Breaker extends gold trend at Dexter to 32km
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Breaker Resources (ASX: BRB) has conducted reconnaissance auger soil sampling over the northern part of the company’s 100 per cent-owned Dexter gold project in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.
According to the company this activity has identified a 14 kilometre-long gold-in-soil anomaly adjacent to the Yamarna Shear, returning peak values up to 59 parts per billion gold.
Dexter project – interpreted geology. Source: Company announcement
Breaker claims the results increase the overall strike length of gold-in-soil anomalies at Dexter to 32km with the gold trend remaining open to the south.
The best gold-in-soil anomalies were identifed in the northern part of the project, over an 18km distance, which Breaker said coincides with a series of stacked fault bends on and between the Yamarna and Dexter shear zones.
“As soon as we get confirmation of significant results we will progress from aircore to RC drilling and extend the auger sampling to unsampled areas of the project,” Breaker Resources executive chairman Tom Sanders said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.
“It is important to progress sequentially, identify any high tenor areas in the system as early as possible, and develop an understanding of what we are dealing with.”
Breaker has identified the apparent structural control, in conjunction with a gold-mercury-copper-zinc-silver metal association, to indicate a previously unexplored Archean bedrock gold system.
It considers the size, strength and coherence of the gold-in-soil anomalies, in the presence of significant transported cover rocks, indicate the inferred bedrock source is potentially large.
The company has scheduled an 8,000m aircore drilling program to commence in early November to determine the economic significance of the results over the northern 18km of the project.
To facilitate drill targeting, Breaker has already kicked off a program of infill soil sampling, which is nearing completion.
A series of aircore drill traverses will then be planned across the best soil anomalies defined by the infill soil sampling.
“The magnitude and cohesion of the gold-in-soil anomalies at Dexter is unusual considering the thickness of transported cover rocks,” Sanders said.
“By way of comparison, the Tropicana gold deposit, 80 kilometres to the southwest, has 15 metres to 20 metres of transported cover and is associated with a soil anomaly that is approximately 10 kilometres long (using a +3ppb gold contour) with a peak soil value of 31 parts per billion.”