Westar Resources Ltd (ASX:WSR) is poised to begin maiden aircore drilling of several gold and copper-zinc targets at the Gidgee North Project in Western Australia, leveraging the company’s extensive data sets to generate and refine them.
WSR will investigate several gold targets over the Gum Creek Greenstone Belt (GCGB), which were refined with re-processed airborne magnetic and gravity geophysical data, and historical copper results at the Vela and Geo prospects, which returned grades up to 8 metres at 1.12% copper from 48 metres to the end of hole.
The company has already secured all necessary approvals and has secured a drilling contractor to begin this month.
“Rare opportunity”
“Given the historical production plus the current mineral resource inventory in the GCGB, this is a rare opportunity to drill test an extensive strike of prospective greenstone terrain that has never seen a drill hole,” Westar Resources managing director Karl Jupp said.
“We know the lithologies are right, the structures are permissive and the targets have been systematically worked up using best-practice geoscience and an extensive knowledge of the GCGB minerals systems architecture.”
WSR expects to finish its drilling campaign by early in the second quarter of this year, after which the company will plan follow-up drilling with an analysis of aircore and soil sample results.
The company also intends to compile and analyse historical exploration and mining data from the Hilda prospect at the Fairy Well tenement, which it will use to map the area and plan for a maiden reverse circulation (RC) drilling program.