Dreadnought Resources’ ongoing RC drilling across the Yin trend has confirmed 16 kilometres of mineralised ironstones and extended the C1-C5 carbonatites by three kilometres as it prepares for multiple new rare earth resources at its fully owned Mangaroon project in the West Australian Gascoyne.
Up to six kilometres of high ratio, high-value, NdPr:TREO mineralisation is now being drilled for a third resource upgrade at Mangaroon – set to underpin the initial scoping study not long after discovery was made with historically thick and high-grade intercepts.
And a maiden resource from the C3 carbonatite is anticipated this month, coming from one of two high-grade rare earth and niobium zones discovered across a carbonatite group now extended to nine kilometres long.
Dreadnought Managing Director, Dean Tuck said that over the past month the company had completed infill drilling for its year-end resource upgrade.
“Drilling at C1-C5 has now extended the carbonatites to 9km x 1km and is ongoing. The initial Resource for C3 remains on track for August 2023. These Resources will be factored into future studies. We look forward to additional discoveries within this highly prospective and fertile carbonatite intrusive complex.”
Emerging at Mangaroon
After marking discovery around a year ago with the thickest and highest-grade rare earth ironstone intercepts recorded in the history of the Gifford Creek Carbonatite, Dreadnought has already brought in two resource estimates for Yin, and now holds an Exploration Target for up to 100Mt and 1.2% TREO and plenty of land left to explore.
On top of high-grade zone within the carbonatites, Dreadnought has discovered additional rare earth ironstones at Sabre, Y8 and, Y2, which contain some of the highest NdPr:TREO ratios seen to date.
And RC and diamond drilling are set to soon begin over the Tarraji-Yampi Project in the Kimberley, where early surveys have found no less than 14 lookalikes of the high-grade copper-silver-gold-cobalt-zinc Orion discovery which first put Dreadnought on the map as an explorer to watch.
