Doray Gnaweeda drilling hits gold close to Andy Well

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Doray Minerals (ASX: DRM) has scored a number of high-grade gold results from a maiden drilling campaign being carried out on the Turnberry prospect at the company’s 88 per cent-owned Gnaweeda project (12% Chalice Gold [ASX: CHN]).

Gnaweeda is located approximately 15km south east of Doray’s Andy Well gold project, in the northern Murchison region of Western Australia.

Doray considers the proximity of Gnaweeda to Andy Well provides potential for additional high-grade ore within trucking distance of the Andy Well processing plant.

The drilling campaign was conducted with the aim of confirming a number of historic high-grade drill results within the project.

Highlights from the results returned include:

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1 metre @ 37.2 grams per tonne gold from 75 metres downhole (mdh)

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1m @ 12.2g/t goldu from 142mdh, and 3m @ 10.1g/t gold from 149mdh;

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5m @ 17.4g/t gold from 71mdh, including 1m @ 79.8g/t gold from 72mdh;

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4m @ 17.9g/t gold from 45mdh, including 1m @ 63.3g/t gold from 46mdh, and 37m @ 1.1g/t gold from 212mdh; and

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2m @ 5.8g/t gold from 101mdh, including 1m @ 10.4g/t gold from 102mdh.

“Having an operating processing plant at Andy Well opens up a number of potential opportunities for additional ore sources within trucking distance, such as at Gnaweeda,” Doray Minerals managing director Allan Kelly said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securirties Exchange.

“This first drilling campaign at Turnberry has been very successful and we look forward to outlining the opportunity with further drilling.”

Doray drilled eight RC holes at Turnberry, targeting mineralisation intersected by previous explorers.

The company explained the previous drilling at Turnberry was considered to be either too shallow, or not systematic enough to confirm geological controls to mineralisation, and the latest drilling was targeted below these sporadic previous intersections, to test the concept of a simple steep-dipping shear zone.

Doray’s interpretation was based on re-logging of existing drill core and re-interpretation of geophysical datasets by Doray staff.

Drilling aimed to test this interpretation along a strike length of approximately 120m.

The company indicated it anticipates follow-up RC drilling and exploration field work will be completed at Turnberry in the September quarter.

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