Western Australian-focused gold explorer Torque Metals Limited (ASX:TOR) has received highly anomalous geochemistry results from an auger based geochemical soil sampling programme at the company’s wholly-owned Paris Project in Western Australia.
Paris is located on the richly gold endowed Boulder-Lefroy Fault Zone, south east of Kalgoorlie.
The new programme covered approximately six kilometres of the gold mineralised corridor to the south of the Paris Pit with the aim of extending the Paris Gold Corridor southwards.
Torque received results from 341 auger sample points located 100m apart on E-W lines 250m apart (broadly spaced). The results identified a ~600m continuous NNW gold anomaly exists close to the “Paris South” prospect – approximately 1.5 km to the SSE of the Paris mine with a peak value of 249ppb.
Executive Chairman, Ian Finch, said in addition, the results highlighted two distinct gold anomalies in the previously unexplored area, approximately 3.7kms to the SSE of the Paris Mine – “Pavarotti” and “Carreras”.
Importantly, all the recent gold geochemical anomalies line up in an NNW orientation and further confirm the potential of a “Paris Gold Corridor”.
It is highly exciting that our geochemical programme has identified a gold anomaly spanning some 600 metres and two separate and distinct, gold anomalies in a previously unexplored area. All new anomalies line up in a north-north-west orientation,” Mr Finch said.
“This provides further weight to our ‘Paris Gold Corridor model, confirming that we are on the right track to significantly increasing our gold resource base.
“We have already kicked off RC drilling at the Paris South prospect while aircore drilling is planned for Carreras and Pavarotti. In addition, new geochemistry surveys are being planned for north of Observation – so it’s going to be a busy period ahead for the company with lots of news flow.”
Next Steps
An initial RC drilling campaign is already underway at the Paris South prospect with further drilling planned to test this anomaly.
At the Carreras and Pavarotti areas, anomaly enhancement drilling (Air Core) will be undertaken to test these two anomalies when a suitable rig becomes available.
Meanwhile, the company is planning to undertake new geochemistry surveys to the north of the Observation discovery in the second half of the year.
