Star Minerals Restricted (ASX: SMS, “the Firm” or “Star Minerals”) is happy to advise outcomes are actually out there for a rock chip marketing campaign accomplished in late 2023 on the West Bryah Undertaking. Samples have been collected throughout a reconnaissance journey by skilled SMS geologists. The purpose was to guage the Undertaking for prospectivity for gold deposits much like that outlined by Steel Financial institution (ASX:MBK) on the Livingstone Undertaking, 30km west of the Dimble and Mount Padbury Prospects. Potential for pegmatite hosted lithium mineralisation throughout the Yarlarweelor Gneiss was reviewed as a part of the journey, with analysis of geology publicity.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Outcomes for 19 Rock Chips at West Bryah Undertaking assist Historic Exploration Outcomes at Mount Padbury Prospect and potential of Dimble Prospects.
- Finest Rock Chip outcomes embrace:
- 30.2 g/t Au and a couple of.1% Cu in pattern SMRK055 from Dimble East.
- 12.7 g/t Au in pattern SMRK062 from Mount Padbury.
- 11.1 g/t Au in pattern SMRK061 and 6.83 g/t Au in pattern SMRK059 from West Dimble 4.
- 7.97 g/t Au in pattern SMRK070 from Dimble West.
- Mount Padbury reconnaissance checks historic drilling by Lachlan Assets in 19971 that returned a number of important gold intercepts in RAB and RC drilling, together with down gap intercepts of:
- 12m at 5.66 g/t Au from 0m in RAB gap MPRB015, together with 1m at 59.1 g/t Au from 7m;
- 19m at 2.68 g/t Au from 0m in RAB gap MPRB001, together with 1m at 6.14 g/t Au from 4m and together with 2m at 17.0 g/t Au from 8m;
- 9m at 1.35 g/t Au from 22m in RAB gap MPRB014;
- 4m at 2.69 g/t Au from 35m in RC gap MPRC0002, together with 1m at 7.43 g/t Au from 35m;
- 2m at 2.42 g/t Au from 11m and 1m at 1.16 g/t Au from 20m in RC gap MPRC0004;
- 3m at 1.66 g/t Au from 5m in RC gap MPRC0007; and
- 1m at 8.04 g/t Au from 27m in gap MPRC0008
- Historic drilling and sampling and up to date floor sampling spotlight potential for West Bryah Undertaking to host gold deposits much like the Livingstone Undertaking deposits 30km to the west owned by Steel Financial institution Restricted.
Star Minerals’ Chair, Ian Stuart commented:
“Reconnaissance work on the West Bryah continues to ship important high-grade gold in floor samples, validating the historic dataset compiled by the Firm.
Star Minerals are focussed on constructing understanding of the controls on gold mineralisation on the Undertaking to prepare for drill testing of the a number of targets on the Dimble and Mount Padbury areas.
We’re assured that properly designed applications of contemporary exploration will unveil additional targets on the Undertaking, with all commodities into consideration for concentrating on to go with the quite a few gold Prospects already current”.
The placement of the West Bryah Undertaking is proven within the geology plan for the Bryah Basin area, Determine 1 beneath. The plan reveals the extent of Narracoota Formation and Wilthorpe Formation current within the West Bryah Undertaking, each geology items that host important gold and/or VMS deposits additional north and east within the Bryah Basin.
Determine 1: Location Plan for the West Bryah Undertaking with Regional Mines and Prospects
West Bryah Gold Prospects Overview
The Dimble Prospects and Mount Padbury Prospect have been the principle areas of curiosity through the discipline journey. Determine 2 beneath reveals the placement of the gold prospects on the Undertaking, plus the Yarlarweelor Gneiss advanced, thought of potential for lithium mineralisation. The Dimble Prospects have historic drilling from the Nineteen Seventies – Eighties, along with a number of generations of soil and floor sampling with digital compilation in progress for all historic knowledge. Rock chip outcomes and a excessive density of early 1900s workings exhibit the excessive grade nature of the gold mineralisation at Dimble. There may be good publicity of geology all through the Dimble Space which extends for 9km strike within the east to west route, and a couple of.5km within the north – south route.
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