Torque Metals (ASX:TOR) reports the findings from a review of historical drilling in the 1.5km of area between the HHH and Paris open pits, which in conjunction with Torque’s own exploration at the Paris Project, has greatly enhanced the prospectivity between the two pits.
The Western Australian-focused gold explorer reports that this suggests potential for a material upgrade to the company’s wholly owned Paris Project, located to the Southeast of Kalgoorlie on the ‘richly gold endowed’ Boulder-Lefroy Fault Zone.
An aircore (AC) drilling program is planned to investigate the link between the HHH and Paris pit mineralisation, where the company suspects that the 1,500m N-S distance between the 2 mines contains connecting mineralised gold zones.
Some of the best historical results include:
- 4m @ 3.5 g/t Au from 30m (16AC010)
- 8m @ 1.38 g/t Au from 48m, 2m @ 2.29 g/t Au from 28m (HHHS_002)
- 5m @ 1.07 g/t Au from 45m (HHHS_003)
- 3m @ 3.42 g/t Au from 57m (21HRC010)
- 3m @ 6.60 g/t Au from 72m (21HRC009)
- 6m @ 2.07 g/t Au from 30m (21HRC013)
Torque Metals’ CEO, Cristian Moreno, commented: “The Paris Project continues to demonstrate great promise for Torque Metals shareholders.
“The Paris Project continues to demonstrate great promise”
We have now completed four successful drilling campaigns since listing in mid-2021 generating numerous significant intercepts, such as the recently reported 27m @ 10.77 g/t Au for hole PRC40 and have delineated strong gold mineralisation spanning some 600m in strike, with great expansion capacity.
Our most recent findings from review of historical drilling in the 1500m between the HHH and Paris pits, suggest that Paris could evolve into a very significant Western Australian gold project, with a large potential to expand not only in the East-West direction, but also in a North-South trend, with a promising extension of more than 1500 metres between the historic pits.
We clearly have the foundations for exploring a “Big Pit” potential at the Paris project. Grades between Paris and HHH/Caruso show a possible link driven by parallel structures. We look forward to drilling between these prospects soon to test this theory.”
A ground Moving Loop Electromagnetic (MLEM) survey commenced to test for conductive nickel sulphides at the Domingo, Melchior, and West Melchior nickel prospects at the end of the quarter.
Torque advises that the data processing and interpretation of these surveys is approaching completion. Follow-up targets will be drill tested as soon as feasible.
Torque Metals is a mineral exploration company with an exciting portfolio of ‘high-grade’ gold deposits in Western Australia. Torque’s flagship project is the wholly owned Paris Gold Project, located in the Western Australian Goldfields, 40km NE of the Higginsville gold mine.
Torque also holds the Bullfinch Gold Project near the Copperhead mine, approximately 40km north of the town of Southern Cross in WA. In addition to this, Torque has the right to earn 80% in 3 Exploration Licenses held by Jindalee (ASX:JRL) located adjacent to the Paris Gold Project.
Torque’s Paris Project area remains vastly underexplored, with past drilling generally restricted to the top 50 metres, highlighting significant opportunities for discovery of gold mineralisation by the application of modern-day exploration techniques and the undertaking of more extensive, and deeper, drilling.
Since listing on ASX in 2021, Torque has already undertaken three drilling campaigns at Paris with the objective of better defining the zones most likely to rapidly increase the project’s gold resource base, so far Torque has discovered six prospects within the “Paris Gold Corridor”.
Write to Adam Orlando at Mining.com.au
Images: Torque Metals Limited
