger sedimentary rock sequences that overly the Proterozoic basement rocks being targeted for nickel-copper sulphide mineralisation in the area.

Traverse lines will be completed across the project area along existing tracks with the survey expected to be completed within a two week period.

The results of the survey will identify if an Airborne EM survey or ground based EM survey is the next step.