Exploration company Western Gold Resources (ASX:WGR) is seeking approvals for drill testing on gold-anomalous zones uncovered at its Gold Duke Project in Western Australia.
The company says it has prioritised the Prince Ivan prospect in the area for exploration, with geological mapping to be conducted to further refine the areas planned for drilling work scheduled to start in Q2 2023.
The company is planning to follow up on prospective geochemical anomalies at Prince Ivan with extensional Ultra Fine Fraction (UFF) soil sampling to the south.
Western Gold reports this planned sampling follows the identification of a 1.6km-long anomaly at the Top Knot shear within the Prince Ivan area, where gold geochemistry has revealed a clear, well-constrained, 200m-wide anomaly.
The company says the anomaly is associated with the Comedy King Fault, along with a series of fault slays on the western margin of the Joyners Find Greenstone belt, located 30km southwest of Wiluna in Western Australia.
Commenting on the discovery and upcoming exploration, Western Gold Resources Managing Director Warren Thorne says: “The discovery of the gold anomaly at Prince Ivan is extremely exciting for the exploration team as it confirms the target generation approach being used at the project.
“…to discover an anomaly of this size and tenor provides continued belief in the project to deliver additional mineral resources”
Prior to WGR, no exploration had been completed on the western margin of the Joyner Find Shear zone, so to discover an anomaly of this size and tenor provides continued belief in the project to deliver additional mineral resources.
Its location adjacent and along strike to Great Western Exploration’s (ASX:GTE) Firebird prospect that is currently being drilled indicates we could be dealing with a newly discovered regional mineralised corridor.
WGR has prioritised exploration at this exciting project, which will include geological and structural modelling, plus drill testing of these gold anomalous zones once approvals are in place.”
Western Gold reports its Gold Duke Project contains a combined Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) of 4.57 million tonnes at 2g/t Au for 293,000 ounces Au.
Western Gold Resources is an ASX-listed company that wholly owns the Gold Duke Project, which is a ‘highly’ prospective brownfields gold project, located west of Wiluna in Western Australia’s midwest.
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