Pursuit Minerals (ASX:PUR) reports high-grade’ exploration results at its Commando Gold Project in Western Australia.
The results are from works across its portfolio of advanced and ‘highly prospective’ exploration tenements adjacent to multi-million-ounce gold deposits 38km north from Kalgoorlie.
Commenting on the works program, Pursuit Managing Director, Bob Affleck said: “Rock chip sampling around the Oriental, Porphyry and Whisperer prospects have returned very high-grade results and the multi-element assay work undertaken now allows us to fingerprint the differing styles of gold mineralisation regionally, further refining future drill areas while we await our maiden AC drilling program results.”
“Rock chip sampling around the Oriental, Porphyry and Whisperer prospects have returned very high-grade results”
In May 2022, prior to the June AC drilling, the company collected 74 rock chip samples. At Oriental and Porphyry prospects samples were collected largely around historical pits, costeans and shafts sunk by prospectors in the early part of the 1900s and therefore had ‘higher’ gold values.
At Whisperer prospect rock chipping of sub-cropping rocks was carried out around the Whisperer shaft on a semi grid basis and therefore had lower gold levels. These Aqua Regia assay results have provided multi-element signature catalogues of the various styles of orogenic mineralisation present, helping to categorise and prioritise project areas.
‘Outstanding’ assay results at Oriental up to 113.5 g/t Au have been located, which complement other ‘high-grade results’ of 108 g/t Au and 10.5 g/t Au reported in May.
Sampling around the shallow workings highlights 6 zones of mineralisation and confirmed that previous north-south orientated drilling may have not optimally explored the prospect.
Mapping around the shafts and costeans confirms the mineralisation dips to the NW (310 325 degrees) at 50-72 degrees. A re-oriented drilling program focussing on this dip orientation to target higher-grade zones is likely to upgrade the prospectivity of Oriental.
Oriental lies 1,200 metres NE and along strike of the Havana pit, part of the Golden Cities gold deposits (Federal, Havana, and Suva, 1.5Moz Au).
Combining these results with the historical drilling also identifies significantly under-drilled zones of mineralisation, to the north and south of the current drill areas, which has been undisturbed by prospectors due to shallow cover.
