Western Mines Group (ASX:WMG) has dug diamond drill hole MTRC009 at the Mulga Tank Project in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields to a depth of 1,437.5m, finishing exploration for 2025.
The company intends to restart drilling mid-January to extend the hole and confirm the prospectivity of its nickel sulphide component to the greater system, along with reverse circulation drilling to follow thereafter.
To date, the hole has intersected around 900m of magnesium oxide with disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation and several massive sulphide veinlets and segregations.
A sport portable x-ray fluorescence survey returned up to 55% nickel at the prospect, highlighting an active zone at the base of the complex.
Drilling at hole MTRC009 was half-covered by the Western Australian Government’s Exploration Incentive Scheme, funding up to $220,000 of drilling costs.
Managing Director Caedmon Marriott says the hole highlights “what an extensive nickel sulphide mineral system the Mulga Tank complex hosts”.
“There were some beautiful intersections of disseminated sulphide mineralisation down the hole, coarsening up to 10% in places in the lower portion,” Marriott says.
“The basal 100m of the hole encountered frequent high grade and high tenor remobilised massive sulphide veining and large massive sulphide globules or segregations, probably the best examples of any hole to date.
“This again validates our exploration thesis that there is very likely a massive sulphide component to the huge Mulga Tank system. Mapping these occurrences, combined with geochemical results, we hope will help vector towards their source.”
Western Mines Group is a junior mineral explorer focused on a range of critical and battery minerals in Australia.
Write to Maddison Elliott at Mining.com.au
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