Rumble Resources Ltd (ASX:RTR, OTC:RTRFF) has kicked off reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling to test several high-grade gold targets and follow-up historical high-grade intersections at the Western Queen South and Duke prospects of the Western Queen Gold Project in Western Australia.
The Western Australian project previously returned very high-grade results of up to 4 metres at 49.73 g/t gold from 134 metres and 17 metres at 5.7 g/t gold from 221 metres at Western Queen South, and 8 metres at 26.27 g/t gold from 14 metres as well as 7 metres at 60.60 g/t gold from 70 metres at Duke.
Historical production consisted of 880,000 tonnes at 7.6 g/t gold for 215,000 ounces, and the project retains a mineral resource estimate (MRE) of 2.1 million tonnes at 2.42 g/t gold for 163,200 ounces of contained gold.
Strong track record
“As we continue with the metallurgical test work on our Earaheedy zinc, lead, silver project we are delighted to be drilling the Western Queen Gold Project,” Rumble Resources managing director and CEO Peter Harold said.
“The historical gold intersections at Western Queen are some of the highest grade gold intersections found in Western Australia today, and they warrant follow-up.
“The system at Western Queen has already produced high-grade gold with historical gold production of 190,000 ounces from ore with an average grade of 8.9 grams per tonne from the Western Queen Central Pit.
“This past production shows that the system is capable of hosting further significant high-grade orebodies.”
The historical mine project area is about 2.7 kilometres in strike length, sitting on granted mining leases within 100 kilometres of three gold processing plants.
Rumble’s licences cover the north-south trending Warda Warra greenstone belt which is 35 kilometres long and 3 kilometres wide, host to the Western Queen Shear Zone which remains largely underexplored.
The project’s deposits are associated with a major orogenic shear zone similar to Spartan Resources’ Never Never Lode (MRE of 952,900 ounces of gold) adjacent to the Gibley’s open cut, which historically produced 229,000 ounces of gold.