Musgrave Minerals moves on Moorilyanna

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Mineral explorer Musgrave Minerals has commenced a program of aircore drilling at its 100% owned Moorilyanna project.

Moorilyanna is located on the eastern edge of the Musgrave Geological Province and sits just 40 kilometres west of the Stuart Highway and Adelaide to Darwin railway line, in South Australia.

The aircore drilling program will test six strong copper-gold-silver targets Musgrave has identified from mapping and sampling activities.

The drilling program will consist of approximately 120 drill holes drilled through the regolith profile terminating in fresh rock for a total of more than 4,000m.

Drilling depths are expected to vary from 20 to 50m with first assay results expected to be received in late June.

Musgrave Minerals identified the mineralisation during field reconnaissance in late 2010 with surface rock chip samples returning values of up to 4.95% copper, 0.61 grams per tonne gold and 9.6g/t silver.
 
The mineralisation is hosted within a highly altered mafic dyke in an area of sparse subcrop and shallow sand cover and be traced over a strike extent of more than 6km within the main system.

“This is our maiden drilling program and an excellent first step just three weeks after listing,” Musgrave Minerals managing director Rob Waugh said in an announcement.

“The team is in the field and looking forward to first results in late June.

“Additional programs will commence shortly including an airborne EM survey and mobilisation of a second rig to drill our nickel-copper targets at Lyta.”