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Southern Cross Gold Drilling Extends Apollo Deep Gold Mineralisation

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Southern Cross Gold (ASX: SXG) received assay results from three drillholes recently completed at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Sunday Creek project in Victoria.

Southern Cross Gold drilled the holes on the Apollo prospect, all of which intersected high-grade mineralisation and extended mineralisation beyond the bounds of the company’s current exploration target area as well as defining continuity in other areas.

Hole SDDSC111 was designed to test the hanging wall position of two high-grade vein sets and intercepted seven mineralised structures, three of which are considered high-grade.

Hole SDDSC112 was drilled in the footwall of the mineralised host and was terminated early due to SXG geologists observing the hole was deviating out of the host position to the south into unaltered sediment.

The hole was redrilled as wedge hole SDDSC112W1 that progressed through the host structure with high-grade gold intercepted on the eastern margins of the Apollo prospect.

SDDSC112W1 contained assayed intervals with three zones of visible gold mineralisation.

Combined both holes intercepted eight high-grade structures.

Hole SDDSC116 was drilled parallel to and 45 metres along strike from SDDSC112/112W1 and was designed to intersect the mineralised hanging wall while SDDSC112/112W1 targeted the footwall.

SDDSC116 contained four assayed intervals greater than 10 grams per tonne gold.

“Sunday Creek has delivered another set of extremely strong high-grade gold and antimony drill results, this time from the Apollo project, located 400 metres east of Rising Sun, which has provided most of the intersection highlights in Sunday Creek over the last six months,” Southern Cross Gold managing director Michael Hudson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Like Rising Sun, Apollo is now catching up with better results intersected at depth.”

 

 

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Southern Cross Gold Drills Sunday Creek Gold Extension

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Southern Cross Gold (ASX: SXG) reported on recent drilling activity between the historic Golden Dyke and Christina mining areas at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Sunday Creek project in Victoria.

Southern Cross Gold announced an encounter with further high-grade mineralisation and two new vein sets from four drill holes undertaken between the targets, from which it has claimed high-grade mineralisation was discovered 250 metres west of previous drilling, representing a 29 per cent increase in the known strike length.

Highlights include:

SDDSC086 (150m west of previous drilling):
2.8 metres at 7.4 grams per tonne gold equivalent (AuEq) (4.4g/t gold, 1.9 per cent antimony) from 252.7m, including 0.5m at 38.4g/t AuEq (22.1g/t Au, 10.3% Sb) from 252.7m, and
3.1m at 21.3g/t AuEq (20.6g/t Au, 0.4% Sb) from 266.5 m, including 1.8m at 35.3g/t AuEq (34.5g/t Au, 0.5% Sb) from 266.5m; and

SDDSC090 (250m west of previous drilling):
9.8m at 4.6g/t AuEq (4g/t Au, 0.4% Sb) from 346.9m, including 2.2m at 12.7g/t AuEq (11g/t Au, 1.1% Sb) from 347.6m.

“With three of four drill rigs operating within the main areas of Rising Sun and Apollo, these holes were drilled in the opposite direction to the west to see if mineralisation extended towards Christina,” Southern Cross Gold managing director Michael Hudson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“We have had immediate success, delivering on SXG’s strategy to demonstrate grade, volume and scale at Sunday Creek.

“Firstly, we have extended the drilled mineralised footprint of the main zone from 850 metres to 1,100 metres along strike.

“Secondly, we intersected two new veins sets hitting 3.1 metres at 20.6 grams per tonne gold (SDDSC086) and 9.8 metres at 4 grams per tonne gold (SDDSC090).

“With only four holes drilled, most of the mineralised host in this area remains untested.

“Thirdly, we intersected high-grades, including 1.8 metres at 34.5 grams per tonne gold (SDDSC086) and 0.4 metres at 42.6 grams per tonne gold (SDDSC090) within broader 3 metres to 10 metres wide vein sets.

“Finally, these results show the potential for multiple repeats and extensions of veins sets at depth in undrilled areas from the most westerly drilling at Rising Sun (SDDSC082) to Christina within 700 metres of undrilled strike potential.

“Further drilling continues to highlight the significance of the Sunday Creek discovery, with extremely high-grades observed across the project, within multiple veins sets (up to 25 defined to date) and more being continuously found.

“With the host extending eight kilometres in length from the Christina to the regional Leviathan/Tonstal prospects we are only scratching the surface of the opportunities that await at Sunday Creek.”

 

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Southern Cross Gold Drills More Big Gold Hits at Sunday Creek

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Southern Cross Gold (ASX: SXG) announced further bonanza grades from the company’s 100 per cent-owned Sunday Creek project in Victoria.

Southern Cross Gold’s latest results come from drill hole SDDSC091 drilled at the Rising Sun prospect, which the company explained has been drilled to target one vein set, RS50, in a NE to SW drill orientation unlike recent west to east drill orientations that had targeted multiple veins.

Results included:

SDDSC091
20 metres (estimated true width 11.6 m) at 63.6 grams per tonne gold equivalent (AuEq) (62.7g/t gold, 0.5 per cent antimony) from 430m, including:
0.4 m at 955.6g/t AuEq (950g/t gold, 3.6 per cent antimony) from 438.4m
0.5m at 1,497.4g/t AuEq (1,490g/t gold, 4.7 per cent antimony) from 438.8m, and
0.6m at 66.5g/t AuEq (65.4g/t gold, 0.7 per cent antimony) from 439.6m.

Southern Cross Gold managing director Michael Hudson said in the company’s ASX announcement.
“Sunday Creek delivers yet again with the second-best individual intersection on the project of 20m at 63.6g/t AuEq (62.7g/t gold, 0.5 per cent antimony) from 430m.

“The hole was significant as it was drilled from the NE to SW to target the RS50 vein set alone, in a scissored orientation to drillholes SDDSC077B and SDDSC082.

“Further drilling continues to highlight the significance of the Sunday Creek discovery, with extremely high grades observed across the project, within multiple veins sets (up to 23 defined to date with more being found), with continuity in individual named vein sets now established over +500m from surface to depth.

“We look forward to seeing the project continue to develop with SXG holding $11.8 million cash as of last quarter, with four drill rigs currently operating and 19 kilometres of drilling planned from now through to April 2024, with many holes still in the laboratory.”

 

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Southern Cross Gold Extends Sunday Creek Mineralised Footprint

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Recent drilling by Southern Cross Gold (ASX: SXG) has extended the company’s 100%-owned Sunday Creek project in Victoria.

Southern Cross Gold received assay results from 12 diamond drill from regional drilling located between 4 kilometres and 8km, along a mineralised structure from the main drill area at the Sunday Creek project.

The company said the drilled mineralised footprint at Sunday Creek has now been extended for more than 8km in east-west strike representing an 8-fold increase in the previously drilled host to gold mineralisation, demonstrating the district scale opportunities that exist for the project.

The drilling encountered high-grade gold, with an anomalous and broad (150m) mineralised halo discovered in first drill holes ever drilled outside main drill area.

Highlights include:

SDDLV003
0.5 metres at 15.7 grams per tonne gold from 87m (including visible gold); and

SDDLV004
0.3m at 5.6g/t gold from 73.4m and 0.3m at 19.4g/t gold from 100.7m.

“Drilling has confirmed the presence of the same dyke breccia host and crosscutting high-grade gold-bearing veins as currently being drilled within the main mineralised zone at Sunday Creek,” Southern Cross Gold managing director Michael Hudson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“The results in this program are commensurate with the very early drilling undertaken in what is now the core drill area at Sunday Creek.

“Excitingly, we have demonstrated an 8-fold extension of the same mineralised structure, with high-grades up to 19.4g/t gold hosted within a broad and extensive host.

“The drill program has proved that the entire 8km trend and beyond at Sunday Creek is highly prospective for future significant gold discoveries.

“Drilling with four rigs continues at the main zone with preliminary visual geological logs of four holes at Rising Sun and one hole from Apollo show multiple zones of mineralisation with visible gold noted in certain restricted zones.

“Assays are pending.”

 

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Southern Cross Gold Strikes Big Gold Hit

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Southern Cross Gold (ASX: SXG) rattled the market with the announcement of “the best hole drilled to date” at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Sunday Creek project in Victoria.

Southern Cross Gold reported recent drilling encountered “a spectacularly wide and high-grade intersection of gold-antimony mineralisation”.

The excitement came from drillhole SDDSC077B undertaken at the project’s Rising Sun prospect that intersected:

404.4 metres at 5.6 grams per tonne gold equivalent (AuEq) (5.1g/t gold, 0.3 % antimony) from 374m (uncut).

The hole traversed 13 individual high-grade vein sets, including seven intervals greater 100g/t gold (up to 2,670g/t gold), 20 intervals greater than 15g/t gold and 20 intervals greater than 5 per cent antimony (up to 55.8% Sb).

“This is the best hole drilled at Sunday Creek, with almost three times more contained gold as our previous best hole,” Southern Cross Gold managing director Michael Hudson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“It is also one of the top drill holes drilled globally by any ASX-listed gold company this year.”

 

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Southern Cross Gold Scores Big Sunday Creek Gold Hit in Deepest Hole

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Southern Cross Gold (ASX: SXG) returned home from the RIU Sydney Resources Round-up and quickly announced new drilling results from the company’s 100 per cent-owned Sunday Creek project in Victoria.

Southern Cross Gold reported results from drillhole SDDSC064 that returned:

1.2 metres at 121.8 grams per tonne gold from 889.6 m.

The company explained this to be from the deepest mineralisation at 830m vertically below surface, scoring a 115m down-dip extension and one of the two highest grade intersections to date, behind the previous intersection from drillhole SDDSC061 of 12m at 7.4g/t gold equivalent (AuEq), including 0.3m at 249.5g/t AuEq.

Southern Cross also highlighted the importance it is placing on the increasing abundance of visible gold at depth at Sunday Creek that is typical for epizonal deposits.

“SDDSC064 intersected five high-grade veins with visible gold, including 1.2 metres at 121.8 grams per tonne gold,” Southern Cross Gold managing director Michael Hudson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“This is the deepest mineralisation and one of the two highest grade results drilled to date at Sunday Creek.

“The scale of the mineralised system continues to grow and deliver significant results at a globally leading hit-rate.

“At Sunday Creek, and as is typical for epizonal deposits (for example Fosterville and Costerfield, Reefton (NZ)), visible gold becomes increasingly significant at depth.

“The hole importantly extended mineralisation to depth, being a 115 m down-dip extension from SDDSC061.

“It demonstrated increased frequency of high-grade mineralised vein sets.

“Further, it has defined continuity and increased strike length (up to 60 m) of individual veins and defined a broad mineralised halo intersecting 212.8 metres at one gram per tonne gold around high-grade mineralisation.”

 

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