Nupower receives drilling approval

THE DRILL SERGEANT: NuPower has had a Phase 2 reverse circulation (RC) drill program approved to be carried out on the company’s Arganara phosphate project located in the Northern Territory.

The Phase 2 program will include approximately 166 additional 30 metre holes for 4980 metres of drilling.

NuPower said the aim of the Phase 2 drilling program is to extend the phosphate footprint and test if mineralisation is continuous from Arganara to Limestone Bore, which would result in a strike length of approximately 30km.
 
The company is currently wrapping up a Phase 1 program with just the western detailed 200m by 200m spaced grid of holes covering possible extensions of known phosphate mineralisation on an adjacent tenement, yet to be completed.

 

NuPower Phase 1 drill holes shown as blue dots, Phase 2 as red dots. Source: Company release

“NuPower expects the Phase 2 program to be completed quickly, as it will follow directly on from the Phase 1 program and utilise the existing field camp and drill rigs,” the company said in its announcement to the ASX.

“If time and weather permits, the Phase 2 drill holes planned at Anomaly L will also be completed, however, if not completed this year, then they will be drilled separately during 2012.”

Currently Phase 1 drill chips are being submitted for preparation before being sent for analysis.

The company has met some delays with the initial batches; however, it said that it hopes these delays will not extend into the second phase of drilling.