Carnavale Resources Ltd (ASX: CAV) has commenced an aggressive programme of RC drilling at McTavish East following up on excellent, extensional high-grade gold results from previous RC drilling in fresh rock that identified high-grade gold shoots at the Kookynie Gold Project in Western Australia.
The substantial 25 hole, 5,000m RC drilling programme targeting infill and down dip extensions of the high-grade plunging shoots at the McTavish East Prospect identified by RC drilling in fresh rock has commenced.
Previous exceptional RC results at McTavish East results included:
- 6m @ 79.21g/t Au from 97m (inc.3m @ 152g/t)
- 4m @ 75.74g/t Au from 114m (inc.3m @ 100.25g/t)
- 8m @ 13.65g/t Au from 116m (inc.1m @ 25.9g/t and 3m @ 24.5g/t)
- 5m @ 24.56g/t Au from 79m (inc.3m @39.43g/t)
- 7m @ 16.15g/t Au from 67m (inc.1m @ 83.2g/t and 1m @ 15.15g/t)
Resource definition drilling to 20m x 20m in the high-grade zones.
McTavish East mineralisation style, grade and scale shows growing similarities to the previously mined nearby Cosmopolitan Gold Mine.
CEO, Humphrey Hale, said Carnavale’s goal at the Kookynie Gold Project is to establish a quality high grade gold resource, of a similar size to the historic Cosmopolitan Mine, that can be trucked and processed at a nearby processing plant.
The recent outlining of substantial high-grade gold shoots has been a great discovery for CAV at Kookynie,” Mr Hale said.
“CAV has successfully mobilised an RC rig to start an aggressive campaign of drilling within a month of announcing the exceptional RC drilling results in July. This substantial 5,000m RC programme is designed to infill the known high-grade mineralisation at McTavish East on a 20m by 20m pattern, as resource definition drilling, and chase the high-grade mineralisation down dip and along strike.”
“Carnavale identified the Kookynie-Leonora region as highly prospective with known past and current high-grade mines, yet significant areas, mostly undercover, remained under-explored by modern methods.
“Since 2021, the prospective McTavish East Prospect trend has been defined over approximately 2km with aircore drilling. Extensive historic gold mining occurred between 1895 and 1922 throughout the Kookynie area, including the Cosmopolitan mine, the largest gold producer where historic high-grade gold production that amounted to more than 331,000 ounces of gold at 15g/t.
“Carnavale’s goal is to explore and define high-grade, truckable resources, of a similar size to the historic Cosmopolitan Mine that can be processed at an existing third-party nearby processing plant. The McTavish East Prospect is located 15km from Genesis Minerals Ltd’s Ulysses Project and 63 km from a newly acquired processing plant at Leonora.”
In January 2022, initial RC drilling intersected high-grade gold mineralisation associated with strong quartz veining which is structurally controlled with a number of higher-grade plunging shoots emerging.
The most recent RC drilling programme (1,550m) extended the defined high-grade gold mineralisation by an additional 250m to the north-east and now defines a zone over +700m long with mineralisation to approximately 150m depth. Aircore drilling results indicates additional targets remain untested along another one km of strike.
