Northern Star Resources (ASX: NST) continues to discover bonanza grade gold at the Paulsens Gold Mine in Western Australia, which the intriguing outcome the possibility of an extended mine life.
New results from the Voyager 1 lode include hits of up to 2330 grams per tonne (g/t) gold, and across at the Voyager 2 lode discoveries include 0.4 metres at 1075g/t gold.
The company said that these results, along with previous hits such as 0.8 metres at
12,178g/t gold and 1 metre at 3390g/t gold appear to be in a separate, extremely high-grade domain inside Voyager 2 structure.
Importantly for the business case of an extended mine life, the latest results from Voyager 1 and all results from Voyager 2 are excluded from recently announced
resource upgrade of 318,000 gold ounces.
Highlights from Voyager 1 include:
- 2.3 metres at 1115.4g/t gold from 574 metres, including 1.1 metre at 2330g/t gold; and
- 19.0 metres at 75.8g/t gold from 624 metres, including 4.0 metres at 251.7g/t gold.
Highlights from Voyager 2 include:
- 0.4 metres at 1075g/t gold from 434 metres;
- 4.0 metres at 49.7g/t gold from 410 metres; and
- 8.0 metres at 31.5g/t gold from 438 metres.
Further assays from both lodes are pending.