The final three drill holes from a recent reverse circulation (RC) drill program by Astral Resources NL (ASX:AAR) at the Kamperman Prospect within the Feysville Gold Project in WA, further support the company’s geological interpretation of a broad, 30-metre-wide zone of consistent high-grade gold mineralisation.
These results come as Astral prepares a maiden mineral resource estimate (MRE) for Kamperman, which it expects to report in the current quarter as part of an updated MRE for the broader Feysville Project.
Best results from the final three drill holes from the 26-hole (2,808 metres) RC infill and extensional drilling program at Kamperman include 10 metres at 5.04 g/t gold from 99 metres and 32 metres at 2.13 g/t from 125 metres.
Astral commenced the 26-hole RC drill program at Kamperman in July, aiming to reduce drill spacing to a 40 by 20-metre pattern for resource estimation. Several extensional holes, stepping out to the east on existing drilling lines, were also undertaken.
Gold mineralisation had previously been delineated at Kamperman through RC drilling over a strike length of at least 450 metres.
These latest results continue to support the interpretation of a very continuous, steeply west-dipping zone of high-grade gold mineralisation in the southern part of the deposit.
Kamperman’s most successful drill program
“We had already considered this 26-hole drill program to be the most successful program completed to date at Kamperman, and when you include these final three holes – we are now certain of it!” said Astral Resources managing director Marc Ducler.
“These latest results strengthen our geological interpretation of a broad, 30-metre-wide zone of consistent high-grade gold mineralisation across multiple sections in the southern part of the Kamperman Deposit. This bodes well for the upcoming maiden mineral resource estimate for Kamperman as part of the wider Feysville Gold Project.
“The exploration focus has now returned to the Theia deposit, the cornerstone of our flagship Mandilla Gold Project, where the first phase of a new infill RC drilling program commenced early this month.
“On completion of the phase one program, Astral will return to Feysville for further infill and extensional RC drilling at Kamperman, as well as follow up on two significant greenfield gold anomalies announced in July 2024 to the northwest of Kamperman.”
Location of drill collars from latest RC program.
The Feysville Gold Project is within the north-northwest trending Norseman–Wiluna Greenstone Belt, within the Kambalda Domain of the Archean Yilgarn Craton, around 14 kilometres from the KCGM Super Pit in Kalgoorlie.
Significant gold and nickel mineralisation occurs throughout the belt, including world-class deposits such as the Golden Mile Super Pit in Kalgoorlie owned by Northern Star Resources (ASX:NST) and the St Ives Gold Mine south of Kambalda owned by Gold Fields Ltd. The area also hosts the substantial Beta Hunt Gold Mine owned by Westgold Resources.
Feysville hosts an MRE of 3 million tonnes at 1.3 g/t gold for 116,000 ounces of contained gold at the Think Big deposit, providing a foundation for the project to potentially become a source of satellite ore feed for a future operation based on Astral’s flagship Mandilla Gold Project.
Mandilla Gold Project update
Astral has also confirmed that a 6,000-metre phase one infill RC program commenced at the Mandilla Gold Project’s Theia deposit on August 6.
This is the first of three phases of drilling totalling 14,000 metres, designed to upgrade the Inferred mineral resources within the stage 1 and stage 2 Theia open pit designs, as envisaged in the September 2023 scoping study.
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