Black Canyon Confirms High-Grade Manganese Discovery at Wandanya

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Black Canyon (ASX: BCA) reported assays results it claims to confirm a high-grade manganese discovery at the company’s Wandanya project in Western Australia.

Black Canyon received expedited laboratory-based assay results from a Reverse Circulation (RC) drill program undertaken on the project’s the W2 prospect.

Results included:

WDRC032
5m at 33.2 per cent manganese from 4m including 2m at 48.7 per cent manganese;

WDRC031
5m at 33.2 per cent manganese from 1m including 2m at 44.1 per cent manganese;

WDRC027
5m at 32.4 per cent manganese from 4m including 2m at 39.6 per cent manganese; and

WDRC013
6m at 27.7 per cent manganese from 3m including 2m at 42.9 per cent manganese.

The company explained stratabound mineralisation demonstrated thickness and grade consistency over 240m of drilled strike and remains open to the east and north where it has mapped 1.75km of intermittent high-grade outcropping manganese.

Black Canyon has interpreted W2 as stratabound, fault related hydrothermal manganese enrichment representing a new exploration model on the eastern margin of the Oakover Basin.

“The laboratory-based assay results have confirmed the significant high-grade intercepts for the W2 prospect,” Black Canyon managing director Brendan Cummins said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“I am impressed by the consistency of the grades and thickness of the manganese horizon we have discovered and the higher-grade intervals over 40 per cent manganese.

“What is really appealing about this target from an exploration and resource delineation perspective is the benefit of a consistent mineralised horizon that is also associated with hydrothermal grades.

“I am excited by the upside of this new style of mineralisation as we plan our follow-up exploration programs to assess 1.75km of strike to the north and the potential of the manganese horizon to extend to the east.”

 

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