Blackham Resources re-enters The Golden Age
THE DRILL SERGEANT: The mining team of Blackham Resources (ASX: BLK) has re-entered the Golden Age area of the company’s Wiluna underground gold mine in Western Australia.
Golden Age is a high-grade free milling reef with historic production of 160,000 ounces of gold at 9 grams per tonne.
It has a remaining resource of 0.6 million tonnes at 6.7g/t for 125,000 ounces of gold and has been identified by Blackham as a priority source of high-grade free milling ore for recommissioning the Wiluna gold plant.
Blackham recently received Department of Mines and Petroleum approval to re-enter the Wiluna underground mine, which is the access to Golden Age.
Having re-established the power and ventilation for an inspection of the underground, Blackham’s staff and key technical consultants have verified the Golden Age mining area is in a condition ready for final preparations to commence diamond drilling.
Blackham has sourced an underground diamond drill rig and intends to start a maiden drill program at Golden Age as soon as possible.
The company explained the drilling is in line with its focus on free-milling gold targets and resources within open pit or shallow underground depths, in close proximity to the Wiluna plant and infrastructure and capable of being bought into the early years of the current mine plan.
“Re-establishing access to the Golden Age area of the Wiluna underground mine is another important step to implementing Blackham’s strategy of re-commissioning the Wiluna gold plant on free milling ores,” Blackham Resources managing director Bryan Dixon said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.
The high-grade Golden Age reef will be blended with the base load open pit Matilda mine ore to increase the average grade of the mill feed.
“The Golden Age is just one of numerous high-grade quartz reefs in the immediate vicinity of the Wiluna gold plant.
Golden Age is immediately accessible with established underground infrastructure that will enable mining to commence rapidly on project development approval.”
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