Evolution Mining and Westgold Resources have provided exploration updates for their gold operations across Australia.
Evolution Mining
At the Cowal project in New South Wales, drilling has returned mineralised intercepts such as 91 metres (m) grading 2.5 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 91.0m in drill hole RDU0062 and 12.0 grading 4.3g/t gold from 273m in drill hole RDU0059.
Significant assay results were also returned from extensions to the Ernie Junior and Bert orebodies at the Ernest Henry project in Queensland.
Mineralised intercepts from the drilling include 66.5m grading 1.29g/t gold and 0.83 per cent copper from 142.9m from the Bert orebody and 32.6m grading 0.87g/t gold and 0.87 per cent copper from 339m from the Ernie Junior orebody.
“The drilling results announced today continue to excite us and reiterate the potential for additional mineralisation in key domains outside of mineral resources at both Cowal and Ernest Henry,” Evolution Mining vice president discovery Glen Masterman said.
Westgold Resources
The Western Australian gold explorer recently completed a gravity geophysical survey at its Day Dawn mining centre.
The survey identified five new high priority drill targets along the Fingall Dolerite, which is the host of the Great Fingall and Golden Crown mines.
It also outlined geological faults that control mineralisation at Great Fingall and Golden Crown can be mapped in the gravity data with distinctive visible offsets at the contacts between the Fingall Dolerite, the Hangingwall and Footwall Basalts.
These structures weren’t mapped in previous aeromagnetic data so the gravity survey has generated five new targets that may bring additional mineralisation for the company.
“Drilling has successfully extended the mine lives of our key assets during 2023 and allows us to now take a more strategic view of our organic project pipeline,” Westgold managing director Wayne Bramwell said.
“The Fingall Dolerite holds many shallow mines and lacks deep drilling across its 11km strike. With newly acquired data sets yielding blind targets across this fertile belt, our exploration teams are now prioritising these targets to test during H2, FY24 (the second half of the 2023–24 financial year) to find the next Great Fingall.”
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