Perth-based mineral exploration company Westar Resources (ASX:WSR) has completed its maiden aircore (AC) drill program at its Gidgee North Project in Western Australia.
Westar says drilling comprised 134 drillholes for 5,064m with an average depth of 38m, and was designed to test multiple priority gold and supergene copper-zinc targets within an interpreted sequence of sheared, faulted, and folded greenstone-granite terrain.
The company notes these intersections were completed adjacent to in-soil anomalies previously identified by Westar. These anomalies are viewed to be ‘highly encouraging’, with the company eagerly awaiting pending assays in order to refine drill targeting for follow-up works.
Drilling was completed primarily on the southern portion of the tenement on a variable drill spacing to drill refusal, with holes being nominally sampled using 4m composites, along with separate bottom of hole sampling for multielement analysis.
Westar Resources Executive Director, Lindsay Franker, addressing the completion of the drilling, says: “Westar is pleased to report on the completion of drilling activities for the maiden AC program at the Gidgee North Project.
“Drilling has clearly demonstrated we are in the right rock-types to potentially host gold and base metal mineralisation…”
Drilling has clearly demonstrated we are in the right rock-types to potentially host gold and base metal mineralisation, and we plan to follow this maiden drilling program up with an accelerated program subject to receipt of assay results.”
The company also notes the numerous gold and copper-zinc targets within the southern portion of the tenure were generated and refined through its ‘extensive’ datasets.
Additionally, drilling in the central areas of the tenement highlighted the potential for gold mineralisation with observations from the western end of the central gold exploration drilling area, demonstrating intensely foliated basalt, consistent with tight folding and foliation observed in outcrop.
These holes are adjacent to historical gold in soil anomalies and proximal to the granitic body forming on western boundary of the Gum Creek Greenstone Belt (GCGB), which is interpreted to form a ‘large’ synclinal structure with lithologies and structures hosting many of the prospects and resources on the eastern limb repeated in Westar’s tenure in the western limb.
With drilling now complete, Westar Resources announces its geologists will proceed to integrate drillhole logging observations into the litho-structural model and await assays prior to planning the next stage of exploration.
Westar Resources is an ASX-listed mineral exploration company focused on creating value for shareholders through the discovery and development of ‘high quality’ precious and future metal assets in WA. The company’s projects are strategically located in the ‘highly prospective’ Pilbara, Murchison, and Yilgarn regions of WA.
The Gidgee North project is situated about 640km northeast of Perth and comprises 6 tenements including the Geoff Well farm-in project (E53-1832-I) covering an area of approximately 430km-square.
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