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Kalamazoo Resources Collects High-grade Gold Rock Chip Samples

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Kalamazoo Resources (ASX: KZR) received encouraging high-grade rock chip sample gold assay results returned from the company’s Mt Piper gold project in Central Victoria.

Kalamazoo Resources received the results from mine waste rock samples collected at the Goldie North prospect within the project area.

The recent field investigation activities followed up earlier rock chip sampling by previous owners of the project at the Goldie North prospect that had defined high-grade gold mineralisation.

Kalamazoo’s work resulted in the collection of an additional 17 rock chip samples from mine waste rocks located adjacent to the Goldie North historical reef workings.

Of the 17 mine waste rock samples collected, three samples reported high-grade assay results of 74 grams per tonne gold, 72g/t gold (incl. visible gold) and 42g/t gold.

A further eight rock chip samples returned high-grade assay results ranging from 16.8g/t to 8.4g/t gold.

The associated multi-element assay data for these samples are still pending.

“The gold mineralised samples consist of micro-fractured quartz veins where fine grained visible gold is observed closely associated with micro-fractures in one of the high-grade samples,” Kalamazoo said in its ASX announcement.

“Whilst investigations are ongoing, the high-grade mineralised samples are coincident with the historical mine workings that appear to be associated with an interpreted approximately 60 metres long NNW-striking tensional link structure between two NE-striking structure.”

 

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Kalamazoo Resources Achieves Excellent Metallurgy Results at Mt Olympus

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Kalamazoo Resources (ASX: KZR) reported results of initial metallurgical test work carried out on several zones within the Mt Olympus gold deposit, part of the company’s Ashburton gold project Western Australia.

Mt Olympus is a large component of Kalamazoo’s 1.65 million ounces of gold mineral resource at the Ashburton gold project.

Kalamazoo Resources carried out the work to determine whether the Indicated and Inferred 15.12 million tonnes at 2.2 grams per tonne gold for 1.08 million ounces Mt Olympus resource would be amenable to the production of a high-grade gold sulphide concentrate via an industry standard crush-grind-float processing circuit, commonly used world-wide on many refractory style gold deposits.

The test work was also used to confirm results from previous work completed by Northern Star Resources (ASX: NST) in 2011-12, when it owned the Ashburton gold project.

The tests achieved excellent gold recovery into an initial rougher concentrate of up to 94 per cent with gold in concentrate grades averaging 31.8g/t gold across all four composites with a maximum value of 39.2g/t gold.

“We are extremely pleased with this initial phase of metallurgical test work at Mt Olympus which substantially de-risks the potential development of our Ashburton gold project in the Pilbara,” Kalamazoo Resources executive director Paul Adams said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Given these positive results, we have immediately commenced the next phase of the metallurgical program which will optimise the flowsheet to enhance performance even further.

“The flowsheet was designed to include a multi-phase cleaner process on the initial rougher concentrate.

“This work had not been performed previously and we are encouraged to see the very significant difference that this has made to the final concentrate grade, especially as this work has yet to be optimised and gravity recovery work is still pending.”

 

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Kalamazoo Resources Expands Victorian Gold Portfolio

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Kalamazoo Resources (ASX: KZR) bp;stered its portfolio of Victorian gold projects after being granted Exploration Licence EL007323, also known as the Myrtle gold project.

The Myrtle project EL is located within the highly endowed Bendigo Zone of the Central Victorian Goldfields and covers 44 square kilometres of highly prospective goldfields geology, 30km south of the high-grade Fosterville gold mine.

The addition of the Myrtle gold project takes Kalamazoo’s Victorian exploration tenure in the prolific Bendigo Zone to approximately 515sqkm.

“The Myrtle gold project is a great addition to our Victorian portfolio, given its proximity to our nearby Castlemaine and South Muckleford gold projects,” Kalamazoo Resources chairman and CEO Luke Reinehr said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“With the Myrtle gold project located just 30 kilometres from the world-class Fosterville gold mine, it will play an important role in our strategy to consolidate exploration tenure in the immediate vicinity of Fosterville and the highly prospective Central Victorian Goldfields.”

 

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Kalamazoo Resources Commences Drilling at the Ashburton Gold Project

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Kalamazoo Resources (ASX: KZR) prepared for the RIU Sydney Resources Roundup by announcement the commencement of a Phase II drilling program at the company’s Ashburton gold project in Western Australia.

Kalamazoo said the Phase II drilling program will target extensions to mineralised trends in shallow locations east and west of the Waugh open pit and within a newly interpreted structure at Connies Find.

Several high-grade steeply dipping, cross-cutting NW-striking mineralised structures at the Peake prospect will be followed up as well as bedding sub-parallel mineralisation at the nearby Titus prospect.

Drilling at West Olympus will test a mineralised north-south striking structure.

“We are very pleased to see Phase II of our drilling program at our Ashburton gold project get underway after months of detailed target generation and drill hole design,” Kalamazoo Resources non-executive director Paul Adams said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“We expect to have strong news flow from early June through to November from this program and look forward to being able to keep the market informed of our progress.”

 

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Kalamazoo Resources to Kick Off Drilling at The Sisters

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Kalamazoo Resources (ASX: KZR) is set to commence a combined RC and diamond drilling campaign at the company’s The Sisters gold project, located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Kalamazoo Resources has designed the approx. 4,900m RC and approx. 800m diamond drilling campaign (around 5,700m in total) for The Sisters gold project, where it has identified five high-priority drill targets via soil sampling, airborne magnetics survey and interpretation, hyperspectral imagery analysis, high resolution satellite photography and ground traverses.

Two of these, the Wattle Plains and Satirist target zones have been selected for initial drilling as soon as the final approvals are granted.

“We have now finalised our extensive targeting program for The Sisters gold project which has identified a number of highly prospective targets,” Kalamazoo Resources director Paul Adams said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“As soon as we receive final approvals, we will look to start our maiden drilling campaign at The Sisters which we anticipate will follow our current Ashburton gold project drilling program, scheduled for completion in mid-December 2020.

“The Sisters project has always been rated very highly by us and this has been further reinforced by recent results by De Grey at its major world class gold discovery along strike at Hemi.

“We have been systematically increasing our knowledge of the area and utilising innovative technologies to assist in identifying potential drill targets.

“The recently completed geochemical soil sampling and aerial surveys have been extremely useful in prioritising drill targets in our search for a gold discovery at The Sisters.”

 

 

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Strategically Placed in Two Highly-Prospective Regions

THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Despite recently spending a fair portion of its energies promoting its recent gold acquisition and exploration developments in Western Australia’s Pilbara, Kalamazoo Resources’ (ASX: KZR) non-executive director Paul Adams spent the bulk of his time at the RIU Resurgence Conference podium talking about the company’s yellow metal assets in Victoria – a state which has been hard hit by the COVID curse. By Mark Fraser.

There was, however, a good reason for this – and it wasn’t because Adams ran out of time.

Rather, Kalamazoo sees plenty of exploration upside at its Central Victorian holdings, where historical production at its Castlemaine and South Muckleford projects has yielded 5.6 million ounces and 2.1 million ounces respectively.

In particular, the company is cognisant that average historical drilling (at least in the Castlemaine project area) has only been to 137 metres depth.

Moreover, there have been two recent developments which have further piqued the junior’s interest.

The first has been Kirkland Lake’s (ASX: KLA) ongoing success at the Fosterville gold mine just to the north east.

Second, Kalamazoo’s maiden 4,500m drill program back in March returned an intersection of 1.42m at 261 grams/tonne gold – a stunning result, which caught the eye of the investment community.

The WA-based explorer is now planning to start a 3,000-4,500m diamond drilling campaign at Castlemaine’s Lightning prospect – which is located at the northern end of the project area – within the next few weeks testing known high-grade historically mined areas.

Another 5,000m of diamond drilling has also been earmarked for Castlemaine’s Wattle Gully and Wattle Gully South targets, which will focus on gold in-soil anomalies as well as test previously identified mining locations.

In addition, Kalamazoo has a 7,000m RC program planned for its South Muckleford project – again focusing on in-soil anomalies.

Speaking after his RIU presentation, Adams told The Resources Roadhouse that the initial work at Lighting would probably go to 400-500m depth.

“This area has really not been drilled too much before, so there will be initially some shallower drilling, and then an expansion of that as we see the results come through,” he said.

“Most of the deeper drilling in the Castlemaine project has been around Wattle Gully, where they produced 4,000 ounces at 11 grams per tonne gold.

“It just hasn’t had any attention for many decades, so we are using advanced geochemistry techniques looking at things like alteration patterns and mica compositions to help us determine where the fluid flow is, and where the heat sources are, and therefore where the fluids will probably come from.”

During August Kalamazoo expanded its gold exploration footprint in WA with the acquisition of the 1.65 million oz Ashburton project from Northern Star Resources (ASX: NST) for $5 million (based on the mining of 250,000 tonnes of ore) and a net smelter royalty.

Covering 217 square kilometres of prospective real estate, Ashburton sits on the edge of the Pilbara Craton around 30 kilometres south east of the iron ore mining town of Paraburdoo. It currently has a JORC-compliant mineral resource of 2.08 million tonnes at 2.5 grams/t gold for the 1.65 million oz.

Ashburton covers four mining leases and three exploration licences – including Mt Olympus (15Mt at 2,2 g/t for 1.080 million oz) and Peake (3.7Mt at 3.4g/t for 399 gold oz), both of which were mined by WA resources house Sipa Resources (ASX: SRI) as part of its Pilbara operation between 1998 and 2004.

Then there’s Zeus (1Mt at 2.2g/t for 72,000 oz), Waugh (600,000t at 3.6 g/t for 68,000 oz) and Romulus (300,000t at 2.6 g/t for 27,000 oz).

During its stay in the region, Sipa produced 350,000 oz from ore grading 3.5g/t, with the majority of the yellow metal coming from Mt Olympus, where 25Mt of ore grading 3g/t yielded 242,000 gold oz.

Under the terms of the agreement with NST, Kalamazoo will pay a 2% NSR on the first 250,000t mined, after which the rate will drop to 0.75%.

Although Adams indicated Kalamazoo is now looking to embark on an extensive exploration and drilling campaign to substantially increase the project’s combined oxide-sulphide gold resources, another of its targets in the region has also starting to gain some serious exploration traction.

Located about 120 km south east of Karratha, the 136 square km (The) Sisters sits on the region’s Wohler Shear some 50 km south west of De Grey Mining’s (ASX: DEG) Malina gold project and the company’s recent world class yellow metal discovery at Hemi.

It is one of three assets the Kalamazoo picked up in 2018, with the others being the Marble Bar and DOM’S Hill gold projects to the east and north east respectively.

Last month the exploration house said numerous geochemical and geophysical gold targets had been identified in the area after a geochemical soil sampling program – incorporating the CSIRO’s Ultrafine+ soil analysis and interpretation technology – identified a broad 2.1km by 1km in soil anomaly, with up to 70 parts per billion gold, near a north-south offset in the Wohler Shear.

This geochemical survey at The Sisters was the first large scale gold-focused exploration program undertaken in this area, and had targeted the Wohler Shear Zone over a 14km long structural corridor.

Importantly, these gold anomaly zones were consistent with magnetic features recently identified by airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys.