Strickland Metals has two RC drill rigs and one diamond core rig fired up at its Yandal project in WA. Both are expected to be on site for the duration of 2022 in a big push to add to the 603,000 ounce resource. The company believes there is significant potential to rapidly add to the existing gold resources at the project as it looks to emulate its neighbour, Northern Star’s Jundee operations.
Drilling will initially focus on adding more ounces to the 346,000 ounce Millrose deposit. A significant 23,000m of RC drilling and 8,000m of diamond drilling is planned to attack a number of extensional targets.
At Millrose, the gap between the southern and northern resource pods will be hit with RC drilling as Strickland searches for both supergene and primary gold.
Strike extensions on both the north and south sides have been highlighted by geophysical and geochemical data and will come under greater scrutiny.
The company also has a focus on high-grade zones likely to support underground mining and has planned a number of depth extensions to existing holes.
Extensive near-surface laterite gold mineralisation will be targeted to define further resources and drilling will also aim for possible parallel trends to the west of the main defined shear zone.
RC drilling will also examine the alteration zone at the 108,000 ounce Dusk til Dawn deposit and at the Big Daddy prospect.
Strickland Metals CEO, Andrew Bray said: “It’s going to be a very exciting year for Strickland given the large number of metres we’ll drill over very promising targets.”
Strickland is planning a large aircore drilling programme commencing around the middle of 2022 to develop further targets at Yandal.
The drilling programme will feed into a planned mineral resource upgrade the company says is likely to comprise a significant addition to the current resource. After the resource upgrade, Strickland plans to consider the commencement of a scoping study for the development of the resource.
The Millrose gold deposit is on a major shear zone that extends another 30 kilometres south, giving Strickland bucket loads of blue-sky potential. With 603,000 ounces of gold resources already in the bag and three rigs drilling hot targets across the tenure, Strickland could be in for an interesting 2022.
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