Saturn Metals Ltd (ASX:STN) has begun a second phase of reverse circulation (RC) drilling at its Apollo Hill Gold Project, near Leonora in Western Australia.
The company has mobilised two drill rigs to site to accelerate completion of the program, which will comprise around 4,000 metres in 35 holes.
Results to support new resource estimation
Drilling will focus along a 250-metre southern extension corridor to the 1.1-kilometre long resource zone, but will also look to extend mineralisation to the north where drilling remains open.
It will also follow-up on recent high-grade shoot intersections, including one assay of 20 metres at 2.5 g/t gold from 52 metres.
Saturn Metals managing director Ian Bamborough said the program was in keeping with Saturn’s objective of growing the Apollo Hill gold system.
He said: “We look forward to reporting results in due course and to including them in our new resource estimation.”
The drilling program is expected to be complete in 2-3 weeks.
READ: Saturn Metals intercepts visible gold in first diamond hole at Apollo Hill
Saturn Metals recently saw multiple visible gold intercepts in the first diamond tail completed at the project.
The visible gold was supported by 3D X-ray scans which showed the presence of additional interpreted gold grains.
The current Apollo Hill inferred resource is 17.2 million tonnes at 0.9 g/t gold, containing 500,000 ounces.
Apollo Hill is around 60 kilometres southeast of Leonora in Western Australia’s goldfields region.
The project is surrounded by excellent infrastructure and several significant gold deposits and operations.