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THE DRILL SERGEANT: This week Blackham Resources starts drilling at the Golden Age deposit, while Breaker Resources continues to drill for gold at Lake Roe.

Drilling at Golden Age underway

Blackham Resources (ASX: BLK) has commenced a maiden drill program into the high-grade Golden Age deposit at the company’s Matilda gold project in Western Australia.

Blackham has kicked off Stage 1 of a diamond drilling program into Golden Age with a view to both increasing the size and confidence in the high-grade resource.

Golden Age is a historically-producing high-grade free-milling quartz reef with a remaining resource of 0.6 million tonnes at 6.7g/t gold for 125,000 ounces of gold, which is a priority source of high-grade mill feed for recommissioning the Wiluna gold plant.

Blackham recently received DMP approval to re-enter the Wiluna underground mine, which is the access to Golden Age reef.

Blackham currently has 3 drill rigs at the Matilda gold project with a view to fast tracking the drilling required to complete the Definitive Feasibility Study.

The drilling is in line with Blackham’s focus on free-milling gold targets and resources within open pit or shallow underground depths, in close proximity to the Wiluna plant and infrastructure and capable of being bought into the early years of the mine plan.

Blackham is currently focused on finishing its Definitive Feasibility Study by Q4, 2015.


Drilling commences at Lake Roe project

Breaker Resources (ASX: BRB) has started drilling at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Lake Roe project, east of Kalgoorlie.

The main target of the drilling is a four kilometre-long zone of supergene gold mineralisation defined by historical drilling (maximum grade of 4m at 0.71g/t gold; WAMEX Report A34230).

An 80 hole aircore drilling program is scheduled for completion in approximately two weeks.

The main objective of the drilling is to assess the continuity of the supergene mineralisation and to use the gold distribution, in conjunction with bottom-of-hole multi-element geochemistry, to identify the geometry of a possible bedrock source in preparation for reverse circulation drilling.

“The gold potential of the area was identified by previous large company explorers but systematic follow-up of the results did not occur, apparently due to non-geological factors such as in convenient tenement boundaries at the time and changes in company priorities and market conditions,” Breaker Resources executive chairman Tom Sanders said.