Danakali (NSX:DNK) has completed a soil and stream sampling program across priority targets at its Orson Nickel-Copper-Platinum Group Element Project in Western Australia’s Gascoyne region.
The program comprised 330 ultra-fine fraction soil samples, 63 stream samples, and 37 rock chip samples, alongside geological mapping.
Danakali will integrate the pending results, expected in early 2027, with its field observations to generate multiple drill targets. The findings will also inform the company’s exploration program for the 2027 field season.
Field mapping has identified amphibolite and ferricrete rock types coinciding with numerous magnetic anomalies.
The host rock source of the nickel-copper-platinum group element (Ni-Cu-PGE) anomalism remains confirmed. However, Danakali expects the recent sampling and pending petrography to help identify the probable source rocks.
“The location of the Orson Project at the boundary of the Narryer Terrane and the Errabiddy Shear Zone remains highly prospective and under-explored for Ni-Cu-PGE intrusion-hosted mineralisation, and orogenic shear-hosted gold,” Executive Chairman Seamus Cornelius says.
The Orson Project sits in a region which defines the margin between the Archaean Yilgarn Craton and the Proterozoic Glenburgh Terrane.
The region hosts numerous sites of ionic-clay hosted rare earth element mineralisation, related to weathering of monazite bearing gneiss. This includes the nearby Tower resource of 100 million tonnes @ 840 parts per million total rare earth oxide.
Danakali is a precious and critical minerals explorer and developer focused on its asset portfolio in the Arabian-Nubian Shield and Australia.
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