THE DRILL SERGEANT: Plymouth Minerals (ASX: PLH) has acquired historical the drilling results for six oil exploration wells –  BATC-1 and five others – oil exploration wells within the company’s Banio project, a potash deposit located in the Congo Basin, on the coast of Gabon.

Plymouth Minerals explained the acquisition was part of its ongoing research into historical exploration activities at the Banio project.

The company explained its initial interpretation of the historical drilling data identified the shallowest salt sequence identified within the Banio project, and that potash mineralisation is interbedded within the salt sequence of the Congo Basin and within the Banio project.

Salt commences from depths of as shallow as 240 metres below surface with potash identified from 270m below surface.

Plymouth believes that, based on the data, there could be a high probability of a repeat style of potash mineralisation as seen elsewhere in the Congo Basin to the south also exists in Banio as it has identified a high degree of correlation over a 100km strike in the Basin.

The company said the acquired information is highly important to ongoing work at Banio and will guide the final planning of drilling locations and depths.

Plymouth recently announced a drilling program and the drill rigs are being mobilised to Gabon to test these targets.

Within the Banio Project tenement, all historical holes have provided evidence of extensive potash mineralisation.

“The acquisition of this high quality historical drilling data together with further detail on existing data, has substantially increased the prospective mineralised footprint of our Banio potash project and provided a number of outstanding near surface targets,” Plymouth Minerals managing director Dr Eric Lilford said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“As a precursor to drilling this recently acquired historical data will be interpreted by an industry leading independent party to provide a Potash Exploration Target for the Banio potash project over the coming weeks.”

Website: www.plymouthminerals.com

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Cassini Resources (ASX: CZI) has commenced drilling at the West Musgrave project, located in Western Australia, as part of the company’s Earn-in/JV Agreement with OZ Minerals (ASX: OZL).

Cassini Resources informed the market that diamond drilling has commenced at the Babylon prospect, located at the western end of the Succoth copper deposit, which the company considers to have potential to host massive sulphides and in particular, nickel sulphides, beneath the existing copper-dominant resource.

Cassini said the drilling at Babylon is expected to take between two to three weeks to complete before the rig will be mobilised to the Nebo-Babel deposit to complete several large diameter drill holes to collect metallurgical samples for test work.

An additional drill hole to test an off-hole conductor at the One Tree Hill prospect will round-off the program.

This is anticipated to commence in early December.

“The drill hole at Babylon will target a wide intersection of the interpreted sub-vertical mineralised zone for a further 260 metres to 350 metres below the current maximum depth of downhole electromagnetic investigation, and 230 metres to 590 metres vertically below the mineralisation intersected in hole WMN4023 (1.96 per cent nickel, 0.13 per cent copper, 1.2 grams per tonne Pt+Pd),” Cassini Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“This mineralisation occurs as massive sulphide xenoliths that have been remobilized in a late-stage dolerite dyke.”

Cassini indicated it would be spending the money it received through WA Government EIS funding worth up to $148,500 to off-set the direct drilling costs at Babylon.

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Website: www.cassiniresources.com.au

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Alloy Resources (ASX: AYR) informed the market that a program of air-core exploration drilling has been completed at the Horse Well gold project in the North Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.

The Horse Well gold project is a Joint Venture with Doray Minerals (ASX: DRM), which as manager, advised Alloy Resources of the completion of the 28,000 metre air-core drilling program last week.

Alloy said the first phase of this program consisted approximately 72 holes that infill drilled to 200/100m x 100m around existing +100ppb gold anomalies at the Crack of Dawn South and Big Kahuna areas.

Drilling at Big Kahuna confirmed a broad 1.5km x 0.5km north-east trending area of strong supergene mineralisation through the Crack of Dawn granite, which the JV believes could represent a yet to be defined mineralised structure that also has some control on the Dusk til Dawn prospect gold mineralisation.

Better results returned from the drilling included:

4 metres at 0.55 grams per tonne gold from 36 metres downhole (mdh);

4m at 1.34g/t gold from 16mdh;

4m at 0.88g/t gold from 36mdh;

8m at 0.6g/t gold from 48mdh.

“This Big Kahuna trend had been evidenced from earlier drilling by Alloy and thereafter by the Joint Venture,” Alloy Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“A number of holes in granite within the trend north of Dusk til Dawn had gold mineralisation associated with sericite and pyrite alteration at the base of air-core holes which indicated a probable bedrock structure.

“This potential is now being enhanced by the emerging supergene mineralised trend.

“A further observation would be that the early Dusk til Dawn supergene air-core anomaly was very similar in tenor to these more recent results, and this fact gives added weight to the likelihood that a primary source potentially exists within the trend.

“Big Kahuna now becomes a target for future infill air-core and eventual RC drilling.”

A second phase of the drilling involved a large number of holes allocated to regional first pass drilling of an untested 7.5 kilometre section of the greenstone belt south of the Django prospect.

Alloy Resources said results from this second phase will be reported once all sample assays are to hand and the data has been compiled and interpreted.

The Horse Well Joint Venture comprises Doray Minerals (60%) and Alloy Resources (40%) and is completing a $2 million exploration program during 2016.

Email: info@alloyres.com

Website: www.alloyres.com

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Azure Minerals (ASX: AZS) has completed the final round of reverse circulation (RC) drilling on the company’s Mesa de Plata silver deposit in Mexico.

Azure Minerals said the results have confirmed excellent continuity of high-grade silver mineralisation by intersecting sizeable widths of mineralisation, some containing very high silver grades, including:

MDPC-068
9.1 metres at 884 grams per tonne silver from 21.3;

MDPC-069
13.7m at 518g/t silver from 18.3m;

MDPC-074
19.38m at 288g/t silver from 4.6m;

MDPC-106
22.9m at 250g/t silver from 137.m;

MDPC-107
45.7m at 442g/t silver from 1.5m; and

MDPC-108
9.1m at 1029g/t silver from7.6m.

Azure Minerals said the assays received from this infill drilling program confirmed the widths and grades the company had identified in earlier drilling programs, and corroborated the initial interpretation of the presence and continuity of the high-grade silver mineralisation at Mesa de Plata.

The company indicated the new information will enable the Mineral Resource estimate for the High Grade Zone to be upgraded from Indicated to Measured status.

Resource modelling is currently underway and Azure expects to release an updated Mineral Resource estimate prior to year’s end.

“I’m very pleased to announce the completion of the infill drilling program at Mesa de Plata and the commencement of an updated Mineral Resource estimate,” Azure Minerals managing director Tony Rovira said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“Importantly, the results confirm the presence of thick zones of high-grade silver mineralisation, demonstrating strong continuity of width, grade and contained metal abundance, and substantiating interpretations from the earlier drilling.

“The new data will not only allow us to refine and improve our understanding of the silver deposit but will also increase our knowledge of the High Grade Zone and permit a resource upgrade of this zone, or a significant portion of it, to Measured status.

“The High Grade Zone presents a very attractive near-term development option and we’re currently investigating this possibility by undertaking feasibility study activities.”

Website: www.azureminerals.com.au

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Lithium Australia (ASX: LIT) has identified lithium mineralisation during reconnaissance exploration within the company’s Lake Johnston project, located 450 kilometres east of Perth in Western Australia.

Lithium Australia announced a consolidation of lithium rights at Lake Johnston in October, which includes lithium rights on two tenements held by Lefroy Exploration Limited (ASX: LEX) and close to Poseidon Nickel’s (ASX: POS) recently announced discoveries.

The newly-identified lithium mineralisation occurs within pegmatites, which emanate from nearby fertile granites and intrude the adjacent greenstone terrains along brittle failures.

Lithium Australia explained the configuration to be similar to a number of other WA pegmatite occurrences, including the recently discovered Earl Grey lithium deposit of Kidman Resources (ASX: KDR), which lies approximately 70km to the west of Lake Johnston.

Similar discoveries have also been reported in the area by Poseidon Nickel.

Lithium Australia has identified five lithium prospects to date, referred to as the Whitten, Bulldog, Boundary, Trackside, and Floyd prospects.

The company has examined pegmatites within and in close proximity to E63/1777, collecting some twenty-one rock-chip samples that have been submitted for assay.

According to Lithium Australia the pegmatites are lepidolite rich, but also contain a number of other lithium minerals, including zinnwaldite which, in some cases, contains high levels of caesium.

“Lake Johnston has the right geological environment to produce abundant lithium pegmatites – it has large, fertile granites, adjacent to country rocks that have the most prospective physical characteristics for pegmatite emplacement,” Lithium Australia managing director Adrian Griffin said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“It is not surprising that our initial examination has revealed very prospective lithium pegmatites.”

Email: info@lithium-au.com

Website: www.lithium-au.com.au