Great Southern Mining (ASX:GSN) is ready to begin exploration activities pending the completion of a heritage survey currently underway at the Edinburgh Park Project in Queensland.
Speaking to Mining.com.au after the company’s presentation at the 2023 Gold Coast Investment Showcase, Great Southern Mining Managing Director Matthew Keane discusses how the company has planned to drill 2 specific targets.
“We have actually planned drilling over 2 of the targets. So, Molongle and our Mt Dillon target areas — we actually have planned drilling programs there. We’re ready to go, just pending heritage survey completion, which we’re currently working on.”
“We’re ready to go, just pending heritage survey completion, which we’re currently working on”
Additionally, Keane says the company’s next programs will be follow-up reverse circulation (RC) drilling at the Southern Star prospect, which is within the Duketon Project, and the Golden Boulder prospect.
Great Southern is also planning to drill out 3 prospects into resources over the coming year and to provide resources to junior explorers that may not have the means to do so.
The Managing Director says: “It’s the game of the mines that’s happening in and around the Leonora and Laverton regions. A lot of those mills are being taken on by new companies, but they don’t actually have resources.
“we see ourselves being part of that as basically a resource developer”
So we see ourselves being part of that as basically a resource developer. So hopefully we’ve got some strategic value there, which I think underpins our value.”
Furthermore, the company is exploring partnership opportunities that may arise from its Edinburgh Park Project.
Keane says the company is searching for ‘large-scale’ epithermal porphyry deposits, which can require a lot of funding, exploration, and deep holes.
“To do it justice, you actually often need a bigger purse,” he says.
The company is currently in discussions with prospective partners and is advancing these conversations with a number of parties.
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