Meeka Metals Ltd (ASX:MEK) has confirmed the high-grade nature of gold mineralisation at St Anne’s prospect of the Murchison Gold Project in Western Australia, striking up to 2 metres at 8.2 g/t in diamond drilling.
Assays of note from this round of confirmation drilling include:
- 7.8 metres at 2.69 g/t gold from 50.2 metres including 2.0 metres at 8.20 g/t;
- 20.7 metres at 3.29 g/t from 54.3 metres including 12.8 metres at 5.21 g/t; and
- 19.3 metres at 1.27 g/t from 39.7 metres including 2.5 metres at 7.04 g/t.
Meeka Metals notes that these results are hampered by up to 4 metres of core loss within the mineralised intervals, where oxidised material was washed out of the core sample during the drilling process.
Results contribute to PFS
“This drilling, completed to support the St Anne’s mineral resource, comminution test work and geotechnical evaluation for open pit design, has confirmed the high-grade nature of the mineralisation,” Meeka Metals managing director Tim Davidson said.
“These high grades were evident even after accounting for between 0.7 metres and 4.0 metres of core loss, which is assigned zero gold grade when calculating the broader mineralised intercept.
“Additionally, the high gold recoveries, rapid leach kinetics and low cyanide consumption, reported in December 2022 point to St Anne’s making a meaningful contribution to the pre-feasibility study (PFS) due in mid-2023.
“The initial St Anne’s mineral resource remains on track for the March 2023 quarter, allowing the impact of this additional mineral resource on our other mining centres and mill sizing to be optimised.”
Meeka will also soon begin drilling along strike from St Anne’s at the 25-kilometre-long Fairway shear zone, investigating coincident gold-arsenic anomalies in the coming weeks.