Western Australian gold explorer BMG Resources Limited (ASX: BMG) has commenced Diamond Drillingat the Abercromby Gold Project in the north-eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.
The next phase of diamond drilling follows the completion of a follow-up programme of regional air core drilling is complete.
The diamond drilling programme at the greater Capital prospect area comprises 8 holes for ~3,700m, and is aimed at resource definition and extension of the high-grade gold lodes identified to date. 57 regional aircore holes for 5,428m across three large gold anomalies have now been completed. The anomalies were identified by recent sub-audio magnetics and aircore drilling completed earlier this year in the southern portion of BMG’s Abercromby tenure.
Two more aircore holes are planned for early July. Both programmes build upon the successful drilling campaigns completed at Abercromby earlier this year which more than doubled the size of the resource envelope.
It’s fantastic to have a diamond rig back on site at Abercromby to build on the success of our drilling campaigns completed just a few months ago,” BMG Managing Director, Bruce McCracken, said.
“We’ve also made great progress over the past month with the follow-up air-core drilling of the large regional gold anomalies identified to the south of Capital, which has now wrapped-up.
“These programmes will continue to delineate the significant high-grade orebody at Capital as we progress towards maiden resource definition and test gold anomalies to the south identified by recent SAM and aircore drilling.
“These are exciting times for the company and we look forward to updating investors as our drilling progress continues and results come to hand.”
Diamond Drilling
About 3,700m is planned to be drilled over the next 3 months. Initially, drilling will focus on extending and infilling southern extensions of the Capital mineralisation.
The planned holes include a 650m re-drill of 21ABDD004, which suffered terminal drill rod failure at 360m prior to its target depth designed to test extents of the West Lode.
As previously announced, 21ABDD004 intersected 10m @ 11.71 g/t Au from 295m in the East Lode, 250m south of the existing mineralisation, confirming a very significant depth extent to the shallow high-grade mineralisation at Capital.
The drilling will also test around the deeper intersection returned from the West Lode in 21ABDD003 which intersected 13.8m @ 6.56m g/t Au from 446m.