Dreadnought Resources Drilling at Illaara

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Dreadnought Resources (ASX: DRE) has commenced a 12 hole RC drill program at the company’s Illaara gold-VMS project outside Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.

Dreadnought Resources’ drilling will commence with six holes spread across the Rodney, Warspite, Bismarck and Reindler’s VMS targets, all of which have been identified to contain outcropping gossans and conductive EM plates.

Drilling will then entail six holes undertaken at Metzke’s Find to infill 250m of strike beneath the deepest workings associated with a bend in the mineralised structure where previous drilling intersected encouraging gold hits.

“Six EM plates with coincident outcropping gossans will be drilled along with holes beneath the deepest workings and coincident structural bend at the Metzke’s Find,” Dreadnought Resources managing director Dean Tuck said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“We have barely scratched the surface at Illaara with over 100 kilometres of prospective VMS horizon and numerous gold corridors at Central Illaara, Metzke’s and Lawrence’s.”

Once the above-mentioned drilling is complete, Dreadnought will undertake additional target definition work within the Illaara Central Corridor, Metzke’s Corridor, Eastern and Western VMS Horizons and at Rocky Dam followed by additional RC drilling in July/August 2020.

 

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Blackstone Minerals Drilling Regional Ta Khoa Targets

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Blackstone Minerals has commenced drilling regional massive sulphide vein (MSV) targets at the company’s Ta Khoa nickel-PGE project in northern Vietnam.

Blackstone Minerals is targeting MSV prospects analogous to the previously mined Ban Phuc MSV, where previous owners mined high-grade ore between 2013 and 2016.

Blackstone’s ground-based electromagnetics (EM) geophysics crew recently generated a 1km long massive sulphide target within a 12km long district-scale exploration corridor, which the company aims to test over the coming months.

Drilling continues at the King Cobra discovery zone (KCZ) at depth and a second drill rig has commenced drilling the district-scale massive sulphide targets that have been generated by Blackstone’s inhouse geophysics crew.

Blackstone’s second drill rig will follow the geophysics crew throughout the Ta Khoa nickel sulphide district, testing high-priority EM targets generated from 25 MSV prospects including King Snake, Ban Khoa, Ban Chang, and Ban Khang.

Historic work at the Ta Khoa Nickel-PGE project highlighted a district of high-grade nickel sulphide targets that have not been tested extensively.

Blackstone intends systematically explore these using modern techniques for broader zones of MSV, initially at the Ban Chang prospect.

“By using our in-house geophysics crew and our own drill rigs, we can cost effectively explore this globally significant nickel sulphide district using modern geophysical techniques to unlock the significant potential of the world-class geology,” Blackstone Minerals managing director Scott Williamson said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“We see potential to increase annual nickel production from the Ta Khoa Nickel-PGE project through targeting high-grade massive sulphide veins to complement the base load nickel sulphide feed to be potentially mined from the Ban Phuc DSS and King Cobra discovery zone.”

 

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Apollo Consolidated Drills Encouraging Gold Hit at Lake Rebecca

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Apollo Consolidated (ASX: AOP) reported on recent drilling results from the company’s 100 per cent-owned Lake Rebecca gold project near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.

Apollo Consolidated received results from two diamond holes drilled as part of an ongoing drilling program at the Lake Rebecca project, both of which tested extensional targets below the Rebecca deposit.

The company’s ongoing extensional drilling continues to demonstrate the strength of the Rebecca mineralised system, which comprises three major sub-parallel structures containing zones of disseminated sulphide hosted gold mineralisation – Jennifer, Laura and Maddy.

The mineralised structures are interpreted to potentially represent limbs of a fold arrangement that has repeated structures in the central portion of the Rebecca deposit.

The Rebecca deposit contains a Mineral Resource of 775,000 ounces of gold at 1.3g/t gold and represents a substantial component of the combined in-situ pit-constrained Mineral Resources of 1.035 million ounces at 1.2g/t gold at the project.

Diamond hole RCDLR0454 was drilled to test a down-dip extensional target below the Maddy structure.

This encountered an intercept of 22 metres at 3.44 grams per tonne gold, including a central high-grade zone of 13m at 5.19g/t gold, including 1m at 32.26g/t gold.

This intercept came approximately 120m below previous Maddy hits and has given Apollo further confidence that mineralisation and potential high-grade zones continue below current Mineral Resources.

“Ongoing diamond drilling will build geological confidence around this intercept, as well as continuing to test down-dip extensions of high-grade intercepts on the Laura structure,” Apollo Consolidated said in its ASX announcement.

“Several additional pre-collar RC holes have been completed in preparation for this work.”

An additional 13 step-out exploration and pre-collar RC holes have been drilled in the Rebecca deposit area and the company is now awaiting assay results for these.

RC drilling will next progress to follow-up promising new gold intercepts encountered at the Duchess NE target and then onto conduct extensional drilling at the Duchess and Duke Mineral Resources.

 

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Kin Mining Drill Results Highlight Cardinia Gold Potential

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Kin Mining (ASX: KIN) reported the latest assay results it has received from recent air-core and Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Cardinia gold project near Leonora in Western Australia.

Kin Mining took receipt of assay results from RC drilling undertaken at the Comedy King prospect and air-core (AC) drilling at Comedy King and the Faye Marie prospects, located approximately 2.7 kilometres from the proposed processing plant site at Cardinia.

The assays results came from 12 Reverse Circulation (RC) holes drilled at Comedy King as well as 104 air-core holes drilled at Comedy King and 51 air-core holes drilled along the Faye Marie.

Better hits included:

Comedy King AC

CK20AC193
4 metres at 113 grams per tonne gold from 0m.

Comedy King RC

CK20RC142
2m at 8.1g/t gold from 37m;

CK20RC146
3m at 1.5g/t gold from 70m; and

CK20RC131
2m at 1.98g/t gold from 7m.

Faye Marie AC

FM20AC019
8m at 3.01g/t gold from 36m; and

FM20AC028
4m at 1.29g/t gold from 20m.

Kin Mining said the results build on the previous air-core drilling results from Comedy King and combine with the recent drilling at Faye Marie, supported by surface gold geochemistry, to demonstrate a coherent zone of gold mineralisation extending over a strike length of up to 3km.

The company also noted the intercept of 4m at 113g/t gold from surface at Comedy King, saying this highlights the potential for the Cardinia area to host extremely high-grade gold.

“Our exploration-driven strategy at the Cardinia gold project is continuing to gather momentum, with the latest batch of results demonstrating the potential for a large and coherent gold system extending from Faye Marie to Black Chief in the south and across to Comedy King,” Kin Mining managing director Andrew Munckton said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“The bonanza grade intercept of 4m at 113 grams per tonne from surface is a standout for air-core drilling, and clearly demonstrates the potential for exceptionally high gold grades at the Cardinia project.

“We are also developing a clearer understanding of the orientation and controls of the mineralisation in the Comedy King-Faye Marie-Black Chief corridor, and this area will be one of a number of areas to follow up in our next phase of drilling.

“In the meantime, a significant number of assay results are still in the pipeline from Cardinia Hill and Lewis East.

“We expect to receive these results over the next week or so with the objective of wrapping up all of the results from this phase of drilling by early June and planning our next exploration campaign thereafter.”

 

Email: info@kinmining.com.au

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De Grey Mining Encounters Hemi Extensions

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: De Grey Mining (ASX: DEG) continues to grow the Hemi gold discovery at the company’s Mallina gold project in Western Australia.

The latest extension to Hemi has come at the Aquila zone by way of further wide, high-grade intersections.

Mineralisation at Aquila remains open at depth along a strike length of 850 metres.

Drilling completed by De Grey to date has demonstrated the overall scale and dimensions of the shallow gold mineralisation across the combined Aquila, Brolga and Crow gold system remains open and currently extends over 1000m in width, 850m in strike and 300m in depth.

The company is currently undertaking step-out extension drilling across all three deposits to extend the limits of mineralisation and to assess the potential for a large tonnage, low strip ratio open pit mining scenario.

Latest results from Aquila include:

HERC030D
139.5 metres at 0.7 grams per tonne gold from 103.89m;

HERC070
113m at 0.8g/t gold from 70m;

HERC039D
27m at 2.7g/t gold from 152m;

HERC041DW1
13.4m at 3.5g/t gold from 266.67m;

HERC042D
2m at 2.5g/t gold from 168m; and

HERC069
22m at 2.4g/t gold from 131m.

“The scale and dimensions of the near surface mineralisation at Hemi continues to impress,” De Grey Mining technical director Andy Beckwith said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“The size of Hemi continues to grow with every drill program and we are also confident that additional new discoveries will be made along this prospective corridor.”

 

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Bellevue Gold Upgrades Deacon Lode Resource

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Bellevue Gold (ASX: BGL) released infill drilling results from the company’s Bellevue gold project in Western Australia.

Bellevue Gold indicated the results would contribute to an anticipated maiden Indicated Resource at the project.

The company reported the results to include “exceptionally high-grade intersections”, achieved at the Deacon lode, where the Inferred Resource now contributes 410,000 ounces at 12.3 grams per tonne gold of the total Inferred Resource at Bellevue of 2.2 million ounces at 11.3g/t gold.

Results highlighting high grades and continuity of the Central area at Deacon, include:

5.3 metres at 54.5 grams per tonne gold from 650.9m;
1.5m at 168.8g/t gold from 651.7m, including 0.5m at 499.1g/t gold;
2.5m at 49.2g/t gold from 527.8m;
10.3m at 10.7g/t gold from 566.9m;
4.3m at 9.1g/t gold from 701.9m;
2.6m at 10g/t gold from 626m;
1.64m at 48g/t gold from 640m; and
3.3m at 22.5g/t gold from 618.1m.

Additional drilling carried out on the Bellevue Peripheral Lodes (Tribune, Viago, Bellevue), returned:

2m at 64.4g/t gold from 609.1m;
2.9m at 36.5g/t gold from 168.6m;
2.4m at 14.4g/t gold from 124.8m;
0.3m at 1,169.1g/t gold from 100m;
5.6m at 7.5g/t gold from 90.4m; and
1.5m at 89.8g/t gold from 424.1m.

“The extremely high grades and the continuity of the mineralisation augur very well for both the upcoming Resource upgrade and the project’s economics,” Bellevue Gold managing director Steve Parsons said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“The Deacon lode is emerging as a repeat of the adjacent Bellevue deposit, which was well-known for its extensive high-grade mineralisation.

“The mineralisation at Deacon is also characterised by consistent free visible gold and high pyrrhotite percentages.”

Bellevue Gold is now working towards dewatering the existing underground mine to provide access to the underground infrastructure for drilling and eventual development.

Geotechnical, metallurgical and mining studies are also well underway.

“Drilling from underground will enable us to drill at twice the pace and significantly less cost than drilling from surface,” Parsons continued.

“Underground access will also allow us to explore the deposit from different drill positions.

“There is more than $200 million worth of underground development within the 28 kilometres of underground workings and this infrastructure is expected to play a key role in minimising capital costs and lay the pathway for a low level of capital intensity to bring the deposit back into production.”

 

Email: admin@bellevuegold.com.au

Web: www.bellevuegold.com.au

 

Auteco Metals Drilling at Pickle Crow Gold Project

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Auteco Minerals (AUT.ASX) has commenced its first diamond drilling program at the company’s Pickle Crow gold project in Ontario, Canada.

Auteco Minerals indicated the program is to target shallow high-grade gold targets the company identified during recent technical work at the project.

The initial exploration program is to consist of 5,000 metres of diamond drilling and is the first systematic exploration conducted at the property in more than 50 years.

Auteco explained the drilling is designed to follow up on multiple high-grade, shallow gold targets within the top 300m that lie outside historically defined resource areas.

“This is an exciting time for the company as we commence the first systematic exploration on the project since the mine closed in 1966 after successfully producing 1.5 million ounces of gold at 16 grams per tonne gold,” Auteco Minerals executive chairman Ray Shorrocks said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“Exploration activities are proceeding in line with 2020 field objectives with maiden drilling targeting high-grade, walk-up drill targets designed to bring new resource areas into JORC compliance.

“In addition, Auteco is working to deliver a maiden JORC 2012 compliant resource for the Pickle Crow mine area.

“This resource will be focussed on the high-grade underground mineable mineralisation at the Pickle Crow deposit that was the focus of profitable mining from 1935 to 1966.

“The Auteco technical team are active in the field, working to prioritise the multiple drill-ready, high-grade gold targets across the 320 square kilometres Pickle Crow gold project area through ongoing geological, structural and geophysical reviews during the current field season.”

 

Email: info@autecominerals.com.au

Web: www.autecominerals.com.au

 

Emmerson Resources Commences Drilling at Kiola Gold-Copper Project

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources (ASX: ERM) has commenced a diamond drilling program at the company’s Kiola gold project in New South Wales.

Emmerson Resources intends to drill a minimum 2,000 metres of diamond drilling to test targets within the 15 square kilometres Kiola Geochemical Zone (KGZ) – an area the company considers highly anomalous gold-copper and historic workings.

No previous deep drilling has been carried out in the area previously, despite strong indications of gold-copper mineralisation from surface.

Kiola is in a good neighbourhood, sitting within the Molong Belt, which hosts the recent Boda copper-gold discovery of Alkane Resources and Newcrest’s Cadia-Ridgeway deposits.

Emmerson ranks the Kiola project highly amongst the company’s expansive portfolio of early stage gold-copper projects.

Recent work has confirmed that the KGZ contains attributes associated with world class porphyry gold-copper mineralisation and is divided into a northern area centred on the Nasdaq skarn, and a southern area around the South Pole, Kiola and Right Hand Creek mine.

Activities have involved around 15-line kilometres of Induced Polarisation (IP) geophysics collected in late 2019 that reinforced the depth potential of the target areas, particularly when combined with the geochemistry, age dates, intrusion fertility plots and geology and taking into account the limited exposure of the Ordovician stratigraphy due to soil cover.

The current diamond drill program is to consist five holes and is expected to be completed in late June 2020 with assay results in August 2020.

The program will in part be co-funded by the $100,000 New Frontiers Cooperative Drilling grant from the NSW Government.

“We are pleased to commence drilling at Kiola after implementing a number of measures to mitigate COVID19 health risks in accordance with state and national protocols,” Emmerson Resources managing director Rob Bills said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“We remain committed to protecting our employees, contractors and surrounding communities and look forward to drill-testing a variety of gold and copper targets across the project area.

“Stage 1 drilling at Kiola will test priority targets within the Kiola Geochemical Zone, a approximate 15 square kilometres area of elevated gold and copper geochemistry, historic copper workings, and skarns that contain gold, copper and zinc.

“There has been no deeper drilling within the zone to test for the source of the gold and copper mineralisation.”

 

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St George Mining Commences Major Mt Alexander Drill Program

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has commenced a multi-rig drill program at the company’s Mt Alexander project, located in the north-eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.

This program is to include reverse circulation (RC) drilling across a range of nickel-copper sulphide targets and diamond drilling testing new conductive features identified by magnetotelluric (MT) and audio-magnetotelluric (AMT) surveys completed earlier this year.

St George explained the new conductive targets are located deeper than the current extent of drilling and believes they have potential to deliver new nickel-copper sulphide discoveries.

RC drilling has already started and will focus on testing shallow targets at the Fish Hook and West End Prospects, as well as completing the resource definition drilling at the high-grade Stricklands deposit.

“We are excited to be commencing this highly anticipated drill program at Mt Alexander,” St George Mining executive chairman John Prineas said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“The shallow deposits discovered to date confirm that the mineral system at the Cathedrals Belt hosts outstanding mineralisation with high grades of nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group metals.

“The MT survey completed this year has confirmed the presence of conductive features beyond the current extent of drilling.

“This new data is a significant breakthrough in exploration at Mt Alexander.

“It has provided a blueprint to the structural framework of the mineral system that will guide our drilling of the deeper targets.

“In addition to drilling these deep conductive targets, we are excited to begin the first ever drilling at the Fish Hook prospect.

“With a high-order soil anomaly coupled with EM anomalism and interpreted ultramafic intrusives, this drilling has the potential to deliver another greenfields nickel sulphide discovery.

“We are also pleased that this drill campaign will include the resource definition at the shallow Stricklands deposit.

“With high-grade mineralisation starting 30 metres from surface, we believe Stricklands can support a low capital cost, high-margin mining operation that we can fast-rack to development.”

 

Web: www.stgeorgemining.com.au

 

Middle Island Resources Racks-up Further Encouraging Sandstone Drill Results

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Middle Island Resources (ASX: MDI) has continued its run of encouraging results from a Phase 1, reverse circulation (RC) drilling program recently completed at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Sandstone gold project in the central goldfields of Western Australia.

Middle Island Resources conducted the Phase 1 RC program, focussing on open pit targets at Sandstone.

The company has subsequently tested around 14 gold deposits and prospects, all within four kilometres of its 100 per cent-owned gold processing plant and the majority on permitted Mining Leases.

The latest results came from 1m assays derived from drilling at the Twin Shafts deposit and Tailings South prospect, along with eight remaining assay results from the Two Mile Hill deposit.

These included an extended intercept of 22m at 1.42g/t gold at the Two Mile Hill deposit, providing further confidence of deepening of the optimum open pit and, therefore, the associated gold processing inventory.

Drilling at the southern extremity of the Twin Shafts deposit identified a modest grade mineralised extension that will still be estimated and included as a maiden Mineral Resource for assessment in Sandstone’s feasibility study update.

Middle Island noted that the proximity of the Twin Shafts mineralised extension to the existing in-pit tailings storage facility means that mining may expand the tailings capacity and waste generated by that mining may be used for a planned tailings dam lift and/or expansion, providing an economic benefit in addition to potential mill feed.

Results relating to the remaining 44 holes of the Phase 1 RC drilling program are anticipated to be compiled and released next week.

These results relate to Sandstone’s Shillington and Goat Farm deposits, the Ridge prospect, and the G2 & G3 gravity targets.

“Given the extraordinary success of the 2020 Sandstone drilling campaign to date, identifying a fifth new deposit was always going to be a stretch,” Middle Island Resources managing director Rick Yeates said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“Despite the anticipation, we are unable to do so on this occasion, but Phase 1 RC drilling results from the remaining deposits and prospects are still being received and compiled.

“Despite this, the revised intercept of 22 metres at 1.42 grams per tonne gold in MSRC304 at Two Mile Hill is extremely encouraging, particularly given its disposition relative to the $2,500 per ounce optimum pit shell.

“While extension of the Twin Shafts deposit to the south is of limited superficial significance, Twin Shafts is not included in the existing Mineral Resources and it will be estimated as part of the updated study.

“The mineralised extension’s proximity to the existing tailings storage facility means that mining may expand the tailings capacity and waste generated by mining may be appropriate to use for a planned tails dam lift and/or expansion, providing an economic benefit in addition to potential mill feed.”

Middle Island recently reported a $4 million capital raising that was brough about by the success of the company’s recent drilling campaign that identified four new deposits.

Requiring a much-expanded Phase 2 RC drilling program in order to bring these new deposits into an Indicated Mineral Resource classification for consideration as Ore Reserves in the updated feasibility study, Middle Island is set to commence a Phase 2 RC program by engaging an additional drill rig.

 

Email: info@middleisland.com.au

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