Corazon Mining (ASX:CZN) is planning follow-up drilling at its Wembley prospect, after maiden reverse circulation (RC) drilling at the Feather Cap Gold Project in Western Australia confirmed ‘high-grade’ gold mineralisation.
The 2,000m, 20-hole RC program at the Feather Cap Project returned ‘standout’ intercepts including 4m @ 10.6 grams per tonne gold (Au) from 66m and 4m at 9.2g/t Au from 65m.
Managing Director Simon Coyle says the results validate the company’s targeting model at Wembley and provide confidence that the system has meaningful scale.
“These are outstanding first results from our maiden drilling program at Wembley,” Coyle remarks.
“Not only have we reproduced the shallow, high-grade gold mineralisation seen in the historical drilling, we have also extended it along strike and demonstrated that the Wembley Line is a coherent, structurally controlled gold system.
“Intercepts of 4m at 10.6g/t, 4m at 9.2g/t, and 2m at 5.7g/t are exactly the type of results we set out to find. They give us confidence that the Wembley system has meaningful scale and that further drilling can grow it materially.”
The program tested beneath and along strike from historical workings at the Wembley Line, with 14 holes intersecting a strong ‘high-grade’ zone at approximately 55m vertical depth. The best intercept sits approximately 60m east of historical drilling, with the mineralised structure remaining open at depth.
Additional results include 2m @ 5.7g/t Au from 64m and 4m @ 2.84g/t Au from 68m.
Six holes tested the interpreted regional Wembley structure south of the main workings, returning anomalous gold grades including 2m @ 0.76g/t Au and 1m @ 0.65g/t Au.
The historical Wembley mine produced approximately 1,050 ounces of gold from 1,510 tonnes between 1926 and 1935, with an implied recovered grade of approximately 21g/t Au. The new drilling confirms ‘high-grade’ gold mineralisation along the same structural position as the historical mining.
Feather Cap covers approximately 154km2 within the Bryah‑Padbury Basin in WA and is strategically located near Westgold Resources’ (ASX:WGX) Fortnum Gold Mine and adjacent to Great Boulder Resources’ (ASX:GBR) Durack gold deposit.
Corazon is planning a follow‑up drilling program to test strike and depth extensions of the confirmed Wembley Line mineralisation, with the objective of supporting an initial exploration target and potential maiden mineral resource estimate.
Corazon Mining is a WA gold explorer with a portfolio that includes the Chalice and Two Pools gold projects, as well as its Lynn Lake Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Sulphide Project in Canada.
Write to JC Villarba at Mining.com.au
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