Hamelin Gold (ASX:HMG) reports it has resumed reverse circulation (RC) drilling at the Hutch’s Find and Camel prospects, as part of its West Tanami Gold Project in Western Australia.
Drilling has recommenced with a goal of testing along strike and down dip of ‘high-grade’ gold mineralisation discovered in the company’s first drill program at the Hutch’s prospect and the ‘high-grade’ gold trend defined by diamond drilling at the Camel prospect.
Previous drilling at the Hutch’s prospect targeted a 2.5km long gold anomaly and returned shallow, ‘high-grade’ gold mineralisation, with key intercepts including, 12m at 4.50g/t Au from 6m including 6m at 8.10g/t Au from 8m in drillhole TLR0001.
The presence of this ‘high-grade’ gold in drillhole TLR0001, as well as within historical drillhole HFDD0004 (10m at 5.4g/t from 123m), indicates a potentially developing ‘high-grade’ gold system within the prospect.
All of these results confirm the company’s belief that the systematic exploration of the belt scale West Tanami project boasts the potential to deliver ‘high-grade’ gold discoveries in areas of previously ineffective shallow drilling.
A total of 2,500m of drilling is planned in the current program and is expected to be completed by mid-November this year, with assays expected in early 2023.
Addressing the re-commencement of drilling, Hamelin Gold Managing Director, Peter Bewick said: “The announcement on 10 October 2022 of the discovery of shallow, ‘high-grade’ gold mineralisation in our first drill program at Hutch’s Find was a ‘significant’ milestone for the company. The new mineralised structure intersected in TLD0001 is open both along strike and at depth.
“The exploration team has done a fantastic job to get this program going in this short timeframe”
Within three weeks announcing this discovery the company has secured an RC rig and is now back drilling at Hutch’s. The exploration team has done a fantastic job to get this program going in this short timeframe and we are all very excited by the potential for the discovery of further ‘high-grade’ mineralisation at this large scale gold prospect.
RC drilling has also been planned to test the exciting Camel prospect where ‘high-grade’ gold mineralisation in diamond drilling and surface rock chip sampling has identified a 600m long, northwest trending target zone that has seen limited previous drilling.
The 2,500m RC drill program will be completed by mid-November 2022 with assay results expected in early 2023.”
The company also notes that previous drilling at the Camel prospect confirmed the emergence of a well mineralised, depth extensive gold system.
In addition, a northwest trending array of ‘high-grade’ gold veins, identified by EIS co-funded diamond drillhole TSD0005 from the Camel prospect, are coincident with a 600m long corridor of sparce drilling where ‘high-grade’ surface rock chip samples were recently mapped.
Hamelin Gold is an ASX-listed gold exploration company based in Perth, Western Australia which currently holds 100% interest in the West Tanami Gold Project in Western Australia. The project represents a belt-scale Greenfields opportunity that covers a total land area of 2,277km-square within a well-endowed, emerging gold province that is ‘significantly’ under-explored.
With drilling now back underway, Hamelin Gold announces that following the completion of the Hutch’s Find drilling, it will move the RC rig to test a series of targets within the Camel region, including the main northwest target zone and the Newkirk geochemical anomaly.
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