Western Gold Resources (ASX: WGR) has announced visible copper oxide and sulphide mineralisation following maiden RC drilling at the Brilliant Shear Zone prospect within its Wiluna West Gold Project in Western Australia.
The results, generated from the first RC drill campaign to be conducted along the zone, provide ‘significant’ exploration upside for copper-gold mineralisation along 5km of strike length.
Previous notable gold intercepts from Brilliant include:
- Hole DDH08: 4m @ 27.78g/t Au from 112.9m
- Hole CR100: 7m @ 14.74g/t Au from 21m
- Hole CR047: 3m @ 8.68g/t Au from 40m, 5m @ 1.64g/t Au from 50m, 1m @ 1.83g/t Au from 67m and 2m @ 5.90g/t Au from 71m
- Hole C724: 5m @ 2.23g/t Au from 15m and 10m @ 2.82g/t Au from 35m
- Hole C246: 5m @ 3.16g/t Au from 10m
Speaking on the results, WGR Managing Director Warren Thorne said: “We are highly encouraged to have discovered visible Copper mineralisation with our first holes at the Brilliant prospect, but more importantly the recent drilling shows the potential of the Brilliant Shear Zone to host Cu-Au mineralisation along its 5km strike length.
“the recent drilling shows the potential of the Brilliant Shear Zone to host Cu-Au mineralisation along its 5km strike length”
The deep weathering within the project area also supports WGR’s exploration model that many of the historic holes drilled were ineffective and we believe significant upside resides at depth. With drilling just starting at Brilliant the exploration team is excited to understand the Cu-Au mineralisation style present and use the knowledge to target further Copper mineralisation.”
This current drilling campaign is focused on targeting steeply-plunging gold shoots below historic underground workings at Brilliant and North Brilliant.
The Company also notes that these results provide early indications that a 10-12m wide shear zone hosts copper-gold mineralisation, however accurate values will be reported once assay results are returned.
The 85.8km² Wiluna West Gold Project contains historic mine workings including the Brilliant and North Brilliant mines, which produced 7,850 tonnes @ 14.27g/t Au during the 1920’s.
With RC drilling at Brilliant ongoing, WGR reports that it will prioritise an exploration campaign in order to target and identify the source of the copper mineralisation.
First assay results are expected in late May 2022.
Images: Western Gold Resources Ltd
