Golden State Mining (ASX: GSM) is processing priority gold drill programme approvals for drilling in the Pilbara’s Mallina Basin in April 2025.
The company is preparing for a planned 4000 metre air-core (AC) programme to test targets suggested by RSC Consulting (RSC).
The company has now submitted a heritage survey request with the Kariyarra Aboriginal Corporation with a proposed completion date in Q1 25.
“GSM is very fortunate to have accumulated just over ~594 sq km of tenements in the highly prospective Mallina Basin in the Pilbara,” Managing Director, Michael Moore, said.
“In addition, we are located adjacent to the highly significant De Grey Hemi gold discovery which continues to go from strength to strength. As previously reported, we commissioned highly regarded industry consultants RSC to conduct a review of all our previous work at Yule upon which they identified three gold target areas where they suggested GSM focus its exploration efforts in 2025.
“With a regionally significant gold exploration footprint and a substantial database of information from which to leverage our next phase of exploration efforts we believe this is an exciting time for not only the company, but also shareholders as we look forward to executing a 4000m, three target drilling programme in early April 25.
“It is pleasing to be able to confirm progress on approvals at our Southern Cross East project where we have previously defined a robust ‘gold in soil’ anomaly supported by associated gold pathfinder elements which were defined in our previous soil survey campaigns.
“Being close to an interpreted major structure and fault splay does suggest the potential hallmarks of a buried gold mineralization system. With no one else having previously identified this potential gold opportunity and no past exploration, we feel the work that GSM has conducted so far more than justifies the execution of a targeted drill programme over the soil anomaly area.”