Heron confirms potential of Kate Lens

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Heron Resources (ASX: HRR) has received the first assay results from a drill program currently underway at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Woodlawn zinc-copper project in New South Wales.

Heron said the latest results have confirmed the high-grade tenor of the Kate Lens mineralisation.
Recently received results include:

WNDD0002
8.8 metres at 12.6 per cent zinc, 1.6 per cent copper, 7.5 per cent lead, 2.3 grams per tonne gold and 152g/t silver, from 374m;

WNDD0002
2.3m at 12 per cent zinc, 0.6 per cent copper, 5.4 per cent lead, 1.3g/t gold and 116g/t silver, from 368m.

Heron indicated the current drilling program has intersected Woodlawn style massive sulphides in the Kate Lens in three of the four holes completed so far.

Other intercepts include:

WNDD0001
14.4m from 374m (assays received, awaiting quality-control checks); and

WNDD0007
13.3m from 413m (recent intercept with assays pending)

The company said the recent results, in combination with the WLTD015 discovery hole in 2013, provide good support for the size and orientation of its modelled EM plate of 150m by 120m.

Heron pointed out the lens remains open along strike towards the D Lens and up/down dip.

 

Long – section looking east for the Kate Lens showing recent drilling and modelled DHEM plates. Source: Company announcement

 

“The results from the current drill program confirm the very high potential for the Kate Lens to be an early source of high-grade underground production at Woodlawn within an easily accessible un-mined area, with the lens being located only 90 metres from the nearest established drive and within 350 metres of the surface (base of previous mining 620 metres),” Heron Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“Assay results for WNDD0001 are expected shortly, with the delays in receiving these being due to challenges faced by the laboratory with accurately preparing and assaying high-grade Woodlawn mineralisation.

“As more samples are processed, it is expected that laboratory productivity will improve.”

Heron currently has three diamond drill rigs on site and drilling is continuing into I Lens down-plunge, into Kate Lens (step-out), and on geotechnical holes relating to the decline design.

A down-hole EM program is ongoing, which the company explained to be seeking to generate new targets as well as to provide further definition on known lenses to supplement the drill intersections.

Email: heron@heronresources.com.au