Great Northern Minerals Defines Three High-Grade Zones at Douglas Creek Discovery
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Great Northern Minerals (ASX: GNM) has been busy implementing exploration activities at the Douglas Creek IRGS (Intrusion-Related Gold System) discovery, located on the company’s Golden Ant project in North Queensland.
Great Northern’s geology team have completed an extensive program of geochemical sampling (soil and rock) and mapping to gain a deeper understanding of the Douglas Creek discovery.
This resulted in an area of approx. 125 hectares being mapped and sampled while a total of forty-nine rock samples were submitted for assay.
To date, mapping and sampling have defined three zones of extensive high-grade mineralisation.
Zone 1: is a semi continuous gossan breccia zone with a strike length in excess of 350 metres, averaging 20- 30m wide.
Zone 2: contains outcropping gossanous, quartz veined ± brecciation altered sandstone and rhyolitic rocks (limonitic-jarositic ± scorodite), spatially related to rhyolite dykes.
Zone 3: consists of scattered float and occasional sub crop over a NE-SW trending zone demonstrating limited outcrop, although highly anomalous soil geochemistry reflects subsurface anomalism.
“Douglas Creek continues to deliver and to grow, with our geology team delivering a further series of outstanding results from the follow up from the discovery of mineralisation in May 2022,” Great Northern Minerals CEO / managing director Cameron McLean said in the company’s ASX announcement.
“Mapping and sampling have defined an extensive intrusion-related gold system, with at least three zones of extensive outcropping mineralization.
“Sampling has returned peak assays of up to 8.6 grams per tonne gold, 194.1g/t silver and 10.9 per cent copper from Zone 1, 6g/t gold, 277.8g/t silver and 0.3 per cent copper from Zone 2 and 2.7g/t gold, 77.2g/t silver and 0.8 per cent copper from Zone 3.
“Our geology team has been following up these exciting results with a detailed soil sampling program, further rock chip sampling planned to be completed in August.
“We are also commencing drill design and approval activities.
“Douglas Creek represents a brand new discovery for the company with no historic drilling or workings.”
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