Encounter Resources Identifies Reef-Style Gold at East Thomson’s Dome

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Encounter Resources (ASX: ENR) has identified the presence of high-grade, near surface gold mineralisation at the Fold Closure prospect during an ongoing review of historical exploration data from the recently acquired East Thomson’s Dome project in Western Australia.

Encounter Resources consider the East Thomson’s Dome project to be a high-quality exploration opportunity located just five kilometres from the major gold-copper mine at Telfer.

Encounter said that early results from the current review have identified areas that warrant immediate follow up exploration.

These include historical shallow exploration in the 1990s at the Fold Closure prospect, which discovered an area of near surface high-grade gold that outcrops on the fold axis of the East Thomson’s Dome.

The Fold Closure prospect is an area 600 metre by 500 metres located in the centre of the East Thomson’s project.

“The most recent drilling at East Thomson’s was conducted by Barrick in 2005 when two approximately 1000 metre deep diamond holes were completed with both holes returning encouraging intersections,” Enounter Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“Barrick’s DDH at the Fold Closure returned 3 metres at 8.2 grams per tonne gold from 243 metres in a quartz reef similar to the host of the gold mineralisation near surface.

“This intersection sits to the northwest of the high grade near surface gold and remains open in all directions.”

Encounter explained that upcoming exploration will focus on finding extensions to the high-grade reef style mineralisation at the Fold Closure and to assess how these near surface mineralised reefs fit into a potential larger mineral system.

This program will involve a series of RC drill traverses and some diamond drilling from surface to orientate the mineralised reefs.

A second focus will be to follow up the diamond hole drilled by Barrick that contained the above an intersection.

Drilling will seek to establish continuity of this quartz lode and will endeavour to identify the relationship between the quartz reef intersected in this drill hole and the high grade near surface reefs.

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