Antipa Minerals Confirms GEO-01 Mineralisation and Identifies New Minyari Dome Targets

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Antipa Minerals (ASX: AZY) reported results from a Phase 2 CY2023 air core drill program completed at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Minyari Dome gold-copper project in the Paterson Province of Western Australia.

Antipa Minerals’ Phase 2 exploration drilling program at Minyari Dome encompassed a total of 178 holes of reverse circulation (RC), diamond core and air core drilling.

The expanded Phase 2 air core drill program consisted of 150 drill holes, which increased the company’s systematic coverage to a 1.6 square kilometres area surrounding the GEO-01 discovery and extended to within 300m of the Minyari deposit.

Results confirm a GEO-01 gold mineralisation footprint increase from 600 to 700m.

Air core gold anomaly extended a further 100m to the southeast:

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1 metre at 4.3 grams per tonne gold from 10m down hole to end-of-hole; and

Infill air core holes intersected significant mineralisation in the southeast, including:

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5m at 1.2g/t gold and 0.08 per cent copper from 12m down hole to end of hole.

Three new gold targets were also identified from very broad spaced air core drill holes.

The Rizzo target, located 370m southwest of the GEO-01 deposit, the T12 target, located 10km northwest of the Minyari deposit, and the WACA East target, located 230m east of WACA and 300m south of Minyari South.

“Our expanded Phase 2 CY2023 air core drill program was designed with the dual purpose of further interrogating the GEO-01 discovery area whilst simultaneously targeting new greenfield discoveries,” Antipa Minerals managing director Roger Mason said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“We are pleased to report that the air core results released today demonstrate the GEO-01 gold mineralised footprint has increased to 700m, with a number of significant, very near surface, gold intersections returned.

“At the same time, results from air core drilling into anomalies near to the Minyari Deposit have successfully produced three new gold targets, which in many cases have returned mineralisation down to the end-of-hole.

“When combined with the results recently released from Phase 3 CY2023 RC and diamond drilling, we are very excited with the outcomes and look forward to upcoming growth and discovery drilling across our Minyari Dome and at our three high-potential Pacman targets.”