Greatland Gold PLC (LON:GGP) has applied for four additional exploration licences covering 800 sq km at its Ernest Giles prospect in Western Australia.
Three of the additional licences, representing an area of 600 sq km to the east of the Ernest Giles project, cover a large north-south trending sequence of prospective rocks (Ernest Giles East).
The fourth licence is contiguous to the existing Ernest Giles tenement area and lies immediately to the north of the Empress target where Mobile Metal Ion (MMI) surface geochemistry detected a 3km long by 1km wide gold in soil anomaly with values peaking at 338ppb gold;
Gervaise Heddle, chief executive, said the company was especially excited about the potential of Ernest Giles East, which represents a continuation of the Ernest Giles greenstone belt.
The new licences take Greatland’s acreage at Ernest Giles to around 1,800 sq km.
There has been very little exploration work on the new areas said Callum Baxter, the explorer’s chief technical officer, but its prior work elsehwre has shown the region is capable of hosting very large mineralised systems.