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Meeka Metals Encounters New Turnberry South High-Grade Gold Zone

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) has identified a new zone of shallow high-grade gold at the company’s Murchison gold project in Western Australia.

Meeka Metals reported assays from this new zone it encountered on the western side of Turnberry South at the Murchison project.

Assays from the new gold zone include:

25TBGC012
21 metres at 5.13 grams per tonne gold from 51m, including 5m at 15.65g/t gold;

25TBGC011
18m at 3.61g/t gold from 83m, including 4m at 10.85g/t gold; and

25TBGC010
11m at 4.04g/t gold from 52m, including 1m at 22.5g/t gold and 2m at 7.46g/t gold.

The company considers the width of mineralisation and high-grade achieved by the recent drilling is likely to result in an expansion of the Turnberry South stage 1 open pit design.

The company also reports new assays from the high-grade eastern side of Turnberry South.

“We had not previously intersected this high-grade gold zone on the western side of Turnberry South due to the orientation of prior drilling,” Meeka Metals managing director Tim Davidson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“We are now prioritising drill delineation along strike to incorporate into an expanded grade control model and updated stage 1 open pit design.”

 

TO READ THE FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: CLICK HERE

 

 

Meeka Metals Estimates High-Grade Rare Earth Resource at Circle Valley

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THE DRILL SEARGENT: Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) reported an initial rare earth Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for the company’s 100 per cent-owned Circle Valley project in Western Australia.

Meeka Metals has estimated a Mineral Resources of 98 million tonnes at 890ppm total rare earth oxide (TREO) for Circle Valley project.

The Mineral Resource has a high neodymium/praseodymium (NdPr) to TREO ratio of 25 per cent, containing 21,560 tonnes of high value NdPr metal.

Meeka Metals indicated this to be the first rare earth Mineral Resource reported for Circle Valley adding its belief that strong potential for growth exists with shallow high-grade mineralisation trending northwest and remaining open in that direction.

“This initial high-grade Mineral Resource at Circle Valley is a commendation of the diligent work by our team in identifying and then executing on the rare earth opportunity, moving from concept to Mineral Resource in under 24 months,” Meeka Metals managing director Tim Davidson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“The Mineral Resource is reported entirely within an optimised pit shell and supported by metallurgical and economic assumptions from our ongoing test work, ensuring it is a valuable, shallow, high-grade Mineral Resource.

“Results from the most recent phase of 2023 drilling also show the high-grade mineralisation trends northwest and remains open in that direction, providing a compelling growth target.”

 

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REE Results “Exciting” But Meeka Focused on Advancing Gold Project

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THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) announced the highest rare earth grades yet at its Circle Valley project, the same day as it presented to the
2023 RIU Sydney Resources Round-up this week, but the company’s focus remains on its advanced Murchison Gold Project. By Ngaire McDiarmid

Speaking to Resources Roadhouse on the conference sidelines, managing director Tim Davidson said it was really exciting to receive results of up to 7,475 parts per million Total Rare Earth Oxides (TREO) from Circle Valley, near Esperance in Western Australia.

“They’re the highest grades we’ve seen in the drilling at Circle Valley, ever,” he said.

“Generally, you see rare earth grades in the 1,000-2,000ppm … we saw grades from individual samples over 7,000ppm, so five to seven times what you’d expect as a high-grade result.”

He said that set the stage for next phase of work which includes the initial resource estimate, slated for June, understanding the metallurgy and assessing how to monetise the resource.

“We’re getting great results and we’re advancing it but we’re not losing sight of how important the gold is to us,” Davidson said.

“It’s the most important part of our portfolio.”

Meeka is advancing its flagship gold project towards “production ready” and expects to release a prefeasibility study in June.

The Murchison Gold Project has a 1.2 million ounce resource grading 3 grams per tonne across several deposits.

The 1.2 million ounces includes the initial St Anne’s Indicated Mineral Resource of 25,000oz, announced last week.

 

Meeka Metals Reports Initial High-Grade Oxide Mineral Resource at St Anne’s

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) has reported an initial open pit constrained Mineral Resource for the St Anne’s deposit, part of the company’s 100 per cent-owned Murchison gold project in the lead up to the RIU Resources Roundup in Sydney next week.

Meeka Metals has taken the Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for the Murchison gold project to 12.7 million tonnes at three grams per tonne gold for 1.215 million ounces on the back of the newly reported initial open pit constrained oxide Mineral Resource of 270,000 tonnes at 2.8g/t gold for 25,000 ounces.

The company describes St Anne’s as a shallow, high-grade deposit with no prior mining where it has reported initial MRE from surface to a depth of approx. 90m.

The deposit has a strike length of 550m and remains open to the south and at depth presenting potential for an underground Mineral Resource to be reported below the open pit with further drilling.

“Over the 6 months to December 2022, drilling identified shallow, high-grade oxide gold at St Anne’s and we quickly moved to determine a high-confidence Indicated Mineral Resource,” Meeka Metals managing director Tim Davidson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“This decision was strategic, given we knew shallow high-grade oxide material would be a valuable addition to our upcoming Pre-feasibility Study.

“The open pit optimisation constraining the Mineral Resource reflects current mining costs and provides immediate input into our Pre-feasibility Study.

“This approach ensures a conservative and valuable addition to our Mineral Resource is reported for St Anne’s.

“St Anne’s remains open to the south and at depth, and it is likely that with further drilling an underground Mineral Resource will be reported.”

 

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Meeka Metals Drills St Anne’s High-Grade Gold Confirmation

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) reported some healthy gold hits from diamond drilling completed at St Anne’s, part of the company’s 100 per cent-owned Murchison gold project in Western Australia.

Meeka Metals anticipates the drilling results to support a Mineral Resource for St Anne’s, while providing samples for comminution testing and geotechnical information for open pit design.

The company explained the recent assay results confirmed high-grade intervals returned from RC and aircore drilling carried out during 2022.

Assay results included:

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7.8m at 2.69 grams per tonne gold from 50.2m, including 2m at 8.2g/t gold (0.7m of core loss);

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20.7m at 3.29g/t gold from 54.3m, including 12.8m at 5.21g/t gold (4.0m of core loss); and

22SADD003
19.3m at 1.27g/t gold from 39.7m, including 2.5m at 7.04g/t gold () (2.4m of core loss).

“This drilling, completed to support the St Anne’s Mineral Resource, comminution test work and geotechnical evaluation for open pit design has confirmed the high-grade nature of the mineralisation,” Meeka Metals managing director Tim Davidson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“These high grades were evident even after accounting for between 0.7m and 4.0m of core loss, which is assigned zero gold grade when calculating the broader mineralised intercept.

“Additionally, the high gold recoveries, rapid leach kinetics and low cyanide consumption, reported in December 2022 point to St Anne’s making a meaningful contribution to the Pre-feasibility Study due in mid-2023.

“The initial St Anne’s Mineral Resource remains on track for the March 2023 quarter, allowing the impact of this additional Mineral Resource on our other mining centres and mill sizing to be optimised.”

 

TO READ THE FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: CLICK HERE

 

Meeka Metals gets REE Mineral Resource Drilling Underway at Circle Valley

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) has commence infill drilling for rare earths at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Circle Valley project in Western Australia.

Meek Metals reported the 2023 infill program will focus on the north-western zone where high total rare earth oxide (TREO) grades, up to 6,894ppm, are coincident with shallow cover.

The company said the mineralisation at Circle Valley demonstrates a high proportion of the grade, up to around 30 per cent of the TREO grade, as valuable neodymium and praseodymium (NdPr) magnet rare earths.

Meeka indicated it would also be looking to build on the high-grade gold results achieved at Anomaly A.

Delivery of an initial rare earth Mineral Resource is targeted for the June 2023 quarter.

“Results received in 2022 show a shallowing cover profile to the northwest at Circle Valley, corresponding with a +1,000ppm high-grade component of the rare earth mineralisation, rich in NdPr magnet rare earth elements,” Meeka Metals managing director Tim Davidson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“This shallow high-grade mineralisation trends northwest into an undrilled part of Circle Valley, which will be the focus for Mineral Resource drilling now underway.

“Confidence to advance our rare earth projects to the Mineral Resource development stage is bolstered by the positive results from our ongoing metallurgical test program.”

 

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Meeka Metals Claims New Wood Lode Gold Discovery

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) is pleased to report the discovery of a new lode at St Anne’s, part of the company’s 100 per cent-owned Murchison gold project in Western Australia.

Meek Metals’ recent shallow drilling at St Anne’s intersected a zone of strong oxide gold mineralisation, now called the ‘Wood’ lode, on a previously untested contact.

Assays include:

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16 metres at 3.48 grams per tonne gold from 48m, including 8m at 6.17g/t gold;

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12m at 2.48g/t gold from 76m, including 8m at 3.55g/t gold; and

22SAAC128
12m at 1.38g/t gold from 88m, including 4m at 2.27g/t gold.

Assays are pending for a further 25 shallow strike extension holes and drilling remains ongoing.

“The ongoing shallow drilling at St Anne’s continues to expand the footprint of high-grade oxide mineralisation within this large gold system,” Meeka Metals managing director Tim Davidson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“The Wood lode is the first of a number of targets to be tested outside of the Driver and Iron lodes, which sit on the western mafic contact at St Anne’s and where we have been drilling since June 2022.

“This positive early result from the first target in our broader, but disciplined, target testing program highlights the growth opportunity available at our Murchison gold project.

“Reinforcing this is the success the team are having with deeper RC drilling at St Anne’s, which intersected high-grade and visible gold in fresh rock below the oxide horizon, and diamond drilling, which has intersected the shear zone with intervals of sulphides and quartz marking the lode position.

“Core processing is underway with first assay results from the diamond holes expected in December 2022.”

 

TO READ THE FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: CLICK HERE

 

Web: www.meekametals.com.au

 

Meeka Metals Drilling St Anne’s on Track to Murchison Pre-Feasibility Study

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) is in the middle of a RC drilling campaign at the St Anne’s deposit, part of the company’s 100 per cent-owned Murchison gold project in Western Australia.

RC hole 22SARC005 returned positive indications with visible gold observed in the RC chips.

Currently, shallow extensional and RC drill samples are being processed or in transit to the laboratory.

Diamond drilling will commence in early October 2022 and target primary mineralisation below and along strike from hole 22SARC005.

An initial St Anne’s Mineral Resource remains on track for release in the December 2022 quarter.

The company has deferred the current Pre-Feasibility Study to allow the inclusion of St Anne’s.

In addition to drilling underway in the Murchison, a short diamond drilling program has commenced at Circle Valley following up on high grade gold results returned from RC drilling in the first half of 2022.

“The positive results from the ongoing drilling at St Anne’s gives us confidence this large gold system will continue to grow,” Meeka Metals managing director Tim Davidson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“This is reinforced by early indications from RC drilling underway at St Anne’s that has intersected abundant visible gold at the target depth below previously reported shallow, high-grade intersections in the oxide horizon.

“Given the shallow, high grade nature of mineralisation at St Anne’s and the potential for this to have a meaningful impact on the outcome of the Study, we have decided to defer the release of the Study.

“The expanded study incorporating St Anne’s will now be released in mid-2023.

“This will allow us to optimise the impact of St Anne’s on our other mining centres and mill sizing.

“In addition to drilling underway in the Murchison, diamond drilling has commenced at Circle Valley.

“This short program will provide valuable information for a larger drill program commencing in January 2023.”

 

TO READ THE FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: CLICK HERE

 

Web: www.meekametals.com.au

 

Meeka Metals Continues High-Grade Gold Run at Turnberry

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) reported assays from a further seven diamond holes drilled at Turnberry central, part of the company’s 100 per cent-owned Murchison gold project in Western Australia.

Mekk Metals drilled below the 2021 Scoping Study open pit shell to receive assays demonstrating continuity of the thick zones of gold below the planned pit.

Assays also confirmed the high-grade nature of the western lode, which sits 20 to 50 metres to the west of the main zone of mineralisation at Turnberry central.

Results included:

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18 metres at 4.41 gras per tonne gold from 252m, including 10m at 7.26g/t gold and 23m at 2.52g/t gold from 281m, including 10m at 4.31g/t gold;

21TBRCDD027
19m at 2.62g/t gold from 364m, including 3m at 5.46g/t gold; and

21TBRCDD018
16m at 2.18g/t gold from 301m, including 5m at 4.41g/t gold.

“These results continue to demonstrate the broad zones of gold at Turnberry extend below the 2021 Scoping Study open pit design,” Meeka Metals managing director Tim Davidson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Importantly, the high-grade western lode located 20 to 50 metres to the west of the main lode was confirmed to extend 150 metres to the south of previous intersections where visible gold was also logged in drill holes.

“The western lode is a potential underground mine below the planned open pit.

“We are now seeing the depth potential of this highly fertile seven kilometres system that hosts both Turnberry and St Anne’s.

“With these results from Turnberry in hand, our focus is now on drilling out St Anne’s, targeting primary mineralisation in the fresh rock.

“Diamond drilling at St Anne’s will commence in early October 2022.

“This will, provide additional capacity to target primary mineralisation in the fresh rock, while also gathering important structural information about the St Anne’s mineralisation.

“Shallow strike extensional drilling into the oxide zones remains ongoing at St Anne’s.”

 

TO READ THE FULL ANNOUNCMENT: CLICK HERE

 

Email: info@meekametals.com.au

 

Web: www.meekametals.com.au

 

 

Tim Davidson Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) August 2022

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Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) is enjoying exploration success at the company’s gold and rare earth projects in Western Australia. Managing director Tim Davidson zoomed into The Resources Roadhouse to tell Wally Graham how the company hopes to build on this foundation.