Alto Metals Encounters Broad Gold Mineralisation at Indomitable
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Before the 2022 RIU Explorers Conference had even began, Alto Metals (ASX: AME) reported gold results from drilling completed at the end of last year at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Sandstone project in Western Australia.
Alto Metals carried out the extensional drilling at the Indomitable deposit that forms part of the Indomitable Camp, which is currently defined over a two kilometres strike length and is hosted within the +20km NW/SE Indomitable/Vanguard/Havilah Trend that forms part of Alto’s priority ‘Alpha Domain’ target area.
Multiple, broad zones of gold mineralisation were intersected from shallow depths in step‐out RC drilling at the Indomitable Camp located approximately 15km north‐west of the Lords Corridor.
Latest results include:
SRC 574
21 metres at 2 grams per tonne gold from 46m, including 1m at 14.9g/t gold from 61m and including 1m at 6.3g/t gold from 66m, and 11m at 2.5g/t gold from 92m, including 2m at 7g/t gold from 93m; and
SRC 571
15m at 2.2g/t gold from 44m, including 2m at 13.2g/t gold from 45m and 25m at 1.2g/t gold from 65m, including 1m at 11.5g/t gold from 71m.
RC drilling has also intercepted wide zones of lower grade ‘halo’ mineralisation along strike, to the north‐ west and south‐east, of the main structural trend, including:
SRC 561
21m at 0.8g/t gold from 125m, including 10m at 1g/t gold from 136m.
“At Indomitable we have now defined mineralisation over a strike length of 500 metres, with numerous broad intersections of strong gold mineralisation, encountered from shallow depths, which remain open at depth and along strike,” Alto Metals managing director Matthew Bowles said in the company’s ASX announcement.
“Such an unusually deep weathering profile suggests the mineralisation structures at the Indomitable deposit are long‐lived and extensive, which is encouraging as it indicates the potential for a much larger system.
“RC drilling is planned to commence in the next few weeks, we are looking forward to the results of the IP and gravity surveys and our mineral resource update remains on track for this quarter.
“Our systematic approach to exploration is continuing to deliver and we are excited about what the year ahead can deliver.”
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