THE DRILL SERGEANT: Encounter Resources (ASX: ENR) claimed confirmation of extensive, enriched, high-grade niobium mineralisation at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Aileron project in the West Arunta region of Western Austtralia.

Encounter Resources made the declaration on the back of the first RC drilling results received from the Green prospect at the Aileron project where assay results confirmed the presence of high-grade niobium mineralisation in the upper portion of the system.

The company said the results demonstrate the continuity of the high-grade niobium system from next door neighbour WA1’s Luni discovery in the south-west, across the tenement boundary into Green.

New intercepts from Green include:

EAL894
116 metres at 1.7 per cent niobium from 52m to EOH, including 28m at 3.3 per cent niobium from 62m and 32m at 2.1 per cent niobium from 95m; and

EAL899
81m at 1.5 per cent niobium from 39m, including 43m at 2.4 per cent niobium from 43m.

Encounter highlighted the 197 metres intersection of hole EAL894, claiming it to be the highest ‘grade x thickness’ RC drill intercept returned from the entire West Arunta province to date.

The company’s initial RC drilling at Green has now established a zone of strike extensive, thick, high-grade mineralisation, and subsequently, a diamond hole has been completed for metallurgical test work.

Further batches of assays from the remaining 30 RC holes completed across approx. 2km of strike at the western part of Green will be returned in the coming months.

“Green is a large mineralised carbonatite (+3km long) containing multiple zones of shallow, high-grade niobium mineralisation identified with aircore drilling,” Encounter Resources executive chairman Will Robinson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“The first RC holes completed at the western side of Green demonstrate some of the best, depth extensive niobium mineralisation in the West Arunta.

“A further 30 RC drill holes have been completed at Green, through the better mineralised zones defined by aircore drilling, and we look forward to providing further assay results in the months ahead.”

 

 

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