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Buru Energy and Sipa Resources are continuing their foray into base metals, kicking off diamond drilling at the joint venture's Barbwire Terrace project south-east of Broome in Western Australia. The 50/50 split operation plans to sink up to four holes at nominal depths of up to 500m as they look to test targets along the south-western margin of the Fitzroy Trough.

Handheld XRF readings from Buru Energy and JV partner Sipa Resources’ first diamond drill hole at the duo’s Barbwire Terrace project has turned up sniffs of lead-zinc near Broome in WA. The partnership deemed the program’s first diamond hole a “technical success” after it intersected a geological package consistent with significant lead-zinc deposits in the area.

Diamond drilling at Buru Energy and Sipa Resources' jointly held Barbwire Terrace project south-east of Broome in WA has turned up a smorgasbord of high-grade base metal mineralisation. The joint venture says portable XRF readings on samples from one of the two recently plunged holes delivered grades as high as 19.8 per cent lead plus zinc from 413.5 metres.

On the spot x-ray fluorescence analysis on a third drill core pulled from Buru Energy and Sipa Resources' jointly held Barbwire Terrace project south-east of Broome in WA has unveiled broad intervals of disseminated base metal sulphides. The high-grade mineralisation ran up to 23.9 per cent zinc- lead and was joined by a suite of anomalous hits running north of one per cent.