Sentinel Exploration (NSX:SOX) is preparing for its first aircore drilling campaign at its Menzies West Gold Project in Western Australia, focused on its 100%-owned tenement P29/2726.
Slated to begin this month, the fully permitted program comprises approximately 1,200m of planned surface traverses, with total holes and drilling metres to be finalised depending on ground conditions.
The program is designed to test the underlying weathered bedrock beneath historical shallow gold anomalies near the interpreted Goongarrie Monzogranite-greenstone contact.
Sentinel pegged the Menzies West ground following a review of historical auger and soil sampling datasets. The review returned peak values of up to 70 parts per billion (ppb) gold (Au) from auger sampling and 80.4ppb Au from Ultrafine soil analysis.
Sentinel Managing Director Simon Adams notes that the company’s review of Menzies West has not identified any bedrock drilling beneath the targeted anomalies within P29/2726.
Menzies West is located 3km southwest of Menzies and 130km north of Kalgoorlie in the Eastern Goldfields. The package comprises granted prospecting licence P29/2726 and adjoining tenements P29/2727 and P29/2728.
“The proposed aircore program provides a logical next step to test the weathered bedrock beneath the anomalies and help determine whether they reflect an underlying source. The results will guide the location and scale of any further exploration,” Adams says.
Sentinel Exploration is a Perth-based, science- and AI-driven mineral explorer focused on gold and critical metals in WA.
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