Potash West identifies Dandaragan targets

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Potash West recently completed a road verge drilling program over the company’s Dandaragan Trough potash project in the Mid-West Region of Western Australia.

The company commenced the 153 hole, 8,300 metre program in November 2011 and completed the final stage in February 2012.

Potash West said the program had identified ten prospective target zones within the Dandaragan Trough potash project over a distance of 140 kilometres between Gingin and Coorow to the north of Perth.

 

Drill-hole locations. Source: Company announcement

The ten targets all contain significant grades of potassium at shallow depth with low overburden ratios.

Potash West said a majority of drill holes penetrated significant thicknesses of Coolyena Group sediments consisting of fine to medium grained glauconitic sandstone, siltstone and claystone.

According to the company the drilling demonstrated near surface grades above four per cent potassium are present confirming primary targets.

The drilling has also generated other target areas spread out over most of the tenement holding, which the company said indicates potential for multiple zones of mineralisation.

Targets generated by the drilling will now be evaluated by Potash West by grid drilling over prospective zones.

This work is expected to commence in the current quarter.

“These results confirm the widespread nature of the potassium mineralisation throughout the Dandaragan Trough,” Potash West managing director Patrick McManus said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“With several target areas to drill out, the company is on track to achieve its target of proving up a 50 to 75 million tonne JORC compliant resource by September 2012.”