SensOre (ASX:S3N) reports it has uncovered gold mineralisation from a first pass targeted aircore (AC) drilling program at its Boodanoo Project in Western Australia.
The company says assays have identified new gold mineralisation and are the cumulation of systematic exploration at one of the first mineral systems identified by the company’s Discriminate Predictive Targeting (DPT) over the past 2 years, and exploration involved a systematic target test including ground gravity survey and surface sampling, as well as geological mapping and an AC drilling program.
It states the conventional program was augmented by data fusion and interrogation by machine learning applied to multi-element geochemistry prior to drilling, and newly discovered mineralisation is associated with quartz sulphide (pyrite and pyrrhotite) veining in fresh medium grained amphibolite below a shallow weathering profile.
“The discovery is validation of SensOre’s machine learning and artificial intelligence predictive approach and is highly encouraging”
SensOre CEO Richard Taylor said whilst the drilling results are at an early stage, the newly identified gold mineralisation is an area not recognised for gold potential or previously drilled.
“The discovery is validation of SensOre’s machine learning and artificial intelligence predictive approach and is highly encouraging, indicating potential for an economic mineral system.
The results demonstrate how a staged, methodical exploration program augmented by SensOre’s machine learning and artificial intelligence tools can be used in combination to assess, de-risk and advance exploration projects.
Consideration is now being given to follow-up drilling being planned for 2023.”
SensOre reports the Boodanoo Project is located in the Windimurra-Narndee belt at the eastern margin of the Murchison domain of the Youanmi Terrane, and the contacts of the Windimurra Complex with the supracrustal sequence are generally sheared and cut by major north-south striking Challa Shear Zone, a splay of Cundimurra Shear Zone occurring on the western side of the tenement.
The first order Challa Shear Zone to the west of the new mineralisation is interpreted to be a major splay fault of the Mt Magnet or Tuckabianna Shear Zone, inferred to control the gold mineralisation at the 3.3 million ounce Meekatharra and Tuckabianna gold deposits.
The drilling program undertaken by Kennedy drilling in the first quarter of this year, comprised 35 AC holes for 1,143m, and the company reports initial sampling of 4m composites produced encouraging results from 2 holes (22BDAC002 and 22BDAC006), and additional sampling of 1m splits from these holes were completed in September with over 1g/t results received confirming the target as an area of interest.
SensOre aims to become one of the top performing minerals targeting companies in the world through the deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, specifically it’s DPT workflow which collects all available geological information in terrane and places it in a multidimensional ‘hypercube’ or data cube to predict known endowment and generate targets for further discovery.
The company holds a portfolio of wholly owned and joint ventured technology metals tenement packages across Western Australia including the Balagundi, Marloo and Maynards Dam projects in the Kalgoorlie region, the Desdemona North, Christmas Well and 8 Mile Well projects in the Leonora region.
It also has assets including the Tea Well, Tea Well JV, Tea Well East, Sandstone Road and Mogul Well projects in the Meekatharra region, the Mt Magnet North JV and the Boodanoo Project in the Murchison region, the North Darlot JV Project in the Yandal region, and the Moonera JV Project in the Nullarbor Plain.
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