Aruma Resources Expands Gold Mineralised Footprint at Salmon Gums

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Aruma Resources (ASX: AAJ) received results from recent drilling completed at the company’s Salmon Gums gold project in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.

Aruma completed 44 reverse circulation (RC) holes that were designed to follow up bonanza-grade gold the company intersected in its previous drilling, of up to 224 grams per tonne gold that it announced in March last year.

The company said the assay results received returned multiple zones of anomalous gold, and expanded the gold mineralised footprint at the priority Iris and Thistle prospects.

Highlights from RC drilling include:

At Iris

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1 metre at 3 grams per tonne gold from 71m;

At Thistle

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1m at 1.3g/t gold from 46m; and

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5m at 0.4g/t gold from 103m.

The drilling identified a new target – the Rose prospect – situated between Iris and Thistle, with multiple gold intersections returned at this new target, including:

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1m at 2.3g/t gold from 27m; and

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1m at 2.1g/t gold from 104m.

“The Salmon Gums gold project has the potential to host a significant mineral deposit,” Aruma Resources managing director Glenn Grayson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“This round of drilling was designed to test our geologic model for gold mineralisation at the project over a considerable strike, and has been successful in intersecting multiple zones of gold mineralisation, which has resulted in the definition of a new target, at the Rose prospect.

“As our understanding of the gold model at Salmon Gums increases, as a next step we plan to undertake targeted diamond drilling in several orientations, to follow up the bonanza gold intersection of 5 metres at 50.2 grams per tonne from our previous phase of drilling and to increase our understanding of what is controlling the high-grade gold.”