Barton Gold (ASX:BGD) reports a recently extended reverse circulation (RC) drilling program has been further expanded at the Tunkillia Gold Project in South Australia.
The company says the drilling program will now include up to about 2,000m of diamond drilling (DD) targeting the depth extensions of the 223 Deposit, and the new around 500m long Area 51 gold zone recently announced in September.
This program will inform an updated Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) at Tunkillia, where the company states the project’s gold footprint has grown ‘significantly’ thorough the discovery of 3 new gold zones since November 2021, which includes 223 North, Area 191, and Area 51.
Barton Gold Managing Director Alex Scanlon says the company will continue to be encouraged by what it is seeing in-field.
“The addition of diamond drilling across both the 223 Deposit and Area 51 will generate significant additional information for mineral resource and structural modelling.
We are aiming to complete this drilling before year end, the results of which will inform an MRE update based on more than 30,000m of drilling completed since our June 2021 IPO.
We expect our first RC assay results shortly, with the balance of RC and DD assays to be released during December, January and February.”
“We expect our first RC assay results shortly, with the balance of RC and DD assays to be released during December, January and February”
Barton Gold is an ASX-listed Australian gold exploration company with a pipeline of projects in the central Gawler Craton of South Australia including the Tarcoola and Tunkillia Gold projects, as well as the Central Gawler Mill.
The company has a total attributable 1.1Moz Au JORC (2012) Mineral Resources endowment (28.68Mt @ 1.2 g/t Au), a pipeline of advanced exploration projects and brownfield mines, and 100% ownership of the only regional gold mill in the central Gawler Craton of South Australia.
Tunkillia has a Mineral Resource of 965,000oz Au (26.1 million tonnes @ 1.15g/t Au).
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