Alto Metals Limited (ASX: AME) reports strong gold results from ongoing drilling at the Indomitable Camp, within the company’s 100% owned Sandstone Gold Project in Western Australia.
New assay results in this release are from one-metre photon assays relating to 27 RC holes drilled on 80m x 40m spacing at Indomitable East for a total of 3,600m at an average downhole depth of 133m, and four RC holes drilled at Piper for a total of 564m.
The wide-spaced drilling at Indomitable East was designed to step-out and test extensions of the mineralised banded iron formation to the north-west and south-east identified from historical drilling.
The program has successfully intersected shallow gold in multiple holes, with mineralisation defined over a total strike of over 800m and continues to remain open to the north-west, the south-east and at depth.
Significant new shallow gold results from this latest program include:
- 11m @ 1.0 g/t gold from 63m, incl. 4m @ 2.1 g/t gold from 70m, and
- 13m @ 5.4 g/t gold from 80m, incl. 3m @ 16.7 g/t gold from 81m (SRC709)
- 21m @ 1.4 g/t gold from 33m, incl. 2m @ 5.0 g/t gold from 41m (SRC708)
- 21m @ 1.2 g/t gold from 47m, incl. 1m @ 7.5 g/t gold from 56m (SRC700)
Alto’s Managing Director, Matthew Bowles said: “We are pleased to announce further excellent results from our ongoing program at Indomitable, where we continue to define additional shallow oxide gold mineralisation outside the current resource.
“we continue to define additional shallow oxide gold mineralisation outside the current resource”
There is no mineral resource currently defined at Indomitable East and this latest drilling has, along with historical drilling, now defined mineralisation over 800 metres of strike that remains open to both the north-west and south-east.
These results continue to highlight the camp scale growth potential we see at Indomitable, which sits within a much larger 20km gold corridor.
Assays are currently pending from the drilling recently completed at the Musketeer target and the rig has now been moved back to follow up on some of the recently announced shallow high-grade intercepts from Indomitable North, including SRC629 which returned 15m @ 4.2 g/t gold from just 30m depth.”
The Indomitable Camp is currently defined over a 2km strike length and sits within a more than 20km NW/SE trending gold corridor, which also hosts the Vanguard and Havilah deposits, within the ‘Alpha Domain’ priority target area.
RC drilling is ongoing at the Indomitable Camp, focused on resource definition and extensional drilling as part of the updated mineral resource work anticipated to be completed by the December quarter.
Assays are currently pending from more than 4,000m of RC drilling completed the ‘high-grade’ Musketeer prospect located 600m south-west of Indomitable along a parallel trend
Extensional drilling has now recommenced at Indomitable North, following up the recent ‘high-grade’ results announced with further step-out drilling to both the north and east.
Resource and step-out drilling will then be completed at Indomitable, including targeting the ‘gap’ between the northern end of the Indomitable and southern end of Indomitable North optimised pits.
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