Astral Resources Hits Big Gold at Kamperman Prospect

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Astral Resources (ASX: AAR) reported a big gold hit from an extensional RC drill program underway at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Feysville gold project outside Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.

Astral Resources has received assay results for the first 20 holes of the 31-hole in-fill and extensional RC drill program being carried out at the Kamperman prospect.

Of these, RC hole FRC378 stood out, returning highly encouraging intercepts, including:

12 metres at 7.26 grams per tonne gold from 23m, and
25m at 24.3g/t gold from 68m, including a very high-grade zone of 3m at 177g/t gold from 74m.

Othe results included:

FRC377
12m at 1.96g/t gold from 20m and 5m at 1.25g/t gold from 58m; and

FRC372
4m at 2.95g/t gold from 61m and
11m at 0.96g/t gold from 91m.

Astral has been encouraged by the results from RC holes FRC377 and FRC378 and now has diamond drilling (DD) is planned in this area to better understand the orientation of the very high-grade zone encountered in hole FRC378.

“These latest holes at Kamperman continue to surprise to the upside – showing that there is a potentially very significant high-grade opportunity here that we are yet to unlock,” Astral Resources managing director Marc Ducler said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Previously, FRC243 returned a very high-grade zone of two metres at 188g/t gold from 77 metres, 40 metres to the north-east.

“FRC378 has now returned another very high-grade zone of three metres at 177g/t gold from 74 metres.

“Previous diamond drilling that was completed to better understand the potential orientation of this very high-grade zone was not successful; however, given the potential size of the prize, additional work is warranted.”

 

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