Asra Minerals (ASX: ASR) has confirmed the presence of gold mineralisation in the bedrock and prioritised targets to be tested in a larger RC drill program at the Mt Stirling Gold Project in WA.
Significant gold grades were returned from an air core (AC) and reverse circulation (RC) drilling on the Diorite East surface geochemical and geophysical targets identified as high priority during the Mt Stirling Project exploration target ranking stage.
In addition, several strong, untested gold in soil anomalies have been identified at Yttria and Mt Stirling Viserion in vacuum drilling with a maximum grade of 1219ppb Au (1.2 g/t Au).
Highly anomalous gold in soil assays have been returned from assaying of the 2021-2022 vacuum drilling carried out in the vicinity of Mt Stirling and Yttria.
“The air core drilling programme was designed to identify mineralised structures in the East Diorites tenements, and we have successfully achieved this goal,” Executive Chairman, Paul Summers, said.
“We will follow-up on the best intersection with RC drill holes with the aim of discovering new economic mineralisation in this area.
“A fantastic result from gold analyses of the top two metres of the vacuum drilling completed in 2021 to 2022. We will review the most anomalous gold in vacuum soils and prioritise for drill testing.”
AC and RC drilling at the Diorites East Targets
A 78 hole AC drill programme (TAA001-TAA078) and a 12 hole RC drill programme (TAC101-TAC112) testing six targets in the Diorite East region was completed. Drill traverses with AC holes spaced every 20m along the lines intersected the targeted structures with significant gold results returned.
The drilling programme consisted of 1,310m of RC in 12 holes drilled into four discrete targets, and 2,400m of AC drilled into four targets, within the three eastern most target area.
