Encounter Resources Hits High-Grade Gold at East Thompson’s

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Encounter Resources (ASX: ENR) announced first assay results from a recent RC drill program at the company’s East Thomson’s Dome (ETD) gold prospect in Western Australia.

Encounter Resources said the drilling had encountered high-grade gold mineralisation in the first three RC holes of the 18 hole RC drill program that was designed to test the eastern half of a large (2km long) coincident gold-copper soil geochemical anomaly.

The company said all three holes on the first line of RC drilling (200m spaced holes) demonstrated highly elevated gold at similar depths including:

ETG0044 intersected 16 metres at 0.6 grams per tonne gold from 154m;

ETG0045 finished in 6m at 9g/t gold from 178m to End of Hole (EOH), including 2m at 26g/t gold from 178m; and

ETG0046 ended in 8m at 0.3g/t gold from 140m, including 2m at 0.5g/t at EOH.

“Intersecting high-grade gold in the first drill line of our first RC drill program is a very promising start to drilling at East Thomson’s,” Encounter Resources managing director Will Robinson said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“This program is designed to test part of a two-kilometre long coincident gold-copper soil anomaly located on a large dome located just five kilometres from the Telfer gold-copper mine.

“It appears that much of the shallow historical exploration may have been ineffective and we believe there is potential for a larger picture to emerge here as we progress the drill program.”

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