Azure Minerals Encounters Early Gold Hits at Barton
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Azure Minerals (ASX: AZS) has encountered healthy gold results from exploration drilling carried out at the Daisy Corner prospect within the company’s 100 per cent-owned Barton project in the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia.
Daisy Corner is in the Kookynie Gold District just 300 metres north of Genesis Minerals’ Puzzle North gold deposit.
Azure’s first drilling program on the Barton project comprised 21 Reverse Circulation (RC) holes targeting northern mineralised extensions of the Puzzle North gold deposit and tested 800m of the prospective granite-greenstone contact to the northwest of the Azure-Genesis tenement boundary.
Azure has interpreted the assays it has received to indicate the mineralised system identified at Puzzle North continues into Azure’s tenement with gold mineralisation intersected in most holes.
Results include:
BTRC0002
4 metres at 0.68 grams per tonne gold from 31m downhole;
BTRC0009
10m at 0.44g/t gold from 55m downhole;
BTRC0010
10m at 0.52g/t gold from 39m downhole, including 1m at 3.98g/t gold from 46m downhole and 8m at 0.59g/t gold from 127m downhole;
BTRC0014
5m at 0.92g/t gold from 1m downhole, including 1m at 3.44g/t gold from 42m downhole and 3m at 0.63g/t gold from 54m downhole; and
BTRC0020
20m at 0.43g/t gold from 17m downhole.
“Given the early exploration stage of the Barton project we’re encouraged to have intersected widespread gold mineralisation in our first drilling program,” Azure Minerals managing director Tony Rovira said in the company’s ASX announcement.
“Surface exploration is continuing, with geophysical surveys and more drilling to be undertaken over the course of this year.”
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