Antipa Minerals (ASX:AZY) has announced it is extending drill holes at the Tim’s Dome prospect to test an electromagnetic conductor beneath further gold-copper-lead-silver intersections extending over about 1km of strike.
The latest results cover five reverse circulation (RC) holes at the prospect within Antipa’s wholly owned Minyari Dome Gold-Copper Project in Western Australia’s Paterson Province.
Selected holes are now being deepened with diamond core tails to reach the untested conductor, which extends approximately 1.2km and measures 200–470m wide.
The results build on earlier drilling that outlined mineralisation over 500m of strike, as previously reported by Mining.com.au. Antipa said excessive groundwater had prevented the RC rig from reaching the conductor, prompting plans to deepen selected holes with diamond tails.
Hole 26XTDC0060 returned 10m @ 1.5 grams per tonne gold (Au) from 242m, including 1m @ 10.1g/t Au. The hole reached within 60m of the conductor’s western edge and also encountered arsenic and antimony pathfinder anomalism in its lower section.
Managing Director Roger Mason says results from the third batch reinforce Tim’s Dome as one of the company’s priority targets.
“The geological setting, metal association, and geometry of the conductor continue to support the Telfer-style reef interpretation we are currently about to test, with diamond tails on several select RC holes now underway,” Mason says.
“We expect to reach the AEM [airborne electromagnetic] conductor target in the coming weeks and will eagerly await results.”
Elsewhere, drilling extended mineralised hanging-wall lodes at GEO-01 Main Zone. Partial assays from diamond hole 26XMDD0555 returned 10m @ 1.1g/t Au, 0.07% copper, and 1,328 parts per million cobalt from 136m. Further assays remain pending.
Reported intersections are downhole lengths, with true widths not always known.
Drilling at AL01 defined three additional gold-copper and pathfinder anomalies, each extending 500–700m. Work along the Yolanda Trend also identified a copper anomaly extending 2.1km, with overlapping arsenic and zinc anomalism.
Antipa has completed 290 holes for 33,091m of its planned 321-hole, 41,000m phase-one program. Three rigs remain active across Tim’s Dome, Minyari Dome, and Jezabeel.
A $180,000 Western Australian Government Exploration Incentive Scheme grant will co-fund diamond drilling at Tim’s Dome.
Antipa Minerals is an Australian explorer and developer focused on discovering and advancing gold-copper deposits across its 4,500km² wholly owned Minyari Project in WA.
Write to France Pinzon at Mining.com.au
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