Dreadnought Resources (ASX:DRE) has extended the Black Oak gold anomaly to more than 7km after receiving final assays from a 493-hole aircore drilling program at its Illaara Gold Project in Western Australia.
The 35,000m program returned 18m @ 0.8 grams per tonne gold (Au) from 36m to end of hole in ILAC0483, including 3m @ 1.8g/t Au from 51m to end of hole.
Previously reported results from Black Oak include 21m @ 0.3g/t Au from surface, including 3m @ 1.1g/t Au from 3m; and 9m @ 0.5g/t Au from 33m, including 3m @ 1.4g/t Au from 36m.
Dreadnought says the first-pass drilling identified 13 mineralised corridors ranging from about 1.5km to more than 7km in length and totalling over 40km of strike. The corridors contain anomalous gold and pathfinder elements including silver, arsenic, molybdenum, antimony, tellurium, and tungsten.
At the CRA-Homestead prospect, which extends over 2km, results include 30m @ 0.2g/t Au from 90m and 6m @ 0.4g/t Au from 117m to end of hole, including 3m @ 1.1g/t Au from 120m to end of hole.
Managing Director Dean Tuck says the program has reduced the priority area for follow-up drilling from almost 60km² to between 5km² and 10km².
“Having tested only around 10% of the Illaara greenstone belt, we have already identified over 40km of prospective mineralised corridors,” Tuck says.
“A major gold discovery is central to our finding more gold faster strategy, and we look forward to commencing the next phase of aircore drilling and defining targets for RC [reverse circulation] ‘discovery’ drilling in 2026.”
Dreadnought says it plans to begin infill aircore drilling at Black Oak and CRA-Homestead this month to define targets for RC drilling later in 2026. First-pass drilling across additional areas is scheduled for September and October.
Dreadnought Resources owns the 800km² Illaara project, which covers about 70km of the Illaara greenstone belt, 190km northwest of Kalgoorlie. The project also hosts the Metzke’s Find mineral resource of 150,100 tonnes @ 5.20g/t Au for 24,900 ounces.
Write to France Pinzon at Mining.com.au
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