Hamelin Gold Commences West Tanami Exploration

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Recently-listed Hamelin Gold (ASX: HMG) announced the commencement of exploration activities at the company’s West Tanami gold project in Western Australia.

Hamelin Gold has started proceedings with a detailed airborne magnetic and radiometric survey over the eastern third of the West Tanami project, including the recently granted Fremlins exploration license.

The company will merge data from this survey with other available geophysical datasets to provide the first ever complete coverage of detailed magnetics across the West Tanami project.

“The completion of this survey will provide magnetics with at least 100 metre flight line spacing across the entire project area,” Hamelin Gold said in its ASX announcement.

“This key baseline dataset is an essential ingredient to be used in the upcoming ‘whole of project’ target generation and assessment program which will provide a pipeline of ranked exploration opportunities and targets across the West Tanami.”

Hamelin also has preparations underway for planned drilling programs at West Tanami including receipt of approved POWs, confirmation of earthworks contractor and finalisation of RC and diamond drilling contractors.

Drilling activities in the West Tanami are scheduled to begin in late Q1 2022 following the Summer wet season with diamond drilling planned at the Camel, Bandicoot, Quenda, Fremlins and Mojave prospects.

 

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Ardiden Permitted for Esker Drilling

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Ardiden (ASX: ADV) received permitting from Ontario Mines Department for exploration drilling to commence at the Esker gold prospect situated on the Western Hub of the company’s Pickle Lake gold project in Canada.

Ardiden has a 4,000m diamond drilling program planned and fully funded to test gold bearing structures at the Esker gold prospect that is situated four kilometres directly along strike of Barrick’s historic Golden Patricia gold mine.

“The process to receive approvals has been arduous and taken much longer than we had hoped due to COVID-related delays and protracted Mines Department processing,” Ardiden managing director and CEO Rob Longley said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Our persistence has paid off and we can now begin to evaluate the gold discovery potential of Ardiden’s massive land holding.

“While waiting for the permits, we actively used the time to continue geophysical interpretations, flying high resolution Lidar over the project.

“This drill program at Esker is Ardiden’s first step onto the Western Hub and will be the first drilling along these highly prospective and under-explored structures in nearly 30 years.

“We look forward to a solid year of drilling at Pickle Lake in 2022 and the associated newsflow.”

The Pickle Lake gold project is a continuous District-Scale land tenure package of 870 square kilometres that contains at least 22 identified gold deposits and prospects that Ardiden is systematically exploring.

 

 

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Thor Mining Drills Wide Mineralised Intercept at Molyhil Project

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Thor Mining (ASX: THR) reported on recent drilling undertaken at the company’s Molyhil tungsten-molybdenum-copper project in the Northern Territory.

Thor Mining announced that the second hole in its current diamond drilling program (21MHD002) intercepted scheelite, molybdenite and chalcopyrite mineralisation within a magnetite skarn, at the Molyhil tungsten-molybdenum-copper project.

The company said that 21MHDD002 had intercepted over 45 metres of disseminated scheelite-molybdenite-chalcopyrite mineralisation in a massive magnetite-rich skarn.

Thor said the drilling has confirmed the recently identified magnetic target to the south of the Molyhil deposit to be a continuation (or possibly offset) of the Molyhil deposit tungsten-molybdenum-copper mineralisation.

Based on the results achieved by the second drillhole, a third hole is now underway, designed to target the projection of the 21MHDD002 mineralisation down plunge.

“Testing a new geological concept, in this case an interpreted magnetic target from 3D modelling to the south of existing mineralisation, has paid off significantly,” Thor Mining managing director Nicole Galloway Warland said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“The tungsten-molybdenum-copper mineralisation is open to the south and the third hole is designed to test this south plunging model.

“The extension of this mineralisation, directly south of the deposit, in a previously untested area, is pivotal to the overall Molyhil project.”

 

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Tesoro Resources Hits Multiple Gold Intercepts at Ternera East

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Tesoro Resources (ASX: TSO) reported assay results from drilling at the Ternera gold deposit and the Ternera East discovery, located at the company’s El Zorro gold project in Chile.

Tesoro Resources is aiming to expand the existing Ternera Mineral Resource of 660,000 ounces of gold it reported in July 2021.

Tesoro received assays for eight diamond drill holes completed as part of the current extensional and infill drilling program at El Zorro as well as results for four holes drilled at the Ternera East discovery.

All reported holes intercepted multiple zones of gold mineralisation, confirming the potential of additional gold resources to be added that are located well outside of the existing Mineral Resource Estimate model.

“The results from Ternera East are very encouraging as we can now link zones of previously drilled gold mineralisation both up and down dip as well as along strike, confirming the presence of an extensive gold zone,” Tesoro Resources managing director Zeff Reeves said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“This area is important to us as any gold resources defined to the east of the main Ternera deposit have the potential to materially affect the economics of open pit mining at Ternera.

“We’ve obviously got plenty of drilling to do to delineate this area adequately, but these early results are very promising.”

Drilling is ongoing at El Zorro, focussing on infill and extensional areas at Tenera, along with drilling at additional targets Ternera East, Drone Hill and Toro Blanco.

Tesoro is currently awaiting results from 42 diamond drill holes previously completed as part of this program and will report these results as they become available.

 

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Email: info@tesororesources.com.au

 

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Ozz Resources Releases Maiden Maguires Resources

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Ozz Resources (ASX: OZZ) announced a maiden JORC 2012 Code-compliant reportable Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for the company’s 100 per cent-owned Maguires gold project near Cue in Western Australia.

Ozz Resources reported the MRE for Old prospect, based on an initial RC drilling program completed in August, at 312,000 tonnes at 2.15 grams per tonne gold for 22,000 ounces of contained gold.

“This represents a great start to our plans to establish a significant resource inventory across our portfolio of projects in the Cue/Meekatharra area – a highly-endowed and very active mining district in Western Australia,” Ozz Resources managing director Jonathan Lea said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“We have been able to deliver a solid, near-surface gold Resource containing around 22,000 troy ounces at an attractive grade after just one drilling program.

“Importantly, the mineralization remains open both along strike and down-dip, with excellent potential to grow the Resource with further drilling.

“There is also significant potential in the parallel Maguires Reward structure.

“We are planning further exploration and drilling programs across all our projects in the district to grow our Resource inventory, with further drilling planned at Maguires in early 2022.”

The company has been encouraged by its work to date and believes there to be potential to extend the mineralisation in all directions, Stage 2 drilling is being planned.

Two known mineralised zones within the Maguires project are approximately 200m apart and within this untested gap zone Ozz considers there to be considerable potential for identifying additional mineralised shoots.

The only drilling to date in this zone is historic shallow RAB drilling. Additional follow-up drilling will also be planned to test the Maguires Reward prospect (1km to the west of Old prospect on a parallel structure) to follow up the historic drill result of 4m at 19.2g/t gold.

The structure hosting Maguires Reward extends over a strike length of 1km in a similar structural setting to the Old prospect.

Drilling will be planned to test the entire strike length, book-ended by the old workings at Maguires North and Olivers Patch to the south.

 

 

Email: admin@ozzresources.com.au

 

Web: www.ozzresources.com.au

 

E79 Releases Ground Gravity Survey results from Pinjin JV at Laverton South

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: E79 Gold Mines (ASX: E79) reported preliminary results from recently completed geophysical programs over the company’s Laverton South gold project in Western Australia.

Within the Laverton South Project E79 have two tenement packages, Lake Yindana and the Pinjin JV.

E79 has a farm-in agreement with St Barbara (ASX: SBM) over the Pinjin project, which contains targets that were evaluated and ranked by St Barbara, including walk-up drill targets.

These targets are generally associated with a dolerite unit that runs through the southern tenement package and contains several highly ranked targets.

A 2D seismic survey was recently undertaken to map this dolerite unit at depth and identify the regional stratigraphy. Data has been collected and processing is underway.

A ground survey in the northern part of the JV returned preliminary results revealing a potential intrusion into the stratigraphy.

This target is considered a high priority with exploration and drill planning underway.

“E79 Gold has been busy undertaking various geophysical activities on our tenement package while we conclude our heritage surveys prior to initial drilling at the Laverton South project,” E79 CEO Ned Summerhayes said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Within the Pinjin JV we have both gravity and 2D seismic, with preliminary results from the gravity survey showing a potential intrusion within the greenstone stratigraphy, which requires further exploration.

“The 2D seismic will be processed in due course and we look forward to unearthing more information about this highly prospective area.

“Once completed the baseline gravity data at Jungar Flats will give us valuable insight into the geology and structure under cover, similar to the insight’s recent gravity data at our Lake Yindana project has provided.”

 

 

Email: info@e79gold.com.au

 

Web: www.e79gold.com.au

 

Venture Minerals Encounters New Mt Lindsay Mineralised Zone

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Venture Minerals (ASX: VMS) reported on drilling that encountered a new, and rather substantial, mineralised zone at the company’s Mount Lindsay tin-tungsten project in Tasmania.

Venture Minerals explained the drilling a Mount Lindsay was targeting high-grade zones within the existing deposit and while doing so drillhole ML339M intersected 93 metres of mineralisation.

The intersections from ML339M include:

93 metres at 0.5 per cent tin equivalent from 107m, including 12m at 1.7 per cent tin equivalent from 113m; or

54m at 0.6 per cent tin equivalent from 113m, and 30m at 0.5 per cent tin equivalent from 170m, and 22m at 0.6 per cent tin equivalent from 236m.

The drill program, while designed to confirm the continuity of high-grade zones and provide additional metallurgical samples, is part of the company’s updated Feasibility Study for an underground mine.

“The first hole of the new drilling program at Mount Lindsay, for the recently started underground Feasibility Study, has seen the MacDonald Shoot deliver further high-grade tin and tungsten assay results to confirm the continuity of this high-grade zone,” Venture Minerals managing director Andrew Radonjic said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Additional drilling on the Main Skarn’s high-grade MacDonald Shoot, followed by similar targeted drilling on the No. 2 Skarn’s high-grade Radford Shoot, is expected to return more high-grade results which will increase the confidence in the resource supporting an underground development.

“The MacDonald and Radford Shoots provide a great foundation for the first stage development for the Mount Lindsay tin-tungsten project whilst exploration will look to extend the life of the asset to a multi-decade opportunity, in keeping with other major mines on the West Coast of Tasmania.”

 

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Web: www.ventureminerals.com.au

 

Medallion Metals Eyes Potential of Harbour View

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Medallion Metals (ASX: MM8) reported drilling results from the Harbour View deposit, part of the Kundip Mining Centre (KMC) within the company’s Ravensthorpe gold project (RGP) in Western Australia.

The KMC currently hosts Medallion’s JORC 2012 Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) of 674,000 ounces of gold.

The Harbour View prospect is in the central area of KMC, around which drilling is ongoing to support a global MRE update which is expected to be completed in the March quarter of 2022.

The assay results from drilling at the Harbour View deposit returned high-grade gold and copper intercepts, including:

DD21KP997
2.38 metres at 4.26 grams per tonne gold, 7.19 per cent copper, 37.35g/t silver from 231.22m;

RC21KP1001
3m at 9.19g/t gold, 0.15 per cent copper, 3.42g/t silver from 69m;

DD21KP993
1.97m at 5.13g/t gold, 2.62 per cent copper, 47.58g/t silver from 276.63m;

RC21KP990
2m at 4.52g/t gold, 1.32 per cent copper, 14.95g/t silver from 29m;

DD21KP993
0.35m at 16.1g/t gold, 1.40 per cent copper, 5.4g/t silver from 334.28m; and

RC21KP1002
3m at 1.91g/t gold, 0.26 per cent copper, 2.08g/t silver from 80m.

The company indicated that hole DD21KP997 extended a copper rich high-grade sulphide zone 80m beyond previous copper hits, and beyond the margins of the current Mineral Resource.

“The first results from the Harbour View deposit are extremely positive,” Medallion Metals managing director Paul Bennett said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Intercepts at the southern end of the deposit represent substantial depth and plunge extensions beyond previous drilling.

“Additionally, the copper grade in DD21KP997 highlights the potential for copper to enhance project economics.

“At the northern end we’ve recorded significant shallow high-grade strike extensions on the Harbour View splays.

“These major step outs from the existing drilling further increase our confidence the project resources will undergo a significant upgrade in early 2022.”

 

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Web: www.medallionmetals.com.au

 

Global Lithium Highlights Twin Veins Gold Potential

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Global Lithium Resources (ASX: GL1) is beginning to think its Twin Veins gold project could end up being a stand-alone gold exploration project.

Since listing earlier this year, Global Lithium Resources has become known for the company’s Marble Bar lithium project (MBLP) near Port Hedland in Western Australia.

Recent exploration activities at the MBLP have entailed a RC drilling program on the Twin Veins project, returning assays of:

MBRC0159
7 metres at 4.78 grams per tonne gold from 11m;

MBRC0161
7m at 1.2g/t gold from 27m; and

MBRC0167
4m at 1.08g/t gold from 5m.

Global Lithium believes the results highlight the gold potential of the broader Marble Bar lithium project, which has historically been underexplored for gold.

The company has identified at least nine gold prospects for follow up exploration.

“These latest high-grade, shallow gold results highlight the potential of our Twin Veins project and demonstrates that the gold potential at this exciting project could indeed be a stand-alone project,” Global Lithium managing director Jamie Wright said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“While the company is focused on lithium exploration at the MBLP, there is no denying the gold potential that exists within our tenement package.

“Global Lithium has already identified nine gold prospects in the northern portion of its strategic tenement portfolio and has had immediate success on its first target, which is a testament to the capability of the technical team.

“We look forward to continuing our gold exploration programs in tandem with our lithium programs to see what further developments we yield.”

 

 

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Email: info@globallithium.com.au

 

Web: www.globallithium.com.au

 

Dreadnought Resources Confirms High-Grade Orion Discovery

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Dreadnought Resources (ASX: DRE) claimed confirmation of a high-grade copper, silver, gold and cobalt massive sulphide discovery at the Orion prospect, part of the company’s Tarraji-Yampi project in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Dreadnought Resources reported the discovery via assay results from the first six mineralised follow-up holes drilled at Orion.

The company said the drilling confirmed Orion as a high-grade copper (up to 7.4%), silver (up to 192g/t), gold (up to 34.2g/t) and cobalt (up to 1.66%) massive sulphide discovery with mineralisation commencing from just one metre under cover, extending to at least 240m along strike and 150m down dip.

Orion currently remains open along strike and at depth, however geophysical modelling indicates the mineralised body could extend to at least 500m depth.

“With multiple thick, high-grade intercepts now confirmed we are delighted to declare Orion a high-grade copper-silver-gold-cobalt discovery occurring just one metre below surface,” Dreadnought Resources managing director Dean Tuck said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“With 13 mineralised holes remaining to be assayed, including our deepest, and our oxide and supergene intercepts, we expect more high-grade intercepts to come.

“This is an amazing outcome from what is our second ever drill program at Tarraji-Yampi, the first programs here since 1958/1972 and an indication of the potential for this highly prospective and underexplored ground to produce more discoveries.”

 

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Email: info@dreadnoughtresources.com.au

 

Web: www.dreadnoughtresources.com.au