The Wajarri Yamaji Aboriginal Corporation (WYAC) has completed a heritage survey at Black Dragon Gold’s (ASX:BDG) 100%-owned Padbury Gold Project, near Meekatharra in Western Australia.
It clears the way for Black Dragon’s drilling programme to test the source of gold nuggets at surface along an eight km gold trend across multiple prospects, prioritising the Fenceline, Ross’s Bore and Honey Pot prospects.
Padbury Gold Project believes its tenements have the potential to host a large Intrusion Related Gold Structure (IRGS) located on the northern Yilgarn Margin.
The Heritage Survey was completed with senior members of the WYAC and a Company representative.
It was completed following Black Dragon’s recent approval announced to drill up to 30 holes at its Padbury Gold project, permit EL51/1942. The proposed exploration programme was formulated following the company’s successful geochemistry sampling programme that confirmed a regional eight km gold trend, coincident with a WNW-ESE striking structural grain and coincident to the gold nuggets discovered at surface.
Following DMIRS approving Black Dragon’s Programme of Works to explore for up to 30 drill-holes at our Padbury Gold project, the company moved quickly to mobilise and collaborate with Wajarri Yamaji Aboriginal Corporation to undertake the heritage survey clearance work,” CEO and Managing Director, Gabriel Chiappini, said.
“We’re pleased to now have a clear pathway to drill and test our hypothesis that there is the potential for a large structurally controlled intrusion-related gold target at Padbury Gold. We’re pleased that we have progressed the Padbury Gold Project from acquisition in July 2022, to geochemistry testing in Q4-CY22, granting of a drilling permit Q1-CY23, to now being able to test for an Intrusion Related Gold Structure in Q2-CY23.”
The project includes a compilation of prospector identified gold occurrences and following the company’s geochemistry sampling programme in Q4-CY22, Black Dragon has established a strong coincident relationship between the at surface discovery of the gold nuggets and gold soil anomalies.
The locations of the surface gold nuggets have been supplied to the company under an agreement with prospectors. Gold has been recovered using non-mechanical methods (metal detecting) with both free gold nuggets and gold in quartz, which is presumed to be eroded from nearby bed rock sources. In total 65 individual sites have been recorded and follow a broad WNW-ESE trend similar to the gold-in-soil sampling.