Murrin Murrin provides encouraging gold intersections for Kumarina Resources

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Kumarina Resources (ASX: KMR) has completed a campaign of RC drilling at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Murrin Murrin project near Leonora in Western Australia.

The infill drilling program was centred over the Malcolm and Challenger workings and was designed to test the continuity of mineralisation below and between the two open pit mines.

 Highlights from the drilling include:

–    13 metres at 12.6 grams per tonne gold from 52 metres;

–    7m at 12.7g/t gold from 63 metres;

–    21m at 4.2g/t gold from 39m;

–    13m at 4.2g/t gold from 13m;

–    4m at 6.4g/t gold from 18m;

–    5m at 3.2g/t gold from 62m;

–    8m at 5g/t gold from 47m;

–    11m at 3.5g/t gold from 35m; and

–    8m at 3.4g/t gold from 40m.

Kumarina said it considers the thickness and grade of the structures discovered by the drilling program indicate potential exists below the open pits, which cover approximately 1200 metres of strike.

 

Murrin Murrin project gold targets. Source: Company announcement

 

The mineralisation remains open at depth and along strike.

“The mineralisation is hosted by a quartz stockwork located within multiple sedimentary shale units (up to 30 metres thick) bounded by ultramafics,” Kumarina Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“Gold grades within the quartz stockwork vary from 0.3g/t to 80 g/t with the higher grades located near the geology contacts of the ultramafic.

The results provide encouragement for further discoveries within the project area, particularly on the seven kilometre strike to the south of the Malcolm Challenger mines, where numerous underground mines were developed in the early 1900’s.”

The results have provided the impetus for the company to commence planning follow up drilling programs, which it anticipates to recommence in January 2013.