PepinNini Lithium Commences Rincon Salar Brine Sampling

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: PepinNini Lithium (ASX: PNN) is set to commence brine sampling from monitoring boreholes on the company’s Rincon project in Argentina.

PepinNini Lithium said the re-sampling will be conducted to validate the lithium concentration of a resources estimation the company released in 2018.

The company explained boreholes drilled for the resource were converted to monitoring wells and this work is preparatory to pumping testing for flow rates on the Salar.

“The work involves thoroughly cleaning the boreholes of drilling fluids and sampling at specific depths for aquifer horizons,” PepinNini Lithium said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Results would be expected in a month.”

 

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Kin Mining Completes Helens Open Pit Resources Drilling

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Kin Mining (ASX: KIN) announced new results from recent drilling carried out at the Helens prospect, part of the first open pit development proposed at the company’s Cardinia gold project in Western Australia.

Kin mining said the Helens Resource definition drilling has confirmed the location and continuity of the mineralised lodes with results including:

HE19DD292
7.8 metres at 3.4 grams per tonne gold from 13.2m and 3.5m at 2.7g/t gold from 60.5m;

HE18RC293
7.1m at 4.7g/t gold from 45.3m;

HE18DD300
2.4m at 4.1g/t gold from 56.1m; and

HE18RC316
2m at 4.5g/t gold from 18.1m.

The comant declared that an updated Mineral Resource estimate for the Helens deposit is nearing completion along with metallurgical testwork and Feasibilty Stidy final pit design works.

The Helens deposit has a Mineral Resource Estimate of 1.03 million tonnes at 2.14 grams per tonne gold for 70,900 ounces that includes 0.62 million tonnes at 2.18g/t gold for 43,200 ounces of Indicated Resource and 0.41 million tonnes at 2.07g/t gold for 27,700 ounces of Inferred Mineral Resource.

“Resource definition drilling at Helens has focused on confirming the geological interpretation of the deposit and upgrading Inferred Mineral Resources to Indicated Mineral Resources,” Kin Mining said in its ASX announcement.

“This drilling at Helens has shown that the recently updated geology model is robust with all RC and Diamond holes intersecting the target structure(s) and 23 of the 28 holes recording significant lode style mineralisation at the predicted position in the resource model.”

 

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St George Mining Continues Producing Results at Mt Alexander

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) related progress of drilling underway at the company’s Mt Alexander project, located near Leonora in the north Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.

St George Mining recently completed two drill holes – MARC093 and MARC094 – at the eastern margin of the Fairbridge prospect to test a large chargeable anomaly the company has interpreted to be the western extension of the mineralised ultramafic at the Cathedrals prospect.

Both drill holes intersected thick intervals of ultramafic rocks and nickel sulphide mineralisation.

The company said the interim results it has received demonstrate that the mineralised ultramafic dips to the north, with stronger nickel sulphide mineralisation at depth.

A large chargeable anomaly has been modelled to the north of MARC094, at a vertical depth from surface of approximately 250m.

St George is set to commence the first ever drilling of this large anomaly.

“The drill program at Mt Alexander continues to deliver exciting results and further hits of thick nickel sulphide mineralisation,” St George Mining executive chairman John Prineas said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“Initial drill results at Fairbridge fit very well with our geological model for the Cathedrals Belt, which interprets the ultramafic unit dipping to the north with potential for further mineralisation down-plunge.

“This is encouraging for the remaining nickel sulphide drill targets at Fairbridge – particularly the large chargeable anomalies recently identified down plunge of the known mineralisation at the Cathedrals Belt.

“At West End, the downhole EM surveys continue to identify conductive material.

“This supports the potential continuation of the mineralised ultramafic to the west of Investigators and increases our confidence to complete a series of drill holes all the way to the Ida Fault in the west.

“Extensional drilling between Investigators and Stricklands has also delivered success with a new zone of nickel sulphide mineralisation discovered in this previously undrilled 500-metre east-west strike of the Cathedrals Belt.

“This kind of geologically driven and systematic exploration is the foundation for most major discoveries.

“We are very pleased with the positive results achieved already in the current drill program and the potential for more significant results as the drilling continues over the coming weeks.”

 

Website: www.stgm.com.au

 

Bellevue Gold Extends Strike at Viago and Tribune Lodes

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Bellevue Gold (ASX: BGL) reported strike extensions to the Viago and Tribune Lodes within the company’s Bellevue gold project in Western Australia.

Recent drilling undertaken on the Tribune Lode has increased strike to over 1,000 metres where it remains open.

Bellevue Gold said the drilling encountered high-grade mineralisation in the Tribune Mineralised Shear, which has now been extended approximately 350 metres north of the original resource envelope (currently 650m of strike length) and a further 50m south and remains completely open.

Diamond drill core hole DRDD111 returned an intersection of 6m at 24.9 grams per tonne gold from 188 metres downhole indicating further high-grade ore shoots 350m to the north hosted in the Tribune Shear.

This intercept is in the hanging-wall to the historic Bellevue Mine while high-grade mineralisation has also been extended further south with the most southern hole drilled at Tribune.

This hole, DRDD112 intersected 6.5m at 22.2g/t gold from 96m down hole.

Bellevue explained the high-grade lode positions at Tribune are defined by plunging ore shoots controlled by fold axes within the shear zone.

These folds at Tribune have an analogous fold asymmetry and plunge lineation to mineralisation at the Bellevue lode located just 300m to the east.

Other drilling has confirmed the Viago Lode discovery by doubling its strike length to 1,400m also remaining open both north and south.

First pass broadly spaced diamond core drilling has extended the initial resource envelope of 750m strike length by approximately 550m to the north in the hanging wall of the Bellevue Mine and a further 200m to the south.

The previously reported Viago resource is 550,000 ounces at 22g/t gold of inferred category resources over a strike length of only 750m.

A downhole EM survey (DHEM) indicated the continuation of the EM plates into this area, which Bellevue says to be are largely untested.

The company said the DHEM plates are similar to what it had encountered during its first pass drilling when it discovered the Viago Lode.

Follow up drilling will now target these DHEM plates.

Five diamond drill core holes intersected the Viago Lode with visible fine-grained gold present in all drill holes.
The most northern hole (DRDD111) intersected 2.6m at 15.4g/t gold from 397.7m.

Hole DRDD128 intersected 2.4m at 15.4g/t gold from 445.4m.

Hole DRDD114 returned 4m at 14.8g/t gold from 544.6m.

To the south, Bellevue has extended the Viago Lode a further 200m with initial broad reconnaissance step-out drilling.

This drilling to the south has shown the Viago Shear to be more split than the northern Viago Shear, often into two or three mineralised shears associated within a much broader and strongly sheared zone.

Here diamond drill hole DRDD101 returned 3.9m at 8.1g/t gold, including 0.35m at 78.2g/t gold.

Hole DRDD120 returned 1.7m at 34.6g/t gold from 623.7m.

“Since the latest resource estimate upgrade at the ‘Bellevue Surrounds’ in January the drill rigs have moved from Bellevue Surrounds resource area and have commenced step-out extensional drilling at the Viago, Tribune and Bellevue Lodes,” Bellevue Gold managing director Steve Parsons said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“We are extremely excited by this latest round of first pass step-out drill holes that confirm both Viago and Tribune Lodes extend a significant distance both north and south and also that the high-grade mineralisation remains open.

“The discovery of the Viago Lode continuing to the north is extremely encouraging and we are looking forward to the next phase of drilling that will infill and target the high priority DHEM conductors in this new mineralised area.

“There is a startling resemblance of the Viago North drilling to the initial drilling at the Viago discovery prior to the later infill drilling and drill testing of high tenor DHEM conductors.

“We are continuing with four diamond core drill rigs at site to target high priority DHEM targets at Viago North, resource definition as well as further step-out extension drilling at the Tribune, Viago & Bellevue Lodes.

“The company expects to update the Bellevue project resource estimate in the 2nd Quarter this year.

“Ongoing drill results continue to confirm that the Bellevue gold project is a globally significant high-grade gold discovery.”

 

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Website: www.bellevuegold.com.au

 

De Grey Mining Drilling for Toweranna Resource Potential

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: De Grey Mining (ASX: DEG) has been encouraged by recent drilling results at the Toweranna gold deposit to declare it an initial resource exploration target.

De Grey Mining has commenced a Resource extension RC drilling program at Toweranna, which forms part of the company’s 1.4 million ounce Pilbara gold project (PGP), located near Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

The company has set a corporate goal of increasing overall project resources at PGP to two million ounces by the end of the 2019.

Toweranna is considered one of four highest priority targets, along with Withnell Underground, Mallina and Mt Berghaus, for substantial resource extensions De Grey considers will likely impact the 2 million tonnes per annum PFS it currently has underway.

The Toweranna deposit currently hosts a shallow resource of 2 million tonnes at 2.2 grams per tonne gold for 143,900 ounces (JORC 2012) to approximately 100-120m depth.

Recent assessments by De Grey have determined the Toweranna deposit to be under drilled with potential to extend both the shallow resources to the east within the granite body and to increase resources at depth.

De Grey said further resource extension drilling is warranted to enable the final proposed open pit limits to be accurately defined.

Recent RC drilling intersected mineralisation in both Eastern and Western Zones, with results including:

Eastern Zone

TD002
5.8 metres at 5.79 grams per tonne gold from 140.2m, including 1.6m at 16.04g/t gold from 140.2m; and

TD003
7m at 4.02g/t gold from 8m, including 1m at 22g/t gold from 8m.

Western Zone

TD007
10.4m at 4.93g/t gold from 8m, including 3.25m at 12.51g/t gold from 11m; and

4.8m at 9.94g/t gold from 48.2m.

“Toweranna is growing in stature with every drill hole and the shallow resource potential to 200-250 metres depth provides the opportunity to underpin a substantial step-change in the future open pit dimensions and economics,” De Grey Mining technical director Andy Beckwith said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“This new style of mineralisation in the region demands attention with high priority resource extension drilling underway.

“On the regional exploration front, we are assessing two early stage targets for similar style granite hosted gold, one to the east of Toweranna and another southwest of Mt Berghaus.”

 

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Website: www.degreymining.com.au

 

Excore Resources Hits More Good News at Antoinette

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Exore Resources (ASX: ERX) reported the latest results from RC drilling at the Antoinette deposit within the company’s Bagoe project, that forms part of its Cote d’Ivoire gold projects.

Exore Resources has completed a Phase One RC drilling program at the Antoinette Central discovery of 62 drill holes designed to infill sections to allow for resource definition, and to test for down-dip extensions along with the step-out drilling along strike to the north and south.

The latest shallow, high-grade intersections from Antoinette Central include:

11m at 11.59 grams per tonne gold from 89m;

15m at 9.96g/t gold from 80m;

8m at 10.33g/t gold from 105m;

21m at 4.32g/t gold from 96m;

5m at 15.64g/t gold from 158m;

18m at 3.34g/t gold from 42m;

9m at 5.11g/t gold from 28m; and

4m at 10.41g/t gold from 63m.

“The RC drilling results we are seeing from Antoinette Central continue to reinforce our view that this is shaping up to be a very exciting, high-grade gold discovery,” Excore Resources managing director Justin Tremain said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“With approximately 9,000 metres of RC drilling completed at Antoinette, we are looking forward to receiving further results and undertaking a second phase of drilling in a few weeks.

“In the meantime, the RC and AC rigs are continuing to operate at Veronique and stepping out in Antoinette region to begin testing some of our many targets within the Bagoe project.

“We are looking forward to reporting initial results from the first ever aircore drilling on the Veronique in the coming days.”

 

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Website: www.excoreresources.com.au

 

Black Cat Syndicate Continues Bulong Gold Mineralisation Run

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Black Cat Syndicate (ASX: BC8) has been busy of late at the company’s Bulong gold project, east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.

Black Cat Syndicate announced a maiden JORC 2012 Mineral Resource Estimate at Bulong in February totalling 1.4 million tonnes at 2.5 grams per tonne gold for 109,000 ounce of gold.

Recent activity at Bulong included the first 2019 drilling program designed to extend Resources at the Boundary, Myhree and Trump deposits.

Drilling at Myhree was designed to test the high-grade plunge component to the mineralisation as well as shallow holes to test the north of the deposit.

In total, four holes were drilled returning best results of:

19MYRC001
7 metres at 4.25 grams per tonne gold from 152m;

19MYRC001
2m at 4.75g/t gold from 170m; and

19MYRC004
3m at 1.73g/t gold from 62m.

RC drilling at Boundary aimed to extend mineralisation to the south and to test for a potential new parallel lode to the east of Boundary South.

The program consisted of six holes that followed on from recent diamond drilling.

Best results from Boundary included:

19BORC001
5m at 2.52g/t gold from 57m (Boundary South);

19BORC003
1m at 4.08g/t gold from 90m (Boundary South); and

19BORC005
1m at 3.47g/t gold from 63m (Potential new lode east of Boundary South).

RC drilling undertaken at Trump consisted of six holes that extended the zone of continuous mineralisation at Trump an additional 100m to the north.

“All of these drill results sit outside our current Resource models and show that we are on track to substantially increase Resources during 2019,” Black Cat Syndicate managing director Gareth Solly said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“All Resources remain open along strike and at depth.

“Our next extensional drilling program is imminent.

“Particularly pleasing is the depth extension at Myhree.

“Myhree continues to deliver thick high-grade intersections.

“The current optimised pit shells at Myhree and Trump sit only 50 metres apart.

“Expanding the size of any potential pit at Myhree may well benefit the economics of open pit mining at Trump.”

 

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Website: www.blackcatsyndicate.com.au

 

Musgrave Minerals Continues to Intersect Thick A-Zone Gold

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Musgrave Minerals (ASX: MGV) announced further assay results from diamond drilling underway at the A-Zone gold target at Lake Austin North, near the Break of Day gold deposit within the company’s Cue project in Western Australia’s Murchison district.

Musgrave Minerals explained the second phase of diamond drilling on the A-Zone has to date completed seven holes with gold assay results now received for the first six holes.

The company has now defined basement mineralisation at A-Zone over 500m of strike below an 800m long regolith (weathered rock) gold halo that was identified from aircore drilling.

Although it is developing the geological model, Musgrave noted most of the current phase of diamond drilling at A-Zone has not adequately tested the high-grade target zones due to dip variability along strike and at depth and further drilling is required.

New intercepts include:

19MODD003
295 metres at 0.33 grams per tonne gold from 83.8m down hole, including 6.4m at 3g/t gold from 83.8m;

19MODD002
90.6m at 0.33g/t gold from 152.2m down hole, including 2.2m at 4.83g/t gold from 152.2m; and

19MODD006
70.1m at 0.66g/t gold from 144.7m down hole, including 4.6m at 4.17g/t gold from 149.8m.

“Diamond drilling is continuing to intersect thick zones of alteration and gold mineralisation in the basement at A-Zone where the system remains open along strike and at depth,” Musgrave Minerals managing director Rob Waugh said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“The ongoing focus will be to define the higher-grade zones within the system and drill test the new targets defined by the current lake aircore drilling.

“The supergene gold blanket that sits in the weathered zone is up to 350 metres wide on some sections, so there is the potential for multiple ore positions on each section that are yet to be drill tested.

“We remain highly encouraged by the size of the gold system at Lake Austin North, and as each hole is drilled our understanding of the system increases.”

 

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De Grey Mining Confirms Extensions at Wingina and Amanda Gold Deposits

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: De Grey Mining (ASX: DEG) reported new drilling results from the Wingina and Amanda gold deposits that form part of the company’s Pilbara gold project near Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

The Wingina deposit hosts shallow near surface mineralisation that has previously been drilled over more than one kilometre of strike length and generally down to approximately 200 metres depth.

It has a current resource of 5.49 million tonnes at 1.6 grams per tonne gold for 287,700 ounces with more than 75 per cent of the resource in the measured and indicated categories.

De Grey Mining said its Recent drilling targeted extension to the mineralisation at depth and to the north east along strike.

New results from Wingina include:

WDH015
6.35 metres at 3.37g/t gold, including 0.75m at 12.2g/t gold; and

WDH016
12.66m at 1.75g/t gold, including 0.81m at 10.95g/t gold.

De Grey completed a program of 25 RC holes at the Amanda deposit utilising a specialised RC drill rig capable of drilling shallow angle RC holes in sloping terrain.

This drilling extended mineralisation beyond the resource model and selected holes were drilled to infill portions of the resources model where the previous rig could not gain access.

New results from Amanda include:

AMRC042
14m at 1.06g/t gold from 29m, including 9m at 1.38g/t gold from 32m;

AMRC046
6m at 1.65g/t gold from 56m;

AMRC049
11m at 0.97g/t gold from 33m;

AMRC050
14m at 0.77g/t gold from 30m;

AMRC053
15m at 0.69g/t gold from 73m; and

AMRC054
17m at 0.76g/t gold from 47m.

“Overall, the results indicate mineralisation remains open along strike and at depth and further resource increases can be expected with further drilling,” De Grey Mining said in its ASX announcement.

“Follow up drilling programs at Amanda are currently being assessed.”

 

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Alliance Resources Identifies Nine New Weednanna Gold Targets

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Alliance Resources (ASX: AGS) carried out a 3DIP survey at the Weednanna gold deposit, which forms part of the Wilcherry Project Joint Venture in South Australia.

The JV is between Alliance (81.41%) and Tyranna Resources (ASX: TYX) (18.59%), with Alliance moving to 100 per cent ownership in mid-March.

Alliance Resources had the Three Dimensional Induced Polarisation (3DIP) surface geophysical survey conducted over the Weednanna gold deposit during October 2018 by DIAS Geophysical and Gap Geophysics using the DIAS32 system, which is the leading acquisition technology in this field, to help target further areas of mineralisation.

Observations to emerge from the survey include:

Gold mineralisation is closely associated with chargeability bodies that exhibit moderate to high chargeability (>~10mV/V);

The chargeable bodies extend deeper than 200 metres below the surface; and

There is a strong correlation between high density (from an April 2018 gravity survey), high chargeability and high gold concentrations at Weednanna.

The results of the 3DIP survey defined nine new target zones based on where the high chargeability zones correlate with high density zones and are near, or along strike from, known high-grade gold shoots Alliance has delineated via drilling.

Five out of nine targets are shallow, which the company believes highlights the remaining near-surface potential to substantially grow the mineral resource.

“The 3DIP survey has produced a chargeability model that closely correlates with underlying geological detail/mapping and known gold mineralisation,” Alliance Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“Many of the targets appear to correlate with the margins of the known gold shoots and some have clear structural control observed in aeromagnetic and gravity datasets.

“The highly chargeable zones also correlate well with high density zones identified by a detailed 3D gravity inversion model generated in 2018.

“The 3D inversion model suggests there is clear potential for further discoveries at deeper levels than have been currently tested.

“The NW trend with multiple chargeable centres is bounded by a NW-SE trending fault; this is also known to host gold but has not been thoroughly drill tested to date.”

Alliance indicated ongoing RC drilling programs are planned for late March to continue to grow the size of the Weednanna gold deposit by stepping out from existing gold shoots.

It will analyse the 3DIP survey results further in conjunction with the most recent drilling results and existing geophysical datasets to rank targets and plan drill holes for testing in CY2019.

 

Email: info@allianceresources.com.au

Website: www.allianceresources.com.au