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Emmerson Resources Recommences Drilling at White Devil

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources (ASX: ERM) is back out with an RC drilling rig at the company’s White Devil deposit near Tennant Creek in central Northern Territory.

Emmerson Resources recently announced a Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for White Devil of 4.6 million tonnes at 4.2 grams per tonne gold for 611,400, 87 per cent of which sits in the Indicated Category.

The company declared this to be the largest undeveloped gold MRE in the Tennant Creek Mineral Field.

Emmerson explained the deposit is poorly tested at shallow depths along strike to the east and west as well as at depth, which it considers providing additional upside potential to the existing MRE.

The new RC drill program has been designed to infill shallow western extensions to the current MRE and test potential extensions of the mineralisation to the west, which is hoped to have a material positive impact on the western end of the open pit design that could ultimately be developed.

The company is currently undertaking a White Devil Scoping Study that is progressing well and expected to be completed in approximately four weeks.

“After the Mineral Resource update just over a month ago, we are pleased to be back out in the field at White Devil to complete shallow infill drilling and test for additional extensions to the west that could provide additional upside to our open pit design,” Emmerson Resources managing director Mike Dunbar said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“We are very close to completing the Scoping Study for White Devil, which we expect to be the first deposit defined as a Major Mine Deposit under our JV arrangement with TCMG, a 100 per cent subsidiary of AIM-listed gold producer Pan African Resources.

“Furthermore, we anticipate being able to move from the Scoping Study straight into a Pre-Feasibility Study and are preparing for that with the geotechnical drill program.

“As the largest undeveloped gold Mineral Resource in the Tennant Creek Mineral Field, White Devil is a clear game changer for Emmerson as well as Pan African, who recently commenced commercial gold production at the nearby 840,000 tonnes per annum Nobles CIL plant.

“This is amplified in the current strong gold price environment and Emmerson is highly focused on rapidly unlocking its full potential for the benefit of shareholders and the Tennant Creek community.”

 

TO READ THE FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: CLICK HERE

 

Emmerson Resources Reports High-Grade Gold Results from Initial White Devil Drilling

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources (ASX: EMR) provided some interest for punters at the2025 RIU Explorers Conference by announcing drilling results from 2024 drilling undertaken at the company’s White Devil gold project near Tennant Creek.

Emmerson Resources reported extensional RC drilling results that encountered high-grade zones of gold mineralisation, including:

WDERM030
33m at 5.1 grams per tonne gold from 189m, including 10m at 11.2g/t gold and 9m at 4.5g/t gold from 64m;

WDERM004
11m at 6.2g/t gold from 8m, including 1m at 55.7g/t gold; and

WDERM010
9m at 4.8g/t gold from 29m.

Emmerson said the drilling extended the known White Devil mineralisation 320m to the east and to surface above the historical high-grade mineralisation as well as confirming mineralisation extends into the shallow unreported portion of the current Mineral Resource Estimate.

“It is very pleasing to announce that the results from the first 31 RC drill holes completed at White Devil in December have exceeded expectations,” Emmerson Resources managing director Mike Dunbar said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Multiple high-grade and wide zones of mineralisation were intersected including 33m at 5.1g/t gold, 11m at 6.2 g/t gold, 11m at 5.1g/t gold and multiple six to 10 metre wide high-grade gold zones ranging from 12.8g/t to 3.8g/t gold which is a great result.

“This bodes well for the upcoming Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) that will be completed once we have received results from the last 9 RC holes drilled in January.

“The MRE update is expected to be completed in late March and will form the basis for the Scoping Study that will determine the status of the White Devil deposit according to the terms of the JV.”

 

TO READ THE FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: CLICK HERE

 

Emmerson Resources Commences Resource Drilling at White Devil Gold Project

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources (ASX: ERM) has kicked off RC drilling at the company’s White Devil gold project at Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.

Emmerson Resources is carrying out a 35 hole program that will include approximately 3,500m of RC drilling targeting a previously undrilled shallow eastern extension to known high-grade gold mineralisation that was mined from 1987 to 1999.

The company explained the target area was previously not accessible due to surface infrastructure that was removed during mine decommissioning.

Emmerson describes the White Devil gold project as a high-grade gold mine that remains open to the east and at depth.

The mine produced over 760,000 ounces of gold from 1.6 million tonnes of ore at a recovered grade of 14.6 grams per tonne gold, predominately from underground mining, prior to its closure in 1999, primarily as a result of low gold price of the time, with accessible mineralisation known to remain.

“It is anticipated that drilling at White Devil will be completed prior to Christmas and assay results are anticipated to be reported in early 2025,” Emmerson Resources said in its ASX announcement.

 

 

Emmerson Resources Drills High-Grade Copper-Gold Growth at Hermitage

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources (ASX: ERM) continues to drill growth at its Hermitage copper-gold discovery at the company’s 100 per cent-owned project at Tennant Creekin New South Wales.

Emmerson Resources received remaining assay results from drilling at the Hermitage discovery, which is one of a cluster of 100 per cent Emmerson owned prospects where the application of new exploration technologies is unlocking new discoveries.

Drilling highlights include:

HERCDD006
52.5 metres at 1.03 per cent copper, 1.36 grams per tonne gold and 0.11 per cent bismuth from 131.5m, including 4m at 5.66g/t gold and 0.47 per cent copper from 141m;
12m at 3.39g/t gold; and
3.04 per cent copper from 172m, including 3m at 12.51g/t gold and 2.95 per cent copper from 181m.

HERCDD005
5m at 1.06g/t gold, 0.58 per cent copper and 0.13 per cent bismuth from 75m; and
6m at 1.88g/t gold, 0.83 per cent copper and 0.11 per cent bismuth from 105m, including 3m at 3.67g/t gold, 1.38 per cent copper and 0.21 per cent bismuth from 105m.

Emmerson said the drill holes from the phase 2 drill program build on previous high-grade results while extending the strike extent and potential for multiple, ironstone hosted copper-gold mineralisation to the north of the central ironstone.

This mineralisation is open along strike to the east and west and plunging down beneath the fault that is to be the subject of future drilling.

“Now we have all the assay results of the phase 2 drilling, Hermitage is on scale with many of the major historical discoveries in the Tennant Creek Mineral Field,” Emmerson Resources managing director Rob Bills said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“The grades of copper, gold, cobalt, and bismuth are outstanding, as evidenced by angled scissor drill hole HERCDD010, successfully aimed at testing beneath the fault and discovery drill hole HERCDD003 – ranked on a global basis as one of the best intersections for 2021.

“Encouragingly, this phase 2 drilling indicates that the gold, copper and bismuth grades increase with depth and remain open in all directions.

“The addition of cobalt and bismuth to the copper and gold at Hermitage adds to the inventory of future facing metals relevant to the battery, superconductor, magnet, and 3D printing, suite of metals.”

 

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Web: www.emmersonresources.com.au

 

 

Emmerson Resources Commences Drilling at Golden Forty Gold Project

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources (ASX: ERM) has commenced a reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling program at the Golden Forty project, within the company’s 100 per cent-owned Southern Project Area near Tennant Creek in New South Wales.

Emmerson Resources is drilling to test for extensions to the historic high-grade gold mineralisation (approx. 12g/t gold) at the Golden Forty Mine and potential at the nearby Golden Forty East project.

The program operated and managed by Emmerson and funded as part of the $5 million earn-in to the Southern Project Area by Joint Venture (JV) partner Tennant Consolidated Mining Group (TCMG).

The company is hopeful that results will advance this project to a scoping study with potential to be added to the mining schedule that contains recently announced resources for the Chariot and Mauretania deposits.

“The Golden Forty mine reportedly produced more than 50,000 ounces of gold at a high-grade of approx. 12 grams per tonne gold in the typical high value style of mineralisation seen across Tennant Creek,” Emmerson Resources managing director Rob Bills said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Drilling at Golden Forty is aimed at adding further resources to the inventory and mine schedule ahead of establishment of the central mill by our partner TCMG.

“We have recently announced JORC resource estimates for Chariot and Mauretania under the Small Mines JV with partner TCMG.

“Providing this current program is successful, we anticipate resource additions from Golden Forty that may be amenable to future open pit mining.”

 

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Emmerson Resources Intersects Visual Gold and Copper at Hermitage

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources (ASX: ERM) reported hitting visual gold and copper whilst drilling at the company’s Hermitage project in Tennant Creek.

Emmerson Resources declared the latest drillhole completed at Hermitage (HERCDD010) to have intersected:

o Extensive malachite in voids and vugs within hematite ironstone (from 74m down hole);

o Native copper both in the ironstone and as vug fill;

o Visible gold in massive hematite-magnetite-quartz that is terminated by a 10m wide fault/shear zone (at 171m);

o Chalcopyrite as veins, fractures, and cement in quartz-dolomite-hematite hydrothermal breccia (below the fault) and as blebs (to 190m) before finally intersecting; and

o Chalcopyrite and bornite in stockwork quartz veins, fractures and stringers that gradually grade to minor blebs/specks of chalcopyrite (at 222m down the hole).

Emmerson explained HERCDD010 was drilled as an angled scissor hole in the opposite direction to previous drilling to test below the fault encountered by discovery drill hole HERC003 (116m at 3.4% copper and 0.88g/t gold) and confirms that copper mineralisation continues at depth.

“Hermitage is shaping up as one of our most exciting projects and continues to exhibit hallmarks of a significant gold-copper discovery,” Emmerson Resources managing director Rob Bills said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“New zones of mineralisation continue to be intersected with this latest drill hole intersecting visible gold, plus a new zone copper mineralisation below the fault that truncated the previous high-grade gold and copper in discovery drill hole HERCDD003.

“This new zone of copper mineralisation consists of bornite-chalcopyrite hosted by breccias and stockwork quartz veins – interpreted to be the feeder conduit to the overlying hematite-magnetite ironstones.

“The mineralisation is hosted in multiple, east-west striking structurally controlled, ironstone bodies that are steeply north plunging, and now with this intersection, are also open down plunge.

“Whilst the tabular to pipelike geometry of the mineralisation constrains the surface (horizontal) footprint as is typical in most of the Tennant Creek iron-oxide copper-gold deposits, the grade and plunge extent are the main determinants of the future potential.

“Furthermore, there are now three distinct targets at Hermitage that include: shallow copper in the oxide zone; gold associated with massive hematite and, primary copper mineralisation below the fault hosted in breccias, stockwork veins and fractures.

“This has important exploration implications both at Hermitage in terms of further potential but also in the region where the stockwork and fracture-controlled chalcopyrite-bornite mineralisation represents a new target.”

 

 

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Emmerson Resources Commences Drilling at Kiola Gold-Copper Project

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources (ASX: ERM) has commenced a diamond drilling program at the company’s Kiola gold project in New South Wales.

Emmerson Resources intends to drill a minimum 2,000 metres of diamond drilling to test targets within the 15 square kilometres Kiola Geochemical Zone (KGZ) – an area the company considers highly anomalous gold-copper and historic workings.

No previous deep drilling has been carried out in the area previously, despite strong indications of gold-copper mineralisation from surface.

Kiola is in a good neighbourhood, sitting within the Molong Belt, which hosts the recent Boda copper-gold discovery of Alkane Resources and Newcrest’s Cadia-Ridgeway deposits.

Emmerson ranks the Kiola project highly amongst the company’s expansive portfolio of early stage gold-copper projects.

Recent work has confirmed that the KGZ contains attributes associated with world class porphyry gold-copper mineralisation and is divided into a northern area centred on the Nasdaq skarn, and a southern area around the South Pole, Kiola and Right Hand Creek mine.

Activities have involved around 15-line kilometres of Induced Polarisation (IP) geophysics collected in late 2019 that reinforced the depth potential of the target areas, particularly when combined with the geochemistry, age dates, intrusion fertility plots and geology and taking into account the limited exposure of the Ordovician stratigraphy due to soil cover.

The current diamond drill program is to consist five holes and is expected to be completed in late June 2020 with assay results in August 2020.

The program will in part be co-funded by the $100,000 New Frontiers Cooperative Drilling grant from the NSW Government.

“We are pleased to commence drilling at Kiola after implementing a number of measures to mitigate COVID19 health risks in accordance with state and national protocols,” Emmerson Resources managing director Rob Bills said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“We remain committed to protecting our employees, contractors and surrounding communities and look forward to drill-testing a variety of gold and copper targets across the project area.

“Stage 1 drilling at Kiola will test priority targets within the Kiola Geochemical Zone, a approximate 15 square kilometres area of elevated gold and copper geochemistry, historic copper workings, and skarns that contain gold, copper and zinc.

“There has been no deeper drilling within the zone to test for the source of the gold and copper mineralisation.”

 

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Emmerson Resources Awarded NSW Government Drilling Grants

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources (ASX: ERM) has been awarded drilling co-funding grants from the New South Wales government for the company’s Kiola and Kadungle projects.

The Kiola project is situated within the Molong Belt, providing favourable nearology to Alkane Resources’ recent Boda copper-gold discovery and Newcrest’s world class Cadia-Ridgeway copper-gold deposit.

The Kadungle project sits within the Narromine Belt where previous drilling has intersected high-grade gold and copper.

The New Frontiers Cooperative Drilling grants program by the NSW government encourages private exploration drilling in the search of high-value mineral deposits in prospective underexplored areas of NSW and where companies are using the latest technology to identify new deposits.

The $2 million program is a co-funded initiative where the NSW government provides up to 50 per cent of direct drilling costs for individual projects, capped at $200,000.

“Emmerson is well placed to emerge in a very strong position once this COVID-19 crisis allows field activities to recommence,” Emmerson Resources managing director Rob Bills said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“We have exceptional ground positions in one of the Australia’s highest-grade gold provinces at Tennant Creek plus a suite of early mover assets in some of the hottest exploration districts in New South Wales.

“The announcement by the New South Wales government that Emmerson has secured two Cooperative Drilling Grants has not only reduced our exploration costs across both our Kiola and Kadungle projects but is also testament to the potential of these projects to generate new copper-gold discoveries.

“Additionally, we have prudently implemented cost saving measures across our business to help weather the challenging economic conditions we currently face.”

 

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Emmerson Resources to Drill Kiola Copper-gold Targets

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources (ASX: ERM) is in readiness for an exhaustive diamond drilling program at the company’s Kiola project in New South Wales.

Emmerson Resources signalled it is preparing to commence drilling in April to test targets within the 15 square kilometres Kiola Geochemical Zone – an area it considers to host highly anomalous gold-copper and historic workings.

Emmerson commenced the targeting work in 2017 with its strategic alliance partner, which was then known as Kenex Limited but know called Duke Exploration.

Together the two entities deployed data analytics across the Macquarie Arc with the aim of improving success rates of discovery.

Fundamentally, the approach aimed to better understand the critical controls to porphyry gold-copper formation in the Macquarie Arc and provide a ranked portfolio of potential opportunities.

Emmerson has undertaken systematic exploration across its NSW projects utilising traditional exploration methods and new research from the University of Tasmania Arc Linkage project.

“Systematic exploration at Kiola has defined a number of very exciting drill targets that are based on both traditional exploration methods of geology, geophysics and geochemistry plus the application of new, cutting edge techniques developed by the University of Tasmania’s ARC Linkage Project,” Emmerson Resources managing director Rob Bills said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“Kiola was pegged by Emmerson in 2018 from the application of big data analytics – aimed at utilising multiple levels of independent data to pinpoint the next big discovery in the highly prospective Macquarie Arc of New South Wales.

“Stage 1 drilling at Kiola is within the Kiola Geochemical Zone (KGZ) which consists of approximately 15 square kilometres of very elevated gold and copper geochemistry, old historic copper mines, skarns that contain gold, copper and zinc.

“The target area lacks deep drilling to test for the causative source of the gold and copper.”

Emmerson ranks the Kiola project, in particular the Kiola Geochemical Zone, high in its project portfolio where recent work confirmed the KGZ contains many of the attributes of world class porphyry gold-copper mineralisation and is divided into a northern area centred on the Nasdaq skarn, and a southern area around the South Pole, Kiola and Right Hand Creek mine.

Induced Polarisation (IP) geophysics collected in late 2019 reinforced the depth potential of the target areas.

Depending on the visual results from stage 1 drilling, Emmerson indicated these planned drill holes could be extended to provide additional information at depth.

The company signalled its next exploration campaign in NSW is already in the advanced planning stage and will include additional drilling at Kadungle and geophysics at Wellington.

 

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Emmerson Resources Continues Result Run from Tennant Creek

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources (ASX: ERM) declared the initial results from the first three diamond holes completed at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Mauretania project at Tennant Creek as, “exceptional”.

Emmerson Resources carried completed Drill hole MTDD003 that intersected 15 metres at 45.2 grams per tonne gold from 92m, including 4m at 158g/t gold.

The hole was ultimately abandoned in mineralisation due to ground conditions.

The company indicated it had identified visible gold in the lower section of a second hole, MTDD004, and visible supergene copper minerals malachite and azurite identified in the bottom section of the final hole, MTDD005.

Assay results from MTDD004 and MTDD005 plus the remaining lower section of MTDD003 expected later this month.

“This early assay result from our first diamond drill hole at Mauretania demonstrates the exceptionally high-grade nature of the mineralisation at shallow depths and given its association with hematite, provides exciting potential for discovering further similar mineralisation across the Tennant Creek Mineral Field,” Emmerson Resources managing director Rob Bills said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“On a comparative basis, this early result from our 100 per cent-owned Mauretania project suggests the previous program of RC drilling underrepresented the gold grades.

“Furthermore, the indicative grades at Mauretania exceed those seen during similar stage drilling at our recently commissioned Edna Beryl gold mine, which has a mined head grade of approximately 30 grams per tonne gold.

“The diamond drilling at Mauretania is part of a two-stage exploration program with the next stage consisting of deployment of a Sub-Audio Magnetics geophysical survey to map out the strike extent of the mineralisation.

“We thank the Northern Territory Government for awarding collaboration funding to trialling this new technology and look forward to seeing the results.”

Emmerson indicated the trial SAM survey at Mauretania will commence in mid-June 2019, aimed at mapping the extent of the sheared ironstone that hosts the high-grade gold mineralisation.

SAM technology has been developed for simultaneously mapping of electrical and magnetic responses and is a high definition, ground-based technique that has applications to shear hosted gold and copper.

In addition to the Mauretania testing, Emmerson will also apply SAM to the Black Snake – Three Thirty area within the company’s Southern project area.

The results of the SAM survey and the remaining assays from the May 2019 drilling program will be used by Emmerson to plan the next phase of drilling at Mauretania.

 

Email: www.emmersonresources.com.au