Kentor Gold combines new and historic drill data at Murchison mine

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Kentor Gold (ASX: KGL) has claimed discovery of a new high-grade zone of mineralisation through drilling on the NOA2 deposit at the company’s Murchison gold mine in Western Australia.

The NOA2 deposit is already the source of ore to the Murchison processing plant, following the reopening of the underground mine in December 2012.

The drilling at NOA2, completed late last year, entailed three Reverse Circulation holes, one of which the company said intersected a narrow, high-grade zone of mineralisation.

Best results from the drilling include:

12BNRC267:
1 metre at 3.67g/t gold from 167 metres; and

1m at 5.5g/t gold from 245m;

12BNRC279:
1m at 1.59g/t gold from 220m; and

12BNRC280:

3m at 51.5/t gold from 180m, including 1m at 149g/t gold from 181m;

1m at 1.72g/t gold from 210m; and

1m at 3.34g/t gold from 219m.

 

NOA2 pit looking west showing underground development and planned
stopes with ATW’s 2009 drill holes. Source: Company announcement

 

Kentor explained the recent drilling was conducted to follow up an intersection of 12m at 6.1g/t gold from 213m the company achieved in April 2012.

The company considered that particular intersection important as it was encountered between two existing lodes and was not part of the project’s existing resource.

Kentor also recently conducted a validation of previous data from 21 diamond holes drilled by the previous owner of the Burnakura project, ATW Gold Corporation Australia in 2009, which were not entered into the database or included in the resource estimate.

“Data for these holes has been validated with check analyses at an accredited laboratory and then added to the database,” Kentor Gold explained in its ASX announcement.

“This additional data has significantly improved drill coverage on several of the planned stopes at NOA2, providing greater confidence in the interpretations of the mineralised trends.

“Reinterpretation of the ore outlines is in progress in prelude to a resource update that includes all the new data from ATW and the recent Kentor drill programs.”

Kantor has designed additional drilling, to be conducted using an underground drill rig, to increase confidence in existing lodes prior to mining and to test for extensions at depth.

A resource update for NOA2 incorporating this additional drilling has commenced and is expected to be completed in Q2 2013.