E79 Gold Mines (ASX:E79) has booked a heritage survey for early October ahead of its maiden drilling program at the Cue Gold Project in Western Australia.
Key tenements have been granted at the project, encompassing the advanced Ada and Chloe exploration targets. The heritage survey will cover more than 10,000m of planned air-core and reverse circulation (RC) drilling across the 65km2 project area.
CEO Ned Summerhayes says the grant of several key tenements represents a milestone and provides a clear pathway for planned drilling.
“We have been able to rapidly advance activities at the Cue Gold Project on a number of fronts following the recent execution of a Heritage Agreement with the Yugunga-Nya Traditional Owners,” Summerhayes notes.
“With a heritage survey now scheduled and environmental and statutory approvals progressing, we are well positioned to commence exploration activities in the coming months.”
The program will target cross-cutting structural corridors identified through a recent gravity survey. Drilling will commence in late October, representing the first modern large-scale drilling campaign at the project in nearly three decades.
RC drilling will focus on the advanced Chloe and Ada targets. Historical drilling at Ada returned results including 13m @ 2.2 grams per tonne gold (Au) from 112m and 16m @ 1.53g/t Au from 48m, including 8m @ 2.4g/t Au.
At Chloe, historical drilling returned 4m @ 6.96g/t Au from 90m, including 2m @ 13.04g/t Au, and 10m @ 2.55g/t Au from 12m, including 2m @ 10.7g/t Au.
The Cue Gold Project lies within the Murchison Gold Province, immediately south of the historical Day Dawn goldfield.
E79 Gold Mines is an Australian explorer advancing a portfolio of gold and copper projects across Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Write to JC Villarba at Mining.com.au
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