St George Mining Reports High-Grades From Cathedrals

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) released results for the latest drilling at the Cathedrals prospect, within the company’s Mt Alexander project in Western Australia.

St George Mining reported the results include some of the best intersections of nickel-copper-cobalt-PGE mineralisation to date at the Mt Alexander project.

Seven diamond drill holes were completed at the Cathedrals prospect with all successfully intersecting mineralised ultramafic.

New intersections of high grade mineralisation at Cathedrals are:

MAD56
7.5 metres at 3.90 per cent nickel, 1.74 per cent copper, 0.12 per cent cobalt and 3.32 grams per tonne total PGEs from 57.8m, including 3.15m at 6.36 per cent nickel, 2.92 per cent copper, 0.2 per cent cobalt and 5.03g/t total PGEs from 61.81m;

MAD55
4.28m at 2.75 per cent nickel, 1.21 per cent copper, 0.09 per cent cobalt and 2.59g/t total PGEs from 60.67m, including 1.05m at 5.91 per cent nickel, 2.63 per cent copper, 0.21 per cent cobalt and 2.57g/t total PGEs from 63.9m;

MAD53
7.52m at 2.85 per cent nickel, 1.26 per cent copper, 0.09 per cent cobalt and 2.59g/t total PGEs from 99.58m, including 3.74m at 4.29 per cent nickel, 1.82 per cent copper, 0.13 per cent cobalt and 3.78g/t total PGEs from 103.36m; and

MAD59
2.96m at 4.3 per cent nickel, 1.25 per cent copper, 0.15 per cent cobalt and 3.21g/t PGEs from 64.85m.

“The drilling results for Cathedrals are exceptional,” St George Mining executive chairman John Prineas said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“We are seeing thick intervals of high-grade nickel sulphides complemented by high-grades of copper, cobalt and platinum group metals – and the mineralisation starts at just 30 metres below surface.

“These factors are obviously very favourable for any potential mining operation at Mt Alexander.

“It’s also very exciting to know that mineralisation remains open with an excellent opportunity to continue extending the high-grade mineralisation with our next drill program.”

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Pioneer Resources Hits Lithium Grade Heights at Pioneer Dome

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Pioneer Resources (ASX: PIO) loudly announced assay results received from the most recent drilling program at the company’s 100 per cent-held Pioneer Dome lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) Pegmatite project, near Norseman in Western Australia.

Pioneer Resources said the program including 14 shallow reverse circulation (RC) drill holes (PDRC111-124, totalling 1002m) intersected the thickest, high-grade lithium alumina silicates, as well as the thickest lithium mica intersections recorded to date from the PEG008A prospect, located adjacent to the Sinclair Caesium Zone.

The company explained a further three diamond core holes, which intersected Sinclair Zone pollucite, have not been cut and assayed as they were drilled for geotechnical information.

Lithium Alumina Silicate (Spodumene and/or Petalite) Intersections included:

PDRC113
9m at 1.18 per cent lithium dioxide (Li2O) from 44m

PDRC114
19m at 1.77 per cent Li2O from 39m, including 10m at 2.34 per cent Li2O from 47m

PDRC115
17m at 1.48 per cent Li2O from 35m

PDRC116
20m at 2.48 per cent Li2O from 36m

PDRC118
7m at 1.67 per cent Li2O from 43m

PDRC119
13m at 0.97 per cent Li2O from 36m

PDRC122
11m at 1.34 per cent Li2O from 45m

PDRC123
6m at 1.50 per cent Li2O from 44m

Lithium Mica (Lepidolite) Intersections included:

PDRC112
31m at 2.54 per cent Li2O from 47m

PDRC118
9m at 2.44 per cent Li2O from 50m

PDRC121
8m at 2.48 per cent Li2O from 47m

PDRC123
6m at 2.34 per cent Li2O from 51m

Tantalum Intersections (>180ppm Ta2O5) in earlier and current drilling included:

PDRC091**
12m at 372ppm tantalum pentoxide (Ta2O5) from 55m

PDRC112
16m at 284ppm Ta2O5 from 58m

PDRC118
15m at 494ppm Ta2O5 from 50m

PDRC121
6m at 422ppm Ta2O5 from 47m

PDRCD069**
5.25m at 534ppm Ta2O5 from 53m

PDRCD072**
5.85m at 390ppm Ta2O5 from 52.15m

PDRCD075**
4.6m at 365ppm Ta2O5 from 56.4m

** Drilled in previous campaigns

Pioneer Resources’ declared priority is to expedite the commercialisation the Sinclair Caesium Zone, indicating its next step is the development of an exploration decline and extraction of a bulk sample of ‘direct shipping’ pollucite for metallurgical processing.

Pioneer claimed that drilling at the Pioneer Dome project has confirmed the discovery of a rare-metal lithium-caesium-tantalum pegmatite system.

“It is well documented that a range of elements, including lithium, caesium, tantalum, rubidium, tin and beryllium, form in distinct zones within the differentiated pegmatite body,” Pioneer Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“The characteristics of PEG008A Pegmatite to date are those of an extreme distal pegmatite zone, which is characterised by the occurrence of pollucite, a globally significant and rare ore mineral of caesium. In this zone lithium may occur in micas (e.g. lepidolite) along with other exotic minerals.

“Spodumene tends to occur in greater abundance in more proximal pegmatite zones.”

The key caesium mineral is pollucite, which is very rare.

Prior to Pioneer’s discovery of the Sinclair Zone of the Pioneer Dome project, pollucite had been identified in commercial quantities in only two locations worldwide: the Bernic Lake Mine, Canada, and Bikita Mine, Zimbabwe, both of which have been substantially depleted by mining since the 1990s.

The main use of pollucite is in the manufacture of very high value caesium formate brines, used for high-pressure/high-temperature oil and gas drilling and exploration.

Caesium formate acts to stabilise rock formations, does not cause corrosion of drilling equipment and can enhance hydrocarbon recovery.

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Musgrave Minerals Intersects More Near-Surface Gold at Lena

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Musgrave Minerals (ASX: MGV) reported the final seven drill holes from a recently completed RC drill program at the Lena prospect, located on the Cue Project in the Murchison region of Western Australia.

Musgrave Minerals said the drilling at the Lena gold prospect had intersected further gold mineralisation.

Results include:


17MORC066
9 metres at 1.1 grams per tonne gold from 44m down hole;


17MORC074
4m at 8g/t gold from 35m down hole;


17MORC076
2m at 4.4g/t gold from 23m down hole and 3m at 7.2g/t gold from 38m down hole; and


17MORC078
8m at 1.9g/t gold from 12m down hole.

Musgrave said the latest shallow oxide intersections at Lena highlight the near surface gold potential of the prospect.

Mineralisation at Lena is confirmed to occur in vertical to steeply dipping, semi-parallel quartz lodes hosting gold within a mafic-ultramafic stratigraphic sequence and remains open along strike and down plunge.

The Lena mineralisation is currently defined along a 1.6 kilometre strike length and hosts a total combined Mineral Resource of 1.273 million tonnes at 1.86g/t gold for 76,000 ounces of gold.

This resource estimate does not currently include any of the 2016-2017 drilling undertaken by Musgrave.

“These further strong near surface gold results from Lena continue to support the likelihood of an open cut mine,” Musgrave Minerals managing director Rob Waugh said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“These results are the final gold results for the recently completed RC gold drilling program and will be included in the resource estimate currently on track for mid-July 2017.”

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Cassini Resources Drills Strike Extensions at Nebo Deposit

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Cassini Resources (ASX: CZI) has received end results from drilling at the Nebo part of the Nebo-Babel deposit as part of an 11-hole infill and extension program.

Nebo-Babel is within the West Musgrave project (WMP), located in Western Australia and part of a Earn-in/Joint Venture Agreement with OZ Minerals (ASX: OZL).

Cassini Resources reported all assays to be now in with results showing more further good news from the project’s Sugar Lode, located in the northern ‘roll-over zone’ at Nebo.

Hole CZC0163A returned a best result of:
7 metres at 1 per cent nickel, 1.45 per cent copper, 0.02 per cent cobalt and 0.93 grams per tonne PGE, including 3m at 1.87 per cent nickel, 1.87 per cent copper, 0.03 per cent cobalt and 1.76g/t PGE.

Cassini highlighted the PGE grades in this intersection as being particularly promising as they sit amongst some of the highest recorded in the deposit to date.

The Sugar Lode was discovered by Cassini in 2014 returning drill intercepts of:

CZC0053 
46m at 0.98 per cent nickel, 0.53 per cent copper, 0.03 per cent cobalt and 0.22g/t PGE (not true width); and

CZC0024
7m at 0.98 per cent nickel, 1.13 per cent copper, 0.03 per cent cobalt and 0.30g/t PGE.

Sugar Lode remains open to the west and east and has been categorised by Cassini as a priority for exploration due to the high-grade nature of mineralisation and the minimal amount of drill testing it has undergone to date.

A single hole was drilled to test the continuity of high-grade mineralisation between 100-metre spaced sections in the main Nebo orebody.

CZC0164 has confirmed the high-grade continuity returning:
7m at 1.29 per cent nickel, 0.41 per cent copper, 0.04 per cent cobalt and 0.30g/t PGE.

Cassini expects this result will allow it to prepare a more accurate model of the high-grade core of the deposit.

CZC0165 was drilled outside the existing resource and returned modest results, including:
2m at 0.67 per cent nickel, 0.52 per cent copper, 0.02 per cent cobalt and 0.10g/t PGE.

Cassini explained this hole had been targeting a strong down hole electromagnetic anomaly on the southern margin of the deposit, however the hole path deviated during drilling and has probably missed the target, being the body of the conductor.

Downhole Electromagnetic surveys are planned for all holes later in 2017 which will assist with interpreting results and may define additional targets.

“The program has successfully highlighted the potential for additional resource growth at Nebo warranting a more thorough resource definition and exploration drill program during later study phases,” Cassini Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“With all results from Nebo now received, remodelling of the Nebo Resource will begin.

“The new model is not expected to significantly vary the 2015 resource estimate in terms of contained nickel and copper but it will provide a greater level of confidence around the geological and weathering domains.

“The company has engaged independent consultancy group Golder Associates to undertake this work.

“Results of the Babel program are expected to be returned shortly.

“New mine design and schedules will follow completion of both the Nebo and Babel resource updates.”

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Musgrave Minerals Identifies Southern Extension to Break of Day

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Musgrave Minerals (ASX: MGV) has identified mineralised extension from results of recently completed reverse circulation (RC) drilling program at the Break of Day gold prospect on the company’s Joint Venture Cue project in the Murchison region of Western Australia.

Musgrave Minerals completed Phase two of the drill program at the Break of Day and Lena deposits in late May with 35 new drill holes and three hole extensions completed.

The company said the high-grade gold results continue to encourage the Musgrave team and will support the new resource estimate scheduled to be completed in July 2017.

Individual one-metre assay results from the recently completed phase two drill program at Break of Day have been received.

Extensional drill hole 17MORC062 intersected:

1 metre at 57.7 grams per tonne gold from 294m down hole on the Twilight Lode; and

1m at 3.4g/t gold from 320m on the Velvet Lode.

Musgrave explained this hole extends gold mineralisation on both lodes a further 150m down dip where it is still open at depth.

Extensional drill hole 17MORC070 was drilled 25m further south of previously-reported 17MORC050 (3m at 22.4g/t gold – Twilight Lode) and (15m at 16.6g/t gold – Velvet Lode) intersected:

1m at 14.1g/t gold from 133m down hole on the Twilight Lode; and

1m at 17.5g/t gold from 155m on the Velvet Lode.

This drill hole extended the mineralisation which is still open to the south where Musgrave considers there to be an opportunity to grow the resource with further drilling.

The drilling to date indicates the higher-grade mineralisation typically occurs below the 80 to 100 metres vertical depth level at Break of Day.

There is no drilling at this depth south of newly reported drill hole 17MORC070.

“This is a really positive result and leaves the mineralisation at Break of Day on both lodes still open to the south,” Musgrave Minerals managing director Rob Waugh said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange

“We are consistently seeing higher-grade gold mineralisation at Break of Day below the 80 to 100 metres depth level where it is wide open with no current drilling in this area.

“This creates a significant opportunity for the company to grow the resource with further drilling.”

The Cue project is a Joint Venture with Silver Lake Resources (ASX: SLR) where Musgrave holds a 60 per cent interest it has elected to increase to 80 per cent.

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Corazon Mining Identifies new Cobalt Zones at Cobalt Ridge

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Corazon Mining (ASX: CZN) announced results from a recently completed soil geochemistry program at the company’s Mt Gilmore cobalt-copper- gold project in north-eastern New South Wales.

Corazon Mining said the program had identified new zones of cobalt mineralisation at the Cobalt Ridge prospect, which is claimed to host one of the highest-grade cobalt deposits in Australia.

The company described Cobalt Ridge as a rare cobalt- dominant sulphide deposit, which it believes has the potential to supply a quality cobalt product, suitable for use in lithium-ion batteries and the emerging rechargeable battery sector.

The recent soil sampling at Cobalt Ridge defined extensions to the Cobalt Ridge prospect, as well as identifying several new zones of cobalt and copper mineralisation

Soil geochemistry results from the sampling is being used to prepare detailed 3D modelling of drilling that is being planned for the third quarter this year.

The Main Cobalt Lode has now been defined over a 450 metre strike and is expected to continue under cover

Drilling undertaken to date has only tested 200m strike of this zone.

Flintoff’s Trend has been defined by soil geochemistry over 350m of strike, also extending under cover.

The Flintoff’s anomaly contains the highest grade cobalt-in-soils result in the district (271ppm Co) and is associated with old copper workings that are more substantial than at Cobalt Ridge.

Government reports from mining in the early 1900’s recorded cobalt mineralisation up to 8.9 per cent, with more recent government rock-chip sampling (1986) returning 0.76 per cent cobalt, 0.69 per cent copper, 0.39 grams per tonne gold and 4g/t silver

This deposit has not been drill tested.

“Results have validated historical geochemistry and confirmed the presence of multiple zones of cobalt and copper mineralisation over a significant area,” Corazon Mining said in its ASX announcement.

“Surface geochemistry suggests the cobalt mineralisation is much more extensive than that defined by previous exploration and mining, which was focused solely on the copper mineralisation.”

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Cassini Resources Intersects Massive Sulphide Extension with first Nebo Hole

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Cassini Resources (ASX: CZI) reported first results from recent drilling undertaken at Nebo-Babel within the comaony’s West Musgrave Project (WMP), located in Western Australia.

Cassini Resources said the drilling had been carried out as part of an Earn-in/JV Agreement with OZ Minerals (ASX: OZL).

Cassini recently completed 11 RC holes at the Nebo and Babel deposits targeting extensions of high-grade mineralisation within and outside the current Resource model.

The first assays received came from the eastern end of the Nebo deposit, where hole CZC0166 intersected a massive sulphide zone containing:

3 metres at 1.8 per cent nickel, 0.21 per cent copper, 0.06 per cent cobalt and 0.21 grams per tonne platinum group elements (PGE).

The intersection coincided with an EM conductor within the host gabbronorite.

Cassini considers the intercept demonstrated the potential it has to identify and delineate higher grade zones beyond the current Nebo resource, particularly considering the coincident EM conductor extends for a further 150m east of CZC0166, with no historical drilling in the area.

“This hole is from the eastern-most line of drilling at Nebo where previous broad-spaced drilling had only detected lower grade mineralisation,” Cassini Resources explained in its ASX announcement.

“It is expected that this intercept will positively affect the resource model and subsequent mine re-optimisation.

“Significantly, this hole demonstrates that the Nebo-Babel host intrusion has not been closed-off to the east and may extend well beyond the current drilling, presenting an example of the potential for further discoveries at the project.

“This potential has also been demonstrated by the recent One Tree Hill discovery previously announced to the ASX in January 2017.”

Cassini indicated it will be undertaking a review of all previous exploration to plan a follow-up Resource definition and regional reconnaissance program.

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Middle Island Releases Two Mile Hill and McIntyre Drilling Results

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Middle Island Resources (ASX: MDI) continued its recent run of drilling result announcement from the company’s Sandstone gold project in Western Australia.

Middles Island Resources has received all gold assay results for reverse circulation percussion (RC) drilling completed during the June quarter at the Two Mile Hill and McIntyre prospects within the Sandstone project.

The company explained the purpose of the RC drilling program to be twofold as it infilled previous RC drilling in the northeast quadrant of the Two Mile Hill open pit deposit in order to clarify the mineralised continuity in an area critical to pit optimisation and to infill previous rotary air blast (RAB) and RC drilling at the McIntyre prospect to confirm and extend the presence of thick, shallow zones of gold mineralisation.

RC drilling results from both the Two Mile Hill and McIntyre prospects include:

2 metres at 44.7 grams per tonne gold ;
5m at 7.59g/t gold ;
25m at 0.81g/t gold; and
4m at 3.37g/t gold.

“Based on the strike and dip continuity of what is a broad mineralised zone at McIntyre, it is planned to undertake further RC drilling in the northern area in order to establish the mineralised strike extents and follow the zone down-dip to determine if the intercept grades improve within the transition zone, below an interval of suspected surface depletion within the upper (pallid) portion of the oxide profile,” Middle Island Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“Depending on funding and exploration priorities at the time, it is presently anticipated that this drilling will be undertaken within the second half of calendar 2017.”

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Tyranna Resources Encounters High-Grade gold at Typhoon

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Tyranna Resources (ASX: TYX) announced drilling has been completed (Phase 1) at Typhoon and Monsoon gold prospects, which are located approximately 39km south of the Challenger gold mine and part of the company’s larger Jumbuck gold project in the Northern Gawler Block of South Australia.

Tyranna Resources conducted the drilling in its role as manager of the Western Gawler Craton Joint Venture, which includes WPG Resources (ASX: WPG) (TYX 72% – WPG 28%).

The company said that final one-metre re-splits have been received for holes 17TYRC012 and 013, from which high-grade gold results have been validated by acceptable comparison with four-metre composites which were announced in April 2017.

High-grade intercepts include:

17TYRC012
13 metres at 3.88 grams per tonne gold from 47m, including 4m at 10.18g/t gold; and

17TYRC013
5m at 2.55g/t gold from 70m, including 1m at 7.5g/t gold.

The outstanding result from hole 17TYRC012 occurs at the BOPO (Base of Partial Oxidisation),” Tyranna Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“The BOPO is commonly where supergene mineralisation has been observed by Tyranna geologists and also occurs at the Golf Bore, Campfire Bore and Greenwood gold prospects.

“This BOPO is used by the geologists as a marker horizon that is indicative of the supergene enriched areas that for example, commonly carry grades of greater than 2 grams per tonne gold over widths of four metres.”

Tyranna is now in the process of submitting the initial BOPO samples for metallurgical test work to determine the suitability of leachable gold in the BOPO horizon.

Drilling at Typhoon is scheduled to recommence in July 2017, focussing on strike extensions to the northeast and south-west along the magnetic structure, which is parallel to gold mineralisation intersected in recent drilling by Tyranna.

The Phase 1 drilling at Typhoon and Monsoon consisted of 65 RC holes for 5,214 metres.

Assays from the Monsoon phase 1 drilling campaign are in progress, which Tyranna indicated would be announced upon receipt of final assays from the independent laboratory.

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Middle Island Resources Intersects 415m of Gold

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Middle Island Resources (ASX: MDI) announced remarkable gold assay results from three diamond drill holes completed at the Two Mile Hill prospect within the company’s Sandstone gold project in Western Australia.

Middle Island Resources said the diamond coring program, comprising drilling co-funded under Round 14 of the WA Government’s Exploration Incentive Scheme (EIS), was tasked with:

Testing the down-plunge extent of gold mineralisation within the Two Mile Hill intrusive tonalite stock in an area of more limited information and to a greater depth than any previous drilling (Holes MSDD155 and MSDD156); and

Testing strong, dual electro-magnetic conductors, interpreted to represent massive sulphide (pyrite) replacement of magnetite horizons with the upper and middle Shillington BIF units at depth, where intruded by the north-eastern contact of the Two Mile Hill tonalite (Hole MSDD154).

Hole MSDD156 returned a gold intersection of 415.2 metres at 1.34 grams per tonne, ending in mineralisation.

This is the deepest hole to be drilled thus far at the Two Mile Hill prospect.

A cored portion of MSDD156 displayed mineralisation from start to finish and remains open at depth, with the final interval comprising 66.9m at 3.27g/t gold (from 432m to end of hole at 498.9m).

Middle Island explained that when combined with the RC pre-collar (MSDD155) immediately adjacent to MSDD156, the extended mineralised intercept becomes 457.9m at 1.28g/t gold with veining, alteration and associated gold mineralisation in MSDD156 consistently developed throughout the entire hole.

The company reported the intercept in MSDD156 to be entirely consistent with previous diamond drilling at Two Mile Hill, which includes:

372.7m at 1.52g/t gold;
230.4m at 1.62g/t gold;
353.3m at 1.04g/t gold;
141.0m at 2.30g/t gold; and
156.3m at 1.14g/t gold.

Middle island claims the drilling confirms the presence of a substantial and ubiquitously mineralised system measuring 250m in strike and up to 80m in width that is mineralised to at least 500m depth.

The company considers the results to increase the possibility of bulk underground mining beneath the proposed open-pit cutback at Two Mile Hill.

“The intercept of 412.2m at 1.34g/t Au in MSDD156 is an exceptional result, by any measure, that I am extremely pleased and proud to be able to report to Middle Island shareholders,” Middle Island Resources managing director Rick Yeates said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“While the result itself is no great surprise, given the multiple previous intercepts of similar length and tenor returned from the Two Mile Hill tonalite, it does serve to confirm the extraordinary depth continuity and consistency of mineralisation within the intrusive.

“What is particularly encouraging is that the last 67 metres of MSDD156 averages 3.27 grams per tonne gold, suggesting that not only does the strong mineralisation persist, but that the tenor may even increase with depth closer to the interpreted position of the Shillington Thrust.”

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