St George Mining Drilling Full Tilt at East Laverton

THE DRILL SERGEANT: St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has a major drill program underway on the company’s its 100% owned East Laverton project in Western Australia.

St George Mining said the drilling is being carried out to test gold and nickel sulphide targets at the East Laverton project with reverse circulation (RC) drilling of gold targets commenced.

St George indicated the multiple gold targets are present on all greenstone belts at the East Laverton project and will be drilled as part of an expanded program of planned drilling.

The company explained that the RC drill rig was unable to complete a drill hole to test a highly conductive EM target at Windsor due to swelling clays in the first 48m encountered from surface.

A diamond drill rig better able to handle the ground conditions, is due at East Laverton next week to drill the 210,000 Seimens EM conductor.

“The powerful EM conductor at Windsor remains untested by drilling,” St George Mining executive chairman, John Prineas said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“We have secured a diamond drill rig at short notice and expect to be drilling this exceptional nickel sulphide target next week.

“The RC drilling of gold targets is progressing well and we are working with our laboratory to ensure a quick turnaround for assays.

“We are pleased to be able to expand the program to test more of our high quality gold targets.”

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