Trek Metals (ASX:TKM) believes the Zahn and Coogan prospects, within the Christmas Creek Gold Project in Western Australia, are emerging as ‘large-scale’ gold targets.
The company has received individual metre assays from Zahn, which has upgraded the potential of this area as an ‘important target’.
A reinterpretation of the magnetic data also highlights a geological model that has emerged, which indicates that Zahn has classic characteristics of an orogenic gold camp.
Zahn is considered the largest and highest amplitude gold-in-soil anomaly at Christmas Creek.
Meanwhile, interpretation of soil sampling data has outlined extensive multi-kilometre scale targets at Zahn and Coogan. Trek says this further enhances the discovery potential at Christmas Creek.
CEO Derek Marshall says the newly refined targets at Zahn represent high-priority drill targets for the upcoming field program.
“The Zhan prospect has always stood out in the surface geochemistry when looking at the Christmas Creek Project as a whole and these recent results, put into geological context, are a significant step in the right direction to hone in on the source to the significant gold-in-soil surface expression,” Marshall says.
“Interpretation of project wide soil geochemical data has demonstrated that two multi-kilometre scale targets exist at Christmas Creek and are likely related to large-scale mineral systems.
“These are the types of systems that can provide sufficient fluid flow to produce a meaningful accumulation of metal.”
Marshall adds that the company is gearing up to get the rig spinning at Christmas Creek as soon as feasible. The drilling program aims to target high-priority targets in the largely undercover location in Western Australia.
The Christmas Creek Project, located southwest of Halls Creek, covers 1,182km2 of gold and rare earths prospective ground in Western Australia.
Write to Aaliyah Rogan at Mining.com.au
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