Eastern Resources (ASX:EFE) has planned to return to the Marengo Gold Project in the coming months after maiden fieldwork identified a continuous 1.7km vein system.
The company completed initial reconnaissance fieldwork at the project, located approximately 45km southeast of the 1.1-million-ounce Mt Carlton Gold mine in Queensland.
The exploration program focused on locating historic workings and identifying vein extensions using mapping and sampling techniques.
The work targeted One Mile Mountain, Sulphide Shaft, and Seymour’s Reef prospects across a 750ha area, representing a 9km-by-2km northwest-trending zone.
“The fieldwork has led to the discovery of a prospective north-south oriented vein system at Reza’s Reef prospect,” Executive Director Myles Fang says.
“The vein system has approximately 1.7km of continuous strike length reaching an estimated width of 1m and is accompanied by up to two parallel veins of similar width.”
The 60 rock chip samples have been sent to the laboratory for gold and pathfinder elemental analysis, with results expected shortly.
“We look forward to returning to the Marengo Gold project in the coming months to pursue a further exploration program,” Fang adds.
Further exploration activities will include focused mapping and sampling across promising prospects, as well as rock chip sampling across the newly discovered strike between One Mile Mountain and Homeward Bound.
Eastern Resources will prepare a drilling program and documentation for a further exploration permit after identifying multiple drilling targets during the fieldwork.
The Marengo Gold Project is located approximately 35km southwest of Bowen, Queensland, within the prolific Queensland mineral belt.
Write to JC Villarba at Mining.com.au
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