Artemis Resources (ASX: ARV) is preparing for a busy 2025 after announcing its intention to appoint of Julian Hanna, a highly experienced and accomplished mining industry executive as the company’s Technical Director.
“We look forward to welcoming Julian to the Board and expect he will add significant value to the company through his experience in discovering and developing tier one mineral deposits," Guy Robertson, Chairman of Artemis, said.
"Julian will join the board at an exciting time as we focus on discovering new gold deposits, located near Artemis’ existing 374,000 oz gold resource at the Karratha Gold Project. Artemis is fortunate in having a person of Julian’s experience to assist the exploration team in identifying exploration targets and progressing them towards possible mine development.”
Since joining Artemis as Senior Technical Advisor, Mr Hanna has also been instrumental in assisting with the development of the exploration strategy for 2025.
A number of high priority targets have been identified within the Carlow tenement which are planned to be drilled starting in early 2025. These include the Marillion EM anomaly, which is interpreted to be a large, strongly conductive body offset by a fault from the eastern end of the Carlow gold resource and the Titan prospect where high grade rock chip samples from outcropping veins peaking above 10,000 g/t Au have been reported previously.
The Carlow deposit is also high on the list of priorities for drilling to test the potential for significant high-grade gold and copper extensions at depth. The Thorpe, Chapman, Europa and Carlow North prospects, located within 3km of the Carlow deposit, are also prospective for gold mineralisation and are planned to be drilled during 2025.
Drilling at Carlow and Marillion has already been cleared and will progress rapidly in early 2025.
In addition to the 100% owned Carlow tenement which hosts the existing mineral resource at Carlow and other advanced gold targets included in this release, Artemis holds 100% of the Silica Hills tenement and 100% of the gold rights over the Osborne tenement.
Osborne is subject to a joint venture with Greentech Metals ASX:GRE, for lithium.
The north Pilbara region which extends >250km from west to east contains a host of commodities and two world class deposits. These deposits are the Andover Lithium Project, located ~12km east of Carlow, and the Hemi Gold Project located ~150km east of Carlow.
“Artemis has potential for further gold discoveries on its extensive holdings in what is shaping up to be a rapidly emerging gold province in the north Pilbara region,” Mr Hanna said.
“Having reviewed the project, I consider the Artemis tenements are highly prospective for future gold discoveries, notably along a wide structural corridor which has had minimal previous drilling. The Karratha gold project also holds a number of advantages including proximity to first class infrastructure in Karratha and a very experienced exploration team in Perth and on site.”