Great Western Exploration (ASX:GTE) has mapped out an upcoming diamond drilling program at its Oval and Oval South copper–gold targets in Western Australia.
The company is in the process of finalising access agreements. A heritage survey has been completed and both areas are approved for drilling, which will begin in September 2024.
Drilling comprises four holes for 600m to 800m each. Both targets share multiple coincident geological and geophysical features to the giant Winu and Haverion intrusive-related copper-gold deposit.
Great Western, which has a market capitalisation of $8.7 million, says the program will focus on the coincident gravity and electromagnetic anomalism at both targets, which is interpreted as representing potential metal-rich sulphide mineralisation.
Oval and Oval South lie within the Yerrida North Project, adjacent to the DeGrussa and Monty copper-gold volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposits.
The company has identified multiple “key ingredients” at the targets, which enhances the discovery of a giant Winu-style intrusive related copper-gold system.
These include zones of dense rocks that are conductive interpreted to represent obscured metal rich sulphide mineralisation, magnetic anomalism, a crustal scale feature stretching greater than 500km long, and favourable stratigraphy.
Oval and Oval South also have an intersection of the Ida Fault by a basin defining growth structure and are positioned within an east-west intrusive corridor.
Write to Aaliyah Rogan at Mining.com.au
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