Surefire Resources is eyeing a rapid return to RC drilling at its promising Yidby Road gold prospect in WA with a drill rig locked in to start exploration later this month.
A total of 2500m of drilling is currently planned to follow up on its recent discoveries at Marshall and Fender. Drilling will also check additional untested gold anomalies discovered using mobile metal ion-MMI-analysis which is an advanced geochemical technique proven successful in finding undercover mineral deposits. The drilling campaign will step out to the north and the south on both the Marshall and Fender gold mineralised structures.
Important features of the gold discoveries at Yidby are the wide downhole mineralisation widths, the high-grade gold intersections and first-rate metallurgy characteristics.
Drilling at Yidby has previously delineated a wealth of shallow gold intercepts associated with an intrusive porphyry unit. Intersections from the discovery hole at the Marshall project last year hit 60m at 1.04 grams per tonne gold from 32m, which included 4m at a spectacular 10.4 g/t gold from 72m.
Surefire has also initiated column leach test work following the previous excellent metallurgy sighter test work at the Yidby Road Gold Project. ALS Perth has been contracted to complete column leach test work which will be completed on diamond drill cores recovered from the last year’s diamond drilling.
Surefire’s Yidby Road project is located on the Great Northern Highway, 40km southwest of Paynes Find, a former gold rush settlement with a rich pioneering and prospecting history and approximately five hours drive north of Perth in the Murchison Mineral Province of Western Australia. The project lies only 1km from the Great Northern Highway and comprises three granted exploration licences with a total area of 114 sq.km and includes the three recent Surefire gold discoveries Yidby, Fender and Marshall.
Gold mineralisation at the project is orogenic style and hosted within quartz veins with minor sulphides which cut ultramafic/mafic lithologies and felsic porphyry intrusions. The project area hosts copious artisanal mine workings with associated anomalous surface geochemistry, adding further weight to the target’s prospectivity as the company looks to recommence drilling in the coming weeks.
Yidby shares the Yalgoo-Singleton greenstone belt terrain with a plethora of operating and dormant mines including the 29 Metals’ world-class Golden Grove copper-zinc mine located 60km to the north-west and Capricorn Metals’ 2.75-million-ounce Mount Gibson Gold Project 30km to the south. Yidby appears to sit on the same structure that hosts the Mt Gibson gold mine with a similar style of geology and mineralisation to the previously mined ore bodies. Also hanging out in the neighbourhood are the million-ounce plus Minjar gold project approximately 65km to the northwest, the resting 1million-ounce Kirkalocka gold project approximately 70km to the northeast and Silver Lake Resources' half-a- million-ounce Rothsay Gold Project 30km to the west.
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By Matt Birney
