White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN) has finalised a drilling contract with mining contractor Geostandart LLC for drilling at the Quartz Zone within the Aucu Gold Project, Kyrgyz Republic.
Drilling is expected to commence as soon as all the access tracks and drill pads are completed.
Once the access tracks are completed geologists will map and sample the outcropping mineralised zones.
Assays from these zones will be available in circa four weeks.
Once company geologists have determined the location and strike extent of the Quartz Zone the drill hole positions can be finalised.
The Quartz Zone appears to extend at least 200 metres further south-east of the existing drilling.
Outcropping mineralised shear zones occur in a track cutting 50 metres south-east of the existing drilling with channel sample assay results of 2 metres at 5.4 g/t gold and 1 metre at 0.7 g/t gold within sandstone.
Quartz veins outcrop a further 100 metres south-east of the channel samples.
Phase one drilling at the Quartz Zone consists of 15 holes for 1,200 metres of reverse circulation drilling.
The drilling is targeting the Quartz Zone structure along strike from the existing drilling which defined an inferred resource of 244,000 tonnes at 9.5 g/t gold for 75,000 ounces.
Once the strike extent of the Quartz Zone has been defined the company will drill a series of deeper holes to test the mineralisation at depth.