Great Western Exploration Limited (ASX: GTE) has commenced follow-up RC drilling at the company’s Firebird Gold Project in Western Australia.
The Firebird Gold Project is located within the Youanmi Greenstone Belt, comprised of 100% owned GTE tenure and the adjacent Great Western-Dynamic Metals (ASX:DYM) Joint Venture (Great Western earning 80%).
Firebird is 2.5km west of Western Gold Resources’ Gold Duke Project which contains several Mineral Resources reported to JORC 2012 standard, demonstrating the fertility and economic potential of the greenstone sequence.
Great Western recently completed 3,040m of aircore drilling to test the large 3.7km x 400m soil anomalism at Firebird. Results from the broad spaced (400-1,200m x 25m) phase 1 aircore drilling returned encouraging results and confirmed the soil anomaly as insitu, with mineralisation hosted by heavily weathered Archean Greenstones; rock units that host most of Western Australian’s gold deposits.
The follow-up RC drilling programme is targeting the anomalous aircore results, testing the primary material below the heavily oxidised Archean Greenstone mineralisation already identified. Positive results from this programme will guide an extensive drill programme infilling the broad spaced aircore drilling across the large soil anomaly.
Great Western anticipates this RC drilling programme will be completed in early-August 2023, and looks forward to updating shareholders when results are received.
