The drilling will seek down-dip and along-strike extensions to the gold mineralization mined in the period prior to the mine’s closure in 1939.
Earlier this year, the company’s reported results from its first round of drilling at the mine site included a best result of 17.0m grading 2.9g/t gold, including 2.3m grading 16.1g/t gold within a 35m thick interval grading 2.0 g/t gold.
Grades to 55 g/t gold (1.8 ounces gold per tonne) were also reported over narrow intervals.
The deepest hole from that program intersected the mineralized mine sequence in the predicted position below the mine workings confirming continuation of the mineralization at depth.
Further drilling is also planned to test a number of recently defined geophysical targets around the mine site and at prospect E1 as well as to re-test Anomaly 23 where a down-hole and surface IP survey around the company’s drill hole 10LD006 suggested that this hole missed the target which is strong and indicative of massive sulphide mineralization.
The program will comprise around ten holes for around 1,000m of diamond drilling and is expected to take six weeks to complete.
