Galan Lithium Releases High-Grade Hombre Muerto West Lithium Resource

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Galan Lithium (ASX: GLN) released the maiden JORC (2012) reported Mineral Resource estimate for the company’s Hombre Muerto West lithium brine project located in Catamarca province, Argentina.

The mineral resource estimation was undertaken by SRK Consulting (Australasia) and was based upon results from drill holes within Galan’s Pata Pila and Rana de Sal tenement holding at Hombre Muerto West.

The maiden Inferred mineral resource for Pata Pila and Rana de Sal came in at 1.08 million tonnes of contained lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) at 946 milligrams per litre (mg/l) lithium (no cut off).

Galan Lithium said the numbers had far exceeded its expectations in terms of grade, impurities and size while increasing its total combined mineral resource by 158 per cent from 685,000 tonnes LCE at 672mg/l lithium to 1.77 million tonnes LCE at 837mg/l lithium.

“We are delighted to deliver a JORC reported maiden Resource estimate resulting in an approximate 1.1 million tonnes of LCE product within the HMW project area,” Galan Lithium managing director Juan Pablo (JP) Vargas de la Vega said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“This Inferred resource helps to consolidate Galan’s Scoping and Pre-Feasibility Study and has exceeded the company’s expectations significantly, further validating the high-grade, low impurity nature of the HMW and Candelas projects.

“With the new combined resource of 1.8 million tonnes of LCE and flexibility of two solid projects, our strategy is now stronger to advance towards commercial development and to demonstrate the economic product viability.

“I look forward to updating investors on the progress of our Scoping and Pre-Feasibility study.”

Galan Lithium signalled further work is to come to better define the synergies of the mineral resources from its Candelas and HMW projects that will include additional drilling within the HMW and the Candelas North project areas to provide better geological definition and mineralisation potential of the aquifers.

Additional works will include the new HMW resource for inclusion in the Scoping and Pre-Feasibility Study which will include base hydrogeological modelling and the investigation of various processing technologies with a focus on traditional evaporation ponds as a precursor to processing.

Galan has recently acquired the option to purchase strategic projects (Del Condor and Pucara de Salar) at HMW from Portofino Resources.

 

Web: www.galanlithium.com.au

 

Emmerson Resources to Drill Kiola Copper-gold Targets

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources (ASX: ERM) is in readiness for an exhaustive diamond drilling program at the company’s Kiola project in New South Wales.

Emmerson Resources signalled it is preparing to commence drilling in April to test targets within the 15 square kilometres Kiola Geochemical Zone – an area it considers to host highly anomalous gold-copper and historic workings.

Emmerson commenced the targeting work in 2017 with its strategic alliance partner, which was then known as Kenex Limited but know called Duke Exploration.

Together the two entities deployed data analytics across the Macquarie Arc with the aim of improving success rates of discovery.

Fundamentally, the approach aimed to better understand the critical controls to porphyry gold-copper formation in the Macquarie Arc and provide a ranked portfolio of potential opportunities.

Emmerson has undertaken systematic exploration across its NSW projects utilising traditional exploration methods and new research from the University of Tasmania Arc Linkage project.

“Systematic exploration at Kiola has defined a number of very exciting drill targets that are based on both traditional exploration methods of geology, geophysics and geochemistry plus the application of new, cutting edge techniques developed by the University of Tasmania’s ARC Linkage Project,” Emmerson Resources managing director Rob Bills said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“Kiola was pegged by Emmerson in 2018 from the application of big data analytics – aimed at utilising multiple levels of independent data to pinpoint the next big discovery in the highly prospective Macquarie Arc of New South Wales.

“Stage 1 drilling at Kiola is within the Kiola Geochemical Zone (KGZ) which consists of approximately 15 square kilometres of very elevated gold and copper geochemistry, old historic copper mines, skarns that contain gold, copper and zinc.

“The target area lacks deep drilling to test for the causative source of the gold and copper.”

Emmerson ranks the Kiola project, in particular the Kiola Geochemical Zone, high in its project portfolio where recent work confirmed the KGZ contains many of the attributes of 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.

Induced Polarisation (IP) geophysics collected in late 2019 reinforced the depth potential of the target areas.

Depending on the visual results from stage 1 drilling, Emmerson indicated these planned drill holes could be extended to provide additional information at depth.

The company signalled its next exploration campaign in NSW is already in the advanced planning stage and will include additional drilling at Kadungle and geophysics at Wellington.

 

Email: admin@emmersonresources.com.au

Web: www.emmersonresources.com.au

 

St George Mining Ready for Major Mt Alexander Drill Program

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) is primed and ready to begin drilling of new targets identified for the first phase of a 2020 drill program at the company’s Mt Alexander nickel-copper sulphide project in Western Australia.

St George Mining will be testing targets it considers to have potential for new discoveries along a 16 kilometres long structural corridor known as the Cathedrals Belt.

New targets to be subject of the drilling include the West End and Fish Hook prospects.

The company explained that these lie under cover and encompass respectively, the western and eastern extensions of the Cathedrals Belt.

St George believes these targets offer excellent opportunities to discover additional nickel-copper sulphide mineralisation.

“This drill program is designed to deliver several important milestones for the Mt Alexander project,” St George Mining executive chairman John Prineas said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities exchange.

“The first ever drilling of priority targets at West End and Fish Hook has the potential to deliver a new discovery.

“We already have four shallow, high-grade discoveries at the Cathedrals Belt – Investigators, Stricklands, Cathedrals and Radar – and we are excited at the opportunity to potentially add to our tally.

“The resource definition drilling of the shallow high-grade deposit at Stricklands is also highly anticipated as we continue to work towards a potential mining operation at Mt Alexander.

“Our target is to deliver a low capex, high profit margin mining proposal for Stricklands.”

St George’s resource definition program at Stricklands will involve RC and diamond drilling with approximately 27 holes planned.

The company intends combining results from these with existing drill data in anticipation of an initial high-confidence resource estimation.

 

Web: www.stgeorgemining.com.au

 

Kin Mining Identifies High-Grade Cardinia Mineralised Zones

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Kin Mining (ASX: KIN) received assay results from aircore (AC) drilling undertaken at the company’s Cardinia gold project in Western Australia.

Kin Mining reported receipt of results from one metre split samples generated by AC drilling it completed in December 2019 at the Cardinia project.

The company explained it collected one metre samples from 4m composite samples greater than 0.1 grams per tonne gold to allow for better definition of the mineralised zones.

Kin declared the results continue to confirm the overall grade of the composite samples and have defined high-grade cores within the wider mineralised zones shown in the 4m composite sampling.

The company is now carrying out a full interpretation of all the recent drilling results in conjunction with previous drilling results and has follow up drilling expected to be commencing later in March 2020.

“The aircore drilling program completed in December 2019 was successful at defining three new deposits at Comedy King, Lewis East and Cardinia Hill where wide intersections of gold mineralisation with areas of high-grade were encountered in four metre composite sampling,” Kin Mining managing director Andrew Munckton said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“The mineralised zones highlighted by four metre composite sampling are now being refined with the one metre sampling.

“At Cardinia Hill, the western half of Comedy King and northern part of Lewis East, a clear pattern is emerging.

“Results have confirmed the higher-grade nature of the mineralisation across generally narrower zones associated with strong alteration, sulphides in the fresh ores and quartz veining.

“The alteration zones around high grade intersections also exhibit mineralisation which is typically lower grade.

“The high-grade zones are being used to enhance the targeting for the upcoming RC drilling program and the proposed step out aircore drilling program scheduled for commencement later this month.

“The success of this first aircore drilling program at defining very significant mineralisation separate to the know deposits at the CGP indicates the Cardinia area contains an abundance of mineralisation that warrants significant drilling.

“There is strong potential to define additional high-grade mineralisation to compliment the Mineral Resources already defined and enhance the economics of the Pre-Feasibility Study completed in August 2019.”

 

Email: info@kinmining.com.au

Web: www.kinmining.com.au

 

Blackstone Minerals Intersects Massive Sulphide Nickel at King Cobra

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Blackstone Minerals (ASX: BSX) announced further Massive Sulfide Vein (MSV) mineralisation at the company’s King Cobra discovery at the company’s Ta Khoa nickel-PGE project in Vietnam.

Blackstone Minerals reported an intersection of 0.55 metres of MSV mineralisation within a 2.5m wide tremolite-rich dyke within a broader 58m down hole intersection of disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation at King Cobra.

The latest results continue Blackstone’s drilling success at King Cobra of delivering shallow intersections of high-grade disseminated nickel sulphide (DSS) mineralisation including:

39 metres at 1.1 per cent nickel and 28m at 1.2 per cent nickel from near surface.

The King Cobra discovery remains open down dip and along strike to the north-west and south-east and has been traced with drilling over 200m of strike length.

“Blackstone is pleased to announce drilling at the King Cobra discovery has intersected massive sulfide nickel within the broader disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation,” Blackstone Minerals managing director Scott Williamson said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“This is the most significant intersection of MSV within the Ban Phuc deposit outside of the known (and previously mined) Ban Phuc MSV.

“The King Cobra discovery is looking increasingly likely to significantly improve the economics of a restart of the Ta Khoa nickel-PGE project.”

Besides advancing drilling of the Ban Phuc DSS deposit and King Cobra discovery zone of the Ta Khoa nickel-PGE project, Blackstone is also well advanced with an initial scoping study evaluating mining and processing options, including potential in-country downstream processing to deliver nickel sulphate into Asia’s rapidly expanding electric vehicle (EV) industry.

The company recently struck a Memorandum of Understanding with Korea’s largest and the world’s second largest, EV battery cathode manufacturer, Ecopro BM Co Limited.

Blackstone is evaluating near mine MSV and other potential DSS targets for drill testing during the 2020 season, as it determines to identify high-grade and further disseminated mineralisation for either an early restart of the Ban Phuc mining operation, or the potential to blend higher grade MSV mineralisation with the larger tonnage DSS mineralisation for processing.

 

Email: admin@blackstoneminerals.com.au

Web: www.blackstoneminerals.com.au

 

Twenty Seven Co Drilling at Rover

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Twenty Seven Co (ASX: TSC) has commenced a follow up RC drilling campaign at the company’s Rover project in Western Australia.

TSC outlined the objective of this second RC drilling campaign as to build on the inaugural program, which encountered encouraging intercepts resulting in the Creasy 1 gold discovery and VMS signature at the Harmonic prospect.

“RC drilling is now underway, with our primary goal to expand the shallow high-grade gold discovery at Creasy 1 and test the VMS potential at the Harmonic prospect,” Twenty Seven Co CEO Ian Warland said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“At the same time the team is focusing on results from the successful AEM survey to get these conductors drill ready, expanding our pipeline of high-quality targets at Rover.”

The AEM survey results Warland refers to identified 13 conductors along 20 kilometres prospective gold strike that is part of the Maynard Hills greenstone belt.

TSC said this emphasises and enhances the prospectivity of the Rover project.

Two conductors were identified at Creasy 2 where RC drilling recently confirmed strong potential for VMS style mineralisation at depth and/or along strike with one intercept hitting a thick zone of highly anomalous zinc.

“Without question, identifying 13 conductors along the Maynard Hills greenstone belt from the AEM survey exceeded expectations,” Warland said.

“This is an exciting development for TSC and delivers a significant pipeline of highly prospective gold and VMS targets.

“As the geology team is at site for the start of the upcoming RC drilling campaign, we have taken the opportunity to reconcile the AEM results with field observations to formulate which targets are to be prioritised for drill testing.

“We look forward to reporting further developments as they materialise.”

 

Email: enquiries@twentysevenco.com.au

Web: www.twentysevenco.com.au

 

SKY Metals Audit of Historic Drilling Provides Priority Targets

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: SKY Metals (ASX: SKY) reported on recent activities at the company’s Cullarin gold and Doradilla tin projects, both in New South Wales.

Drilling results achieved by SKY Metals at the Cullarin gold project that included “outstanding” gold mineralisation intersected in drillhole HUD002, provided the impetus for the company to carry out an audit of historic drillholes at the NSW Government drillcore library at Londonderry in western Sydney.

The audit revealed that a total of 38 drillholes were located at the core library in the area of the Hume Target.

From this stash, SKY has identified ten drillholes as high priority to evaluate the strike of the HUD002 mineralisation and to assess the eastern limb of the soil anomaly north of the hole.

In total, approximately 3,100m of drillcore has been identified as available for sampling.

Most of this drillcore is uncut and, as such, no high precision gold analysis has been undertaken.

SKY has submitted three batches of samples for analysis and expects results soon.

The company has also submitted drill permits for follow up diamond core drilling of the HUD002 intersection, with drilling scheduled for commencement in late March.

“The identification of unsampled drillcore at the Londonderry core library is an unparalleled chance for SKY to fast track the evaluation of the Hume Target,” SKY Metals CEO Mark Arundell said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“Although the drillhole locations are not ideally placed, the data generated from the SKY sampling program will be an enormous benefit in the assessment of the Hume Target.

“Besides the cost saving of over $400,000 in drilling expenses, SKY also benefits in the ability to target the follow up drill campaign of the Hume Target based on the results of the legacy core sampling.”

At its Doradilla tin project, SKY completed RC drilling of multiple targets testing shallow, high-grade tin-polymetallic mineralisation in late 2019 that was designed to test the continuity and extensions to existing polymetallic tin mineralisation at the 3KEL prospect and shallow, high-grade tin mineralisation (as cassiterite) at the Doradilla tin prospect.

Results from the recent drilling include:

3KRC001
17 metres at 1.36 per cent tin, 0.69 per cent copper, 70 grams per tonne indium from 34m;

3KRC002
6m at 1.11 per cent tin, 1.48 per cent copper, 44g/t silver, 65g/t indium from 105m;

3KRC003
10m at 1 per cent tin, 0.8 per cent copper, 53g/t indium from 25m; and

DORC001
11m at 1.04 per cent tin, 0.26 per cent lead from 37m.

SKY considers the intersection of shallow mineralisation at both Doradilla and 3KEL has confirmed the tenor and width of oxide tin mineralisation at the two prospects.

 

Web: www.skymetals.com.au

 

De Grey Mining Encounters Continued Sulphide Mineralisation at Hemi Discovery

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: De Grey Mining (ASX: DEG) reported new drilling assay results from the Brolga Zone within the company’s Hemi gold discovery, located near Port Hedland in Western Australia.

De Grey Mining said the recent drilling had encountered further encouraging sulphide mineralisation observed over large widths and depths.

The company carried out RC drilling on sections 30,560E and 30,720E, respectively located 80m east and 80m west of the original discovery section 30,640E.

The drilling has encountered similar sulphide rich mineralisation on both sections over substantial intervals while defining extensive sulphide mineralisation over 160 metres of strike length.

The company believes the latest gold intercepts continue to extend gold mineralisation on the discovery section 30,640E.

Latest results include:

HEDD001
13 metres at 1.9 grams per tonne gold from 36m (RC pre-collar only)

HEDD001
18m at 2.3g/t gold from 59m (RC pre-collar only)

HEDD001
16m at 2.6g/t gold from 104m in (RC pre-collar only)

“Step out drilling has confirmed immediate strike extensions of the Brolga Zone, providing encouraging indications for substantial potential along strike,” De Grey Mining technical director Andy Beckwith said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“The widths, grades and consistency of mineralisation intersected to date are very pleasing.

“Our geological model is evolving rapidly, and our confidence continues to grow that the strong sulphide rich mineralisation directly relates to gold.

“We have a large volume of assays in the lab and are continuing drilling with three rigs.

“We expect frequent news flow over the coming weeks as we progress drilling on this exciting new discovery.”

 

Email: admin@degreymining.com.au

Web: www.degreymining.com.au

 

Encounter Resources Kicks off Drilling at Lamil Copper-Gold Project

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Encounter Resources (ASX: ENR) has commenced diamond drilling at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Lamil copper-gold project in the Paterson Province of Western Australia.

Encounter Resources completed aeromagnetic and Induced Polarisation (IP) surveys at Lamil in the second half of 2019 that enhanced the company’s geological and structural interpretation of the project area as well as providing compelling new drill targets.

The company also carried out a review of prior gold drilling geochemistry, from which it identified a new drill target – the Gap prospect – with a clear copper-gold-bismuth proximal signature and vector to potentially stronger mineralisation.

The program of up to four diamond drill holes will test multiple IP chargeability anomalies identified in the 2019 survey adjacent to broad zones of copper-gold mineralisation intersected in shallow historical drilling, and the open, broad zone of gold-copper mineralisation at the Gap prospect.

The Lamil project is located near the major gold-copper mine at Telfer, owned by Newcrest.

Shallow drilling 1980s by earlier owner Newmont, targeted a series of magnetic anomalies, and intersected thick zones of strong copper-gold anomalism.

Encounter believes these results have gained some significance thanks to the recent Winu copper-gold discovery made by Rio Tinto and the Havieron gold-copper project operated by Newcrest and Greatland Gold.

Encounter relogged drill core from five holes drilled at Lamil by Newmont that demonstrated zones of pervasive alteration, extensive pyrrhotite development and copper-bearing sulphide from within 50m of surface.

“Recent exploration success has proven the potential of the Paterson Province to host giant copper-gold deposits,” Encounter Resources managing director Will Robinson said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“Lamil has structural context, a proven deposit model and clear targets where shallow historical drilling intersected broad zones of copper-gold anomalism strengthening to bottom of hole.

“This initial program will test three large scale copper-gold prospects in the fertile Paterson Province.”

 

Email: contact@enrl.com.au

Web: www.enrl.com.au

 

New World Resources Commences Antler Activities

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: New World Resources (ASX: NWC) has completed due diligence on the company’s high‐grade Antler copper deposit in Arizona, USA.

New World Resources said the due diligence allows it to commence its maiden field programs on the Antler deposit, on which it executed an agreement in January 2020 providing the right for the company to acquire a 100 per cent interest in the deposit.

New World indicated its immediate objective is to conduct confirmatory and in‐fill drilling at the Antler deposit, within areas where historical drilling has demonstrated mineralisation is present, to rapidly delineate high‐grade, JORC Code‐ compliant Indicated Resources that can be evaluated for near‐term production.

The company believes potential exists to develop a low‐OPEX/low‐CAPEX mining operation in the near‐term, given the deposit’s attributes that include:

High-grades;
Location in a Tier‐1 mining jurisdiction with streamlined permitting protocols;
Good infrastructure;
Past production history; and
Advanced stage of exploration and development.

“After completion of the most recent mining (1970), substantial high-grade mineralisation was delineated immediately below and along strike from the historical workings ahead of the anticipated re‐commencement of production (which never eventuated),” New World Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“The company’s immediate objective is to undertake confirmatory and in‐fill drilling within this known mineralisation to rapidly delineate high‐grade, JORC Code‐ compliant Indicated Resources that can be evaluated for near‐term production.”

New World has already commenced inaugural field programs at Antler that will include an initial 2,500 metres drilling program.

Other activities will involve ground EM surveying to delineate extensional drill targets.

Samples from the drilling will be used for metallurgical testwork and a JORC‐Code compliant resource estimate is expected to rapidly follow the drill program.

 

Email: info@newworldres.com

Web: www.newworldres.com