Encouraging results from Flying Fox and Spotted Quoll

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Western Areas has received some positive results from recent drilling carried out below the Flying Fox and Spotted Quoll mines and across a range of other projects.

“It is encouraging to see positive results from below our currently operating mines at Flying Fox and Spotted Quoll, and also from three other projects in Australia, Canada and Finland,” Western Areas managing director Julian Hanna said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

The latest assay results stem from intersection achieved during the drilling of a significant width of massive sulphides in the T6 deposit, situated below the Flying Fox mine.

One drill hole intersected:

–    34.7 metres at an average grade of 8.9 per cent nickel.

“The intersection in T6 indicates potential for substantial extensions to high grade mineralisation below Flying Fox, outside current mineral resources and ore reserves,” Western Areas said in the announcement.

“Drilling is ongoing with the aim of defining an initial Mineral Resource in this area below the current mine.”

Drilling at the Spotted Quoll mine is also producing encouraging results for the company, well below the Stage One underground mine where development is in progress.

Recent results include one intersection of:

–    3.3m at an average grade of 8.3 per cent nickel from 1088m down hole depth.

Western Areas said it expects an initial Mineral Resource for Stage Two to be completed in the December quarter.

The company said it had also received encouraging results from exploration activity being carried out across its entire portfolio.
 
At the Mt Gibb Joint Venture Forrestania nickel project (Western Areas earning 70 per cent from Great Western Exploration) drilling has encountered a 1.5m intersection with veins up to 5.1 per cent nickel.

At the East Bull Lake JV in Canada (Western Areas earning 65 per cent from Mustang Minerals) a geophysical survey has defined  a number of extensive drilling targets.

At the FinnAust projects in Finland (Western Areas 79 per cent) drilling has intersected wide zones of anomalous mineralisation. Assay results from this drilling are still pending.