Brumby confirms Sixty Sixer mineralisation

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Perth-based manganese and base metal explorer Brumby Resources has received results from a 4000 metre RC drilling program conducted at Sixty Sixer prospect, situated within the company’s 100 per cent-owned Oakover manganese project east of Newman in Western Australia.

 

Source: Company announcement

Brumby said the results have confirmed its expectations regarding the morphology and continuity of manganese mineralisation at the prospect.

The 53 RC hole program was carried out late last year and was designed to test the continuity of manganese mineralisation at the prospect.

According to Brumby the results have indicated the thickness and bulked manganese grade for all downhole intervals of greater than 10m with an average bulked grade of greater than 10 per cent manganese, using a maximum internal dilution length of 2mat greater than 8 per cent manganese downhole.

Using these criteria, Brumby established 39 of the 53 total holes that were drilled contained a minimum downhole thickness of 10m of greater than 10 per cent composite manganese grade, which the company claims to indicate the continuity and thickness of the mineralisation.

Brumby Resources chief executive officer Alison Morley said the results are a significant step towards the company being able to report its first Mineral Resource.

“With mineralisation open to the east and west and only half of the original target area at Sixty Sixer having been drilled, Brumby is in a great position to determine an initial Manganese resource and with further drilling we expect this resource to grow significantly,” Morley said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“There are also numerous other untested regional manganese targets on Brumby’s Oakover tenement that we will follow up later in the year.”

Brumby said it will now undertake an initial Mineral Resource Estimation Study for the Oakover project with results expected in the second quarter this year.