St George Mining (ASX:SGQ) has wasted no time in exploring the recently acquired Hawaii Project, which is located in the Agnew-Wiluna belt of Western Australia.
A total of 770 metres of reverse circulation drilling is planned, including the first ever drilling to test the bedrock geology at the project.
Four drill holes are planned to test four separate targets on two prominent magnetic trends.
St George acquired the project from BHP Billiton Nickel West Pty Ltd.
John Prineas, executive chairman, commented:
“The initial shallow drilling by Nickel West identified the presence of prospective ultramafics and we now have an opportunity to effectively test the bedrock with our deeper reverse circulation drilling.
“This is a milestone drilling program that has the potential to deliver a significant exploration breakthrough.
”With high impact nickel sulphide drilling also underway at our East Laverton Project, we have several outstanding opportunities for drilling success over the next few weeks.”
Details of Hawaii
Three of the targets to be tested at Hawaii are located on the 5.5 kilometre long ultramafic trend which was first identified by reconnaissance aircore drilling completed by Nickel West.
This aircore drilling intersected thick weathered komatiite ultramafics, including drill hole HWAC12 which intersected 45 metres of ultramafic to end of hole and HWAC6 which intersected 48 metres of ultramafic to end of hole.
Both aircore holes intersected elevated nickel and cobalt values in regolith (up to 1.29% nickel and 0.1% cobalt in HWAC12) which is indicative of weathered moderate to high MgO ultramafics.
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