Lunnon Metals Commences Defiance West EIS Drilling Program

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Lunnon Metals (ASX: LM8) is currently running a diamond drill program at the Defiance West target, a prospect it rates highly within the company’s Kambalda gold and nickel project (KGNP) in Western Australia.

Lunnon Metals received co-funduing for the drilling via the Western Australian Government, Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety Exploration Incentive Scheme (EIS).

The EIS program will entail two diamond drill holes as an initial test of the Defiance West target, an area of approximately 4km2, that is located in the footwall of the company’s Foster nickel mine.

Lunnon considers its recent results from the Lady Herial and Guiding Star prospects demonstrate an extensive array of gold mineralised structures to be present in the hanging wall of the Foster nickel mine in the same favourable rock types that host the Conqueror and Defiance lodes at Victory.

The Conqueror gold deposit was originally discovered by WMC Resources and is currently located on Gold Fields tenements.

It was part of the Victory-Defiance Leviathan Complex which was mined for over 25 years by both WMC and later Gold Fields.

“Lunnon Metals acknowledges the Western Australian government for its support of this co-funded EIS drill program and we are thrilled to kick it off,” Lunnon Metals managing director Ed Ainscough said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“The Defiance West target area is completely devoid of information in the bedrock at depth.

“The objective is to demonstrate that this area is permissive for gold, as we have done with the suite of exciting results delivered at Lady Herial and now Guiding Star.

“Our tenements at Foster and Baker are surrounded by some of WA’s great gold mines and the opportunity to test our own ground more aggressively is extremely exciting and has the potential to transform the company.”

 

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