Breaker Resources drilling to confirm Bombora gold discovery
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Breaker Resources (ASX: BRB) informed the market it has commenced RC drilling on the Bombora prospect, part of the company’s 100 per cent-owned Lake Roe project, located east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.
The drilling will be focusing on an exploration target of high-grade gold mineralisation hosted primarily by an 800 metre-thick fractionated dolerite situated in a setting in the Claypan Shear Zone between the Carosue Dam and Karonie gold deposits.
Breaker completed aircore drilling in July/August 2015, which identified a 6km-long gold system under thin transported cover with grades up to 22.44 grams per tonne gold.
It then carried out two subsequent phases of infill aircore drilling in the southern part of the system – the Bombora prospect, which the company said had confirmed the scope for a major new discovery by upgrading the continuity, density and extent of mineralisation.
Breaker has kicked off a 35-hole program of RC drilling at the Bombora prospect with the stated objective of confirming a potentially major greenfields gold discovery.
The drill program is anticipated to be completed by early March 2016, although Breaker indicated this could vary in response to new information.
“Based on the results to date and the wide drill hole spacing used to get them, we believe there is more gold to be found both in the dolerite and in the vicinity of the Claypan Shear,” Breaker Resources executive chairman Tom Sanders said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.
“The scale and continuity is unusual but arguably not surprising given the exceptional structural setting.
“We have only tested a third of the gold system, which appears to be six kilometres long.
“I believe that drilling through transported cover and using geochemistry to scope out gold deposits will become more common given the dearth of remaining outcropping deposits.
“Fortunately, the cover is thin at Bombora and the mineralisation is in a configuration that is conducive to mining should high gold grades persist in the primary (fresh) zone.
“The RC drilling will address this fundamental question.”
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