Antipa Minerals (ASX:AZY) has re-commenced Phase 2 drilling at the Citadel project in Western Australia, to test the resource potential of its recently discovered Calibre gold-copper-silver-tungsten deposit.
The first target under the latest Phase 2 program is to the yet to be tested Conductor 4 downhole EM conductivity anomaly, which is 3 to 4 times more conductive than previously identified EM targets.
The company believes this could be potentially due to an increase in sulphides and grade.
The drilling will also attempt to locate the western edge of the Calibre mineralisation.
An extension to the drill coverage at Calibre to a strike extent of 400 metres is also planned and the drilling will also test the potential for further increases in grade of the shallow mineralisation seen on the northern side of the prospect.
The Phase 2 drilling is likely to continue for about 6-8 weeks and involve a total of 2,500 metres of diamond drilling.
Antipa's Citadel project covers 1,714 square kilometres of prospective tenements and is located about 100 kilometres north of Newcrest Mining's Telfer gold-copper mine.
The project also includes the gold and copper Magnum deposit, where a maiden resource of 415,000 ounce gold, 641,000 ounce silver and 77,000 tonnes of copper was defined last year.
It has also made priority application for an additional 1,330 square kilometres of exploration licences called the North Telfer project, the granting of which would bring its tenements just 20 kilometres of Newcrest's Telfer project.
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