Kentor Gold continues drilling run at Murchison

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Kentor Gold has intersected high-grade gold during RC drilling being conducted at the NOA 7&8 pits at the company’s Murchison gold project in Western Australia.

Drilling intercepts at NOA 7&8 include:

– 8 metres at 9.9 grams per tonne gold from 176 metres, including 1 metre at 40.8 grams per tonne gold;

– 3m at 13.9g/t gold from 247m, including 1m at 36.1g/t gold; and

– 1m at 35.2g/t gold from 226m, and 6m at 8.3g/t gold from 247m.

“These results at NOA7&8 present a further expansionary and cost reduction opportunity for the Murchison project,” Kentor Gold managing director Simon Milroy said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“We are planning to restart the NOA2 underground mine later this year and great results like this will add to future underground mining potential.”

 

Burnakura tenement plan. Source: Company announcement

 

The NOA 7&8 deposit is the most northerly of Kentor’s known Burnakura deposits, situated 800 metres from NOA 2.

Kentor Gold said NOA 7&8 has similar mineralisation confined to a brittle fracture zone characterised by brecciation and stockwork veining within the Burnakura Thrust Zone and has been traced over a strike length of 560m.

The host rocks are mostly sediments or felsic volcaniclastics, although some of the mineralisation at the northern end of NOA 8 is hosted within a carbonaceous siltstone, which the company indicated may be subject to lower recoveries.

Previous test work carried out on this material has demonstrated good recoveries can still be achieved in a CIL plant.

Kentor has scheduled production to commence at Burnakura at a rate of 24,000 ounces of gold per annum from mid-2012, with planning for an expansion next year already underway.

Initial production will come from the Lewis and Reward pits at Burnakura.