Doray Minerals extends Wilber and Judy lodes at Andy Well

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Doray Minerals (ASX: DRM) has extended high-grade gold mineralisation at both the Wilber and Judy orebodies at the company’s Andy Well gold project near Meekatharra in Western Australia.

The extensions have come courtesy of recent underground diamond drilling undertaken by Doray at Andy Well as part of an ongoing campaign to delineate and extend mineralisation at the three main high-grade orebodies at the project.

Drilling is being carried out with up to three underground diamond core rigs at any one time and has so far focussed on extending and infilling high-grade gold mineralisation on the Wilber, Judy and Suzie lodes.

Following on from previous results released for both the Wilber and Judy South lodes the drilling has targeted steep northerly plunging high-grade shoots at all lodes.

The drilling at the Wilber and Judy lodes has encountered high-grade mineralisation below the current mining operations.

Assays received to date include:

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2.6 metres at 41.3 grams per tonne gold from 369 metres downhole (mdh) (True Width approx. 0.6m) (Wilber Lode);

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1.7m at 32.5g/t gold from 131.8mdh (True Width approx.0.7m) (Wilber Lode);

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1.5m at 42.8g/t gold from 243.7mdh (True Width approx.0.4m) (Wilber Lode);

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0.6m at 92.3g/t gold from 141.5mdh (True Width approx.0.3m) (Judy South Lode);

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1m at 95.4g/t gold from 127.3mdh (True Width approx.0.8m) (Judy South Lode);

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2.3m at 64.9g/t gold from 176.5mdh (True Width approx.1.5m) (Judy South Lode);

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0.6m at 191.4g/t gold from 222.8mdh (True Width approx.0.3m) (Suzie Lode);

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2.3m at 21g/t gold from 247.7mdh (True Width approx.0.8m) (Suzie Lode); and

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1.1m at 15.2g/t gold from 214.3mdh (True Width approx.0.5m) (Suzie Lode).

“Results have provided confidence in the persistence of these high-grade north-plunging shoots present through all three orebodies currently identified at Andy Well,” Doray Minerals said in its ASX announcement.

“In particular, drilling previously completed at Judy (MNDD158 – 0.5m at 17.3g/t gold) demonstrated the persistence of this high-grade mineralisation at depths of approximately 800 metres below surface.

“Mineralisation has now been delineated at depths of over 750 metres within the Wilber Lode and approximately 800 metres within the Judy Lode.

“Current mining activities are presently at approximately 250 metres below surface at Judy, and approximately 450 metres below surface at Wilber, demonstrating the significant additional potential that exists below the current mining operations.”

Doray has drilling ongoing at both Wilber and Judy testing further extensions of the Wilber Lode, as well as Judy South and North.

The company anticipates using drilling results to update the Mineral Resource and subsequent Ore Reserve for Andy Well as part of the Annual Resource and Reserve Statement.

Doray also highlighted Suzie as a target for further drilling to test concepts regarding more prospective positions on the host structure.

These positions will be tested as part of drilling in the new financial year.

Website: www.dorayminerals.com.au