Anthony McClure

A second drill rig has rolled onto Strickland Metals’ Yandal project in WA’s Eastern Goldfields region to target high-grade gold intercepts from last year’s reconnaissance drilling program that pulled up 39m averaging 6.1g/t, including a 7m core running at 22.2g/t of the precious yellow metal. It is back to business for Strickland after it yesterday confirmed the acquisition of a giant Serbian gold project.

Strickland Metals says it has delivered samples from its first three diamond drillholes in Western Australia’s Yandal gold belt to the laboratory for assay, while reverse-circulation and diamond drilling is continuing. The company says it expects assay results to be returned in June. All three holes were drilled at Palomino, with two being put into the existing mineral resource for structural information.

Strickland Metals has delivered “outstanding” initial results from the first two diamond drill holes sunk at its Palomino prospect near Wiluna in WA, with a solid 17m hit grading 10.6g/t tonne gold from 144.7m. The impressive intercept contains a 3.5m section going 15g/t gold from 150.1m, while the second hole returned 13.7m at 6.3g/t from 133.4m including 3m reading an eye-catching 20g/t from 133.9m.

Strickland Metals’ Palomino prospect has produced more strong results, with a top new hit of 10.6m at 7.5g/t gold from 161.4m including 3m going 21.2g/t at the project within WA’s Yandal gold belt. Reinforcing other recent gold runs, the company’s latest RC drilling also threw out 9m going 2.4g/t gold from 22m and a deeper 21m intercept in the same hole at 1g/t from 76m.

Strickland Metals has launched into a new exploration campaign at its 5.44 million-ounce gold equivalent Rogozna project in Serbia, with two rigs kicking off a planned 60,000m of drilling and another two on the way. The infill, extensional and scout probing strategy devised by the company will be the biggest program ever committed to the project.

Strickland Metals is convinced it has one hand wrapped around the tail of a “significant-scale” mineralised system at its Rogozna gold and base metals project in Serbia after step-out drilling spat out a new suite of solid results. The company plans to quickly follow up the positive assays from its Medenovac prospect, with a 10,000m diamond drill campaign set to kick off this week.

Strickland Metals has gone back to its Horse Well gold camp in the Western Australian desert and returned with another string of impressive hits including 20.3m at 1.9 grams per tonne gold from 103.6m with 7m going 4.7g/t in a diamond hole.