Asra Minerals (ASX: ASR) has contracted K-Drill to carry out an upcoming drill programme at the Kookynie and Mt Stirling Gold Projects in Western Australia’s Goldfields region.
K-Drill has long-term agreements with many top tier mining companies in Western Australia and is operated by a team of respected professionals with decades of experience drilling and mining in the Goldfields region.
A reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling program is scheduled to commence this week at the historical Gladstone, Orion and Sapphire gold mines located on the Kookynie East Project.
The drilling programme will consist of 450m of RC in 6 twinned holes, three of which will have 100m diamond drill core tails.
The objective of the drilling campaign is to validate the historical high-grade gold intersections.
The RC/DD drilling programme will allow Asra to gain confidence in the historical drilling, and collect valuable structural information, that will inform resource growth targets and applications to the regional geological model.
“We are excited to kick off our drilling campaign at the highly prospective Kookynie Gold Project near
Leonora in partnership with K-Drill,” Executive Chairman, Paul Summers, said,
“This area has a history of exploration already completed at the former Orion and Sapphire mines, which led to Asra’s exploration team identifying several high-priority drill targets.
“We are entering an exciting era of exploration at Asra with this drilling campaign as we endeavour to uncover the next major gold discovery in the prestigious Goldfields mining region.”
The company is also planning an extensive aircore (AC) drill programme to test high priority anomalies defined at Mt Stirling and Kookynie Gold Projects. An aircore drilling of up to 8,000m is planned to test numerous geochemical structural and stratigraphic targets, with results guiding a further 4,000m follow- up RC drilling programme.
