Rubianna Resources encouraged by maiden Killara drilling

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Rubianna Resources (ASX: RRE) has been encouraged by positive exploration results from a recently-completed maiden RC drill program at the Killara base-metal project within the company’s Murchison tenements northeast of Meekatharra in Western Australia.

 

Project location map. Source: Company announcement

 

The company said the results of the drilling had supported its conceptual model for the project.

The program comprised eight RC drill holes for 1,422 metres, which the company designed to evaluate previously returned surface geochemistry and ground geophysical anomalies.

Rubiana indicated it had intersected elevated multi-element geochemical horizons within drilling of all of its principal drill targets, which it claimed supports its interpretation for the potential of sedimentary hosted (SEDEX) mineralisation within the project area.

“It is highly satisfying to have results that significantly improve our exploration and targeting model(s) from our first drill program in this area,” Rubianna Resources managing director Dr Steve Batty said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“The rock chip sampling and mapping clearly shows potential for a minimum of over twenty-five kilometres of anomalous horizons along strike and a minimum of at least three sub-parallel horizons in this area.

“As we are looking for a deposit with the main mineralised target zone potentially in the order of 200 to 300 metres long, there is significant upside to this early stage project following this modest exploration drill program.”