Alto Metals Continues Indomitable High-Grade Gold Drive
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Alto Metals (ASX: AME) armed itself for Diggers & Dealers by reporting further gold results from RC drilling at the Indomitable Camp, within the company’s 100 per cent-owned, Sandstone gold project in Western Australia.
Alto Metals completed a second phase of approximately 5,000m of RC drilling at Indomitable, targeting interpreted high-grade structures that it identified from drilling in late 2022 and testing extensions of the existing mineralisation in primary rock.
The latest assay results stem from one-metre photon assays relating to 18 RC holes drilled at Indomitable comprising a total of 3,234m at an average downhole depth greater than 200m.
The drilling intersected thick zones of shallow oxide gold mineralisation and high-grade gold mineralisation in primary mineralisation at depth, including:
Oxide
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15m at 3.1 grams per tonne gold from 32m, including 8m at 5g/t gold from 32m, including 1m at 22.2g/t gold from 33m;
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15m at 2.1g/t gold from 72m, including 5m at 5.4g/t gold from 79m and 1m at 18.9g/t gold from 83m;
Fresh
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11m at 1g/t gold from 159m, including 2m at 2.7g/t gold from 159m;
SRC959
6m at 2.2g/t gold from 193m, including 1m at 6.4g/t gold from 193m; and
SRC948
1m at 11.3g/t gold from 237m and 4m at 2.1g/t gold from 283m within a broad ‘halo’ of 34m at 0.6g/t gold from 275m.
“This second phase of drilling at Indomitable was, for the first time, targeting the interpreted high-grade structures at depth,” Alto Metals managing director Matthew Bowles said in the company’s ASX announcement.
“The drilling has again intersected shallow high-grade gold in oxide including 15 metres at 3.1 grams per tonne gold, including one metre at 22.2 grams per tonne gold, but more importantly has intersected gold mineralisation of up to 10 grams per tonne gold in multiple shallowly dipping interpreted thrust faults in fresh rock at depth.
“Our drilling has shown that mineralisation remains open at depth with higher grades typically observed where these faults intersect the steeper plunging interpreted structures.
“We are awaiting assays for the final seven RC holes of this program.
“Following this we plan to commence diamond drilling for structural information, and continue further RC drilling.”
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