Meeka Metals Ltd (ASX:MEK) has intersected more zones of shallow, high-grade gold in drilling at St Anne’s, a prospect of the wholly-owned Murchison Gold Project in Western Australia.
Assays are still pending for 28 more holes for 3,062 metres of drilling, but results of note from this shallow drilling include:
- 24 metres at 4.73 g/t gold from 52 metres, including 8 metres at 11.78 g/t;
- 36 metres at 3.61 g/t from 44 metres, including 8 metres at 11.07 g/t;
- 8 metres at 3.05 g/t from 104 metres, including 4 metres at 4.09 g/t;
- 20 metres at 1.66 g/t from 36 metres, including 12 metres at 2.36 g/t; and
- 16 metres at 1.43 g/t from 92 metres, including 4 metres at 2.06 g/t and 4 metres at 2.42 g/t.
This drilling program was also intended to extend the strike at St Anne’s, building on results released in January and August this year with assays including:
- 32 metres at 16.07 g/t gold from 48 metres including 16 metres at 28.59 g/t gold;
- 20 metres at 20.74 g/t from 48 metres including 16 metres at 24.86 g/t;
- 32 metres at 2.20 g/t from 48 metres including 20 metres at 3.31 g/t;
- 32 metres at 2.03 g/t from 44 metres including 16 metres at 3.59 g/t;
- 28 metres at 1.47 g/t from 28 metres including 8 metres at 3.46 g/t;
- 24 metres at 4.81 g/t from 68 metres including 4 metres at 20.30 g/t; and
- 36 metres at 1.02 g/t from 24 metres including 8 metres at 2.35 g/t.
Drilling continues to expand footprint
“The ongoing shallow drilling at St Anne’s continues to expand the footprint of high-grade oxide mineralisation within this large gold system,” Meeka Metals managing director Tim Davidson said.
“The drilling is also affording the team an improved understanding of controls on mineralisation at St Anne’s and highlighting excellent drill targets to the north of St Anne’s where historical drilling has intersected mineralisation, however, no follow-up work has ever been completed.
“RC [reverse circulation] drilling, targeting primary mineralisation in the fresh rock has also commenced at St Anne’s and diamond drilling will commence in early October 2022.
“Importantly, diamond drilling will provide information necessary for the initial St Anne’s mineral resource, targeted for release in the December 2022 quarter.”
Meeka is still completing its program of shallow strike extensional drilling into the oxide gold zone at St Anne’s, exploring the potential for an even greater increase in the mineralised footprint of the gold system hosted there.