Iltani Resources (ASX:ILT) is moving to Orient East to start a JORC resource infill drilling program after completing drilling Orient West.
The helicopter borne Orient project VTEM (versatile time domain electromagnetic) survey has also finished and data processing is expected to be completed in about four to six weeks.
Managing Director Donald Garner says the diamond drill rig has completed the drillholes at Orient West (two holes) and at Orient East (two holes) and has since been demobilised.
The core is being logged and processed and will shortly start to be cut and submitted for assay. The Herberton VTEM survey has also been completed, with a total of 520 line kilometres flown (versus the original design of 474 line kilometres).
The initial ‘raw’ data was reviewed by Iltani’s geophysical consultants, and they recommended the additional flight lines be completed to follow up on the initial results. Additional (infill) flight lines were added over the Boonmoo epithermal system and in the vicinity of the Union Jack deposit.
Garner says the silver and base metals explorer looks forward to seeing if the VTEM survey has successfully mapped the lateral extents of the Orient System plus generated multiple anomalies within the Boonmoo Sag Caldera.
“Being able to target the lateral extents of the Orient system should enable us to add additional shallow high-grade mineralisation to the mineralisation already defined at Orient East and West, positively impacting the overall Orient investment case,” he says.
“Over the next few months we should see a steady flow of results, with assays pending for drillholes ORR078 to ORR095 (Orient West), the results of the diamond drilling, plus we should also start to see the results of the Orient East JORC Infill drilling program and the results of the VTEM survey.
“Once we get the VTEM survey results, we will design a drilling program to test the lateral extents of the Orient System and get boots on the ground in the Boonmoo Sag Caldera to ground-truth any targets generated.”
The Orient East JORC infill drilling program will consist of a total of 25 reverse circulation holes drilled for a planned 5,120m. The planned drilling is expected to take six weeks to complete.
A diamond drill rig has completed two drillholes at Orient East (for 486.5m drilled) as part of the program. The core is being logged and processed and will shortly be dispatched for assay.
The Herberton Project consists of 367km2 of wholly owned tenements in the Herberton Mineral Field, with the majority of tenements located some 20km west of the mining town of Herberton in Northern Queensland.
The Herberton mineral field is a highly prospective terrain with a long history of mining. Tin deposits discovered in 1880 – more than 2,400 historic mines and prospects known in the Herberton-Mt Garnet region. The area has been mainly worked for tin, but also tungsten, copper and silver-lead-zinc plus bismuth, antimony, molybdenum and gold.
Write to Adam Orlando at Mining.com.au
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