Integra Mining scores Imperial gold and copper

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Integra Mining has hit a number of high-grade gold and copper intersections during the latest drilling being conducted on the Imperial prospect at the company’s Randalls gold project in Western Australia.

The Imperial prospect is situated approximately 500m north-west of the Majestic gold deposit at the Randalls gold project.

The latest round of RC drilling was conducted to test the continuity and extent of mineralisation intercepted in RC and diamond drilling the company completed in late 2011 and early 2012.

 

Imperial drill collar location plan with Majestic open pit outline. Source: Company announcement

 

This drilling returned 5m at 43.9 g/t gold and 1.25% copper.

Other results include:

–    12 metres at 16.99 grams per tonne gold and 1.08 per cent copper, including 1m at 25.44g/t gold and 0.87 per cent copper, and 2m at 52.27g/t gold and 3.42 per cent copper, and 1m at 60.36 g/t gold and 3.94 per cent copper; (this result immediately down-dip of the 5m at 43.9 g/t gold and 1.25 per cent copper intercept)

–    3m at 8.87g/t gold and 0.08 per cent copper, including 1m at 23.35g/t gold and 0.17 per cent copper; and

–    1m at 12.07g/t gold and 0.02 per cent copper.

The Imperial prospect is part of the Monger Joint Venture between Integra (85 per cent) and Newcrest (15 per cent).

“The recent results together with the previously reported results indicate that the mineralisation continues for at least 340 metres along strike and remains open to the north and south and down dip,” Integra Mining said in its ASX announcement.

“At the end of April, Imperial was handed over from the exploration team to the project development team for further advancement of the prospect.

“Resource definition drilling commenced in early May.

“A Sub-Audio Magnetic (SAM) geophysical survey is currently underway to test for mineralisation in unexplored areas of the Majestic region.”

Integra said it expects the geophysical surveys to provide cost-effective target definition within the larger Majestic gold / copper anomaly.

The company has interpreted the greater Majestic to be part of a larger intrusive-related or porphyry-style high-grade gold / copper mineralised system of a style previously unknown in the Eastern Goldfields.