Meeka Metals’ Turnberry prospect has given up more high-grade gold with a raft of assay results from seven diamond drill holes including 1 metre at 28.23 grams per tonne gold, including 0.09m running at a staggering 190.85g/t.
That same drill hole also revealed nuggety visible gold within chlorite-pyrite altered dolerite.
Other headline figures from Turnberry assays are 18m going 4.41g/t from 252m, including 10m at an impressive 7.26g/t, 23m at 2.52g/t from 282m, containing 10m at 4.31g/t and 19m at 2.62g/t including 3m at 5.46g/t.
The company says the most recent drilling returned both high-grades and broad mineralised zones.
Turnberry is part of Meeka’s Murchison gold project, north-east of Meekatharra, with its mineral resource of 1.1 million ounces. A mineral resource update for Turnberry is set for the fourth quarter of this year.
About 3.5km from Turnberry is the promising St Anne’s prospect that Meeka says displays similarities to Turnberry in its width, host geology and style of mineralisation.
Drilling at St Anne’s has already returned figures like 32m at 16.07g/t gold from 48m including 16m at 28.59g/t gold.
Meeka will be eagerly awaiting the results of almost 8000m of St Anne’s drill samples from shallow holes immediately along strike either in the laboratory being processed, or enroute to the laboratory.
Shallow strike extensional drilling is ongoing into the oxide zones at St Anne’s and diamond drilling is scheduled to start early in October.
Meeka management says the latest Turnberry assay results and visible gold confirm the high-grade nature of its western lode, located 20m-50m to the west of the main lode. Previous results have included 2m at 37.08g/t gold from 366m including 1m at 62.80g/t gold.
Importantly, the high-grade western lode was confirmed to extend 150m to the south of previous intersections where visible gold was also logged in drill holes, it adds.
Meeka Metals Managing Director Tim Davidson, said: “We are now seeing the depth potential of this highly fertile 7km shear system that hosts both Turnberry and St Anne’s."
“With these results from Turnberry in hand, our focus is now on drilling out St Anne’s."
“This will provide additional capacity to target primary mineralisation in the fresh rock while also gathering important structural information about the St Anne’s mineralisation.”
The latest results come from drilling that targeted a zone 250m-350m below surface and below the base of Meeka’s scoping study open pit shell study of last year.
Meeka sees the western lode as a potential underground mine below a planned open pit.
A scoping study last year outlined plans for a mine with an eight-year lifespan, with mine production of 4.9 million tonnes at 2.8g/t for 443,000 ounces.
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