Sunshine Metals to Commence Drilling at Liontown Gap Zone Feeder

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Sunshine Metals (ASX: SHN) is back out drilling at the Liontown prospect near Charters Towers and part of the company’s Ravenswood Consolidated project in North Queensland.

Sunshine Metals is conducting the program targeting footwall extensions of the pumice breccia horizon east of the Main Feeder Zone and into the approx. 400 metres long Gap Zone.

Previous drilling by Sunshine Metals confirmed high-grade gold in the 1.6 kilometres Liontown footwall proximal to interpreted feeder fault zones.

The current program is to consist of nine RC/diamond holes covering approx. 250m of strike in the long Gap Zone, including around the Gap Zone Feeder.

“This exciting program steps east into the prospective approx. 400 metres long, under-drilled Gap Zone,” Sunshine Metals managing director Dr Damien Keys said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“This program will assess extensions to the high-grade, pumice breccia horizon that hosts intersections including 17m at 22.1 grams per tonne gold (23LTRC002), 8.1m at 10.7 grams per tonne gold (LTDD22055) and 8m at 11.7 grams per tonne gold (LLRC184).

“Even with sparse non-gold focussed historic drilling, the Gap Zone has already demonstrated its likely potential with intersections including 1.75m at 16.4 grams per tonne gold and 6.3 per cent copper (LLTD18012) and 6.4m at 3.2 grams per tonne gold (LLTD18012).

“The 1.6 kilometres gold-copper rich footwall at Liontown was last a focus when it was mined in the early 1900s.

“We are rapidly increasing our understanding of the footwall with every hole and are excited about this long overdue extensional program.”

Downhole EM surveys will follow drilling, guiding future deeper Gap Zone drilling.

The company is still awaiting assays for it Liontown RC drilling program completed in February 2024.

 

 

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