Ready to follow up previous gold finds at Pilbara project.
Aruma Resources Ltd (ASX: AAJ) has identified highly anomalous gold results at the company’s Melrose Gold Project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The targets have been identified at the Gossan Hills prospect (within Exploration Licence Application ELA08/3188) at the Melrose Project. located just 5.5 km north of Northern Star Resources Limited’s Paulsens Gold Mine.
Managing Director, Peter Schwann, said the highly encouraging results have been returned from a desk top study of the Melrose Project by Aruma, compiled from historical exploration results sourced from an open file Minedex report as part of its first stage of project assessment and exploration targeting at the Project.
A priority exploration target defined by a substantial 500m by 120m geochemical soil anomaly was identified, adjacent to a shallow-dipping contact – between Fortescue Group Pyradie Formation mafic tuffs and Wyloo Group Duck Creek Dolomite.
Mr Schwann said quartz veining and gossanous outcrop is evident within the dolomite host. Due to the orientation of the anomaly, which is transverse to the stratigraphic contact, drilling was designed to test a north-northwest trending structure coincident with the anomaly.
Historic drilling conducted by previous tenement holders, NuStar Mining Corporation Ltd
- 1m at 2.74g/t Au in hole GHC0004; and
- 1m at 1.44g/t Au in hole GHC0006.
Of greater importance, multiple broad zones of anomalous gold mineralisation were also intersected, within both dolomite and sandstone, including;
- 11m at 0.42g/t Au in hole GHC0004;
- 24m at 0.22g/t Au in hole GHC0006;
This was reinforced in later Northern Star work which delineated more thick anomalous zones in the area. These zones are indicative of powerful hydrothermal carbonate alteration in the area and the proximity to the high-grade carbonate-sulphide zone found in the nearby Paulsens Lode.
- 27m of 0.3g/t Au in hole PGHRC22; and
- 4m at 0.60g/t Au in hole PGHRC04.
These results correspond with the interpreted structure, which is of similar orientation to the mineralised envelope at Paulsens. This structure represents just one of a number of similar sub- parallel, regional-scale structures in the area and presents as a high priority exploration target for structurally-controlled gold mineralisation.
