Gold explorer BMG Resources has wrapped up a diamond and aircore drilling blitz at its high-grade Abercromby gold project in the north-eastern Goldfields of WA.
The drilling program at the Capital prospect used a brace of reverse circulation, or “RC” and diamond drilling to sink roughly 6,700 metres with the aim of testing the high-grade mineralised trend along strike and at depth.
Diamond drilling was used to extend five RC drill holes from last years program that didn’t reach the target due to adverse ground conditions, with an additional five diamond holes plumbing the deeper depths of known gold mineralisation.
Previous exploration by the company at Capital has coughed up a slew of wide intercepts including 26m returning 6.07 grams per tonne gold from 192m with an internal 7m coming in at a glittering 21.22 g/t of the precious yellow metal.
Whilst BMG plays a game of “hurry up then wait” with the samples from the diamond drilling program prepped and sent off to the labs, the company says the diamond core displayed all the hallmark signs of having intersected gold lodes.
Interestingly, the company says intense bleaching, silica flooding and disseminated sulphides have been noted at the predicted positions of extensions of the known high-grade gold lodes.
The West Australian-focused gold explorer has also pulled the rods up on a 10,300m aircore drilling program designed to test a series of structural gold targets between Capital and the previously identified Barrack and Archer prospects. The work was completed whilst probing several grass roots targets generated by the recently completed sub-audio magnetics ground geophysical survey.
Assay results from the program are anticipated to be returned later this month.
BMG Resources' Managing Director, Bruce McCracken said:“The completion of this ~6,700m RC/DD campaign is a significant milestone for BMG and whilst we, like many of our peers, will have to patiently await the full results of this program alongside the AC program, the foundations are already being laid out for our next exploration activities at Abercromby.”
BMG’s wholly owned Abercromby project sits on the distinguished Wiluna greenstone belt, where over 40 million ounces of gold have been outlined to-date.
The company recently scooped up a stack of wide gold hits from an RC drilling campaign headlined by a series of glittering results including 6m at 19.8 g/t gold from 83m with a 1m section tipping the scales at 100.39 g/t gold at the same depth.
With the price of gold reaching ten-month highs on the back of global unrest and a swag of samples at the labs eagerly awaiting assaying, things could get interesting for BMG as it considers the next move at its developing Abercromby project.
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