Hill End sees gold in first Big Nugget drill hole

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Hill End Gold has had a pleasing start to a recently-commenced drilling program at the North Big Nugget Hill and Gundowda Shear prospects situated within the company’s Hargraves project.

The drilling is being undertaken with the objective of extending the gold resource the company already has defined at Big Nugget Hill.

 

Drilling on site at North Big Nugget Hill prospect. Source: Company announcement

 

Hill End said the first drill hole of the current program in the North Big Nugget Hill prospect has intersected well-developed quartz veining over 6.4 metres from 69.9m down hole.

The company said it had been greatly encouraged to see visible gold has been observed in the core at 54.7m, 70.1m, 75.0m and 76.0m.

However, assay results are not yet available.

“Initially 1,350 metres of diamond core drilling is planned on sections spaced at approximately 50 metres to test an interpreted 400 metre northern extension of the Big Nugget Hill resource to a depth of approximately 100 metres,” Hill End Gold said in its ASX announcement.

“If initial results are encouraging, the program will be extended by a further 1,950 metres to test the prospects to a depth of 150 metres.”

Hill End has previously completed four diamond drill holes and one RC drill hole at the North Big Nugget Hill prospect with one of the diamond holes returning:

–    23.5 metres at 1.1 grams per tonne gold from 29.6 metres and 14.5 metres at 1.4 grams per tonne gold from 142.1 metres.

As part of the current program, Hill End said the adjacent Gundowda Shear prospect will be drilled near the historic Eureka Gold Mine.

The Gundowda Shear has not previously been drill tested, although nine rock chip samples of quartz veins from near the Eureka Mine returned results of up to 81.8 g/t gold.