Legend Mining encouraged by Rockford Drilling results
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Legend Mining (ASX: LEG) provided an update on recent drilling carried out at the company’s Rockford project in the Fraser Range of Western Australia.
Legend has completed a total of five RC drillholes (RKRC001-005) at Rockford on Area D, testing three strong-moderate conductors (D1, D2 and D4) that had been previously identified by MLEM surveying.
The company highlighted the final three drillholes completed at Area D explaining two of these holes were re-drills of previously abandoned holes.
The drilling resulted in conductor D1 being supported by the intersection of 22 metres of graphite schist, however conductors D2 and D4 both require downhole EM (DHEM) to clarify these conductors.
Heavy rain leading into Easter caused Legend to suspend field activities and demobilise the drilling crew.
The company now plans DHEM surveying at Conductors D2 and D4 to commence once the weather clears.
Once results from the DHEM are received along with the assays from all five drillholes future work can be planned.
“These five holes are another step in the process of systematic exploration of our entire project,” Legend Mining managing director Mark Wilson said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.
“We are looking forward to the upcoming DHEM program and the assay results from the RC holes to integrate with existing datasets to assist in the planning of future works.”
Legend said the drilling has provided it with valuable geological information specific to Area D, whilst marking the first RC drilling within the Rockford project into the Fraser Zone of the larger AlbanyFraser Orogen.
The drilling intersected typical Fraser Zone lithologies, including; pyroxene-rich mafic granulite, olivine/pyroxene-rich ultramafic, garnet/biotite felsic granulite and minor metasediment.
The company considers the presence of dense and magnetic mafic/ultramafic units intersected in the drillholes at Area D, and interpreted elsewhere in the project, to be consistent with observed gravity and magnetic data.
Legend declared the information from the drilling further supports its belief that the Rockford project is highly prospective for nickel-copper mineralisation associated with mafic/ultramafic intrusive bodies.
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