Bellevue Gold Ltd (ASX:BGL) has received further drill results from its recently discovered Deacon and Mavis gold lodes within its Bellevue Gold Project in Western Australia.
The Deacon and Mavis lodes are a large-scale high-grade gold discovery located in the untested footwall of the historical Bellevue mine.
Broad spaced step-out drilling has confirmed further high-grade gold mineralisation at the Deacon discovery with 3.8 metres at 13.9 g/t gold intersected.
Notably, results are pending on an even further 350-metre step-out hole that has intercepted visible gold mineralisation.
Currently, there are six diamond drill rigs targeting discovery step-out holes at the Deacon and Mavis Lodes as well as infilling the Tribune, Viago and Bellevue Surrounds Lodes.
A game-changing discovery for Bellevue
Bellevue managing director Steve Parsons said: “The footprint of the Deacon and Mavis discovery continues to expand as exploration progresses with further high-grade drill intersections and significant new untested DHEM conductors defined.
“This discovery is yet another ‘game changer’ at the project, given the significant scale and new entirely untested geological sequence to the east which has opened up exploration in the third dimension.
“The Bellevue mineralisation system is resembling the beginnings of other significant large scale and long-life operating mines in the Goldfields region of Western Australia due to its large mineralised footprint and multiple lodes.
Exploration strategy delivering results
“The DHEM testing has truly been revolutionary for exploration at the project, allowing the rapid ranking of and targeting of prospective structures.
“Our exploration strategy utilising broadly spaced step-out holes followed by the use of DHEM to define the mineralisation panels within the shear network works consistently well for us.
“So far at Deacon over 1.7 kilometres of strike has been defined and numerous large scale untested DHEM conductors remain to be drill tested suggesting significant potential to add further high-grade mineralisation to the resource inventory.”
The Deacon and Mavis footprint makes it significant
The historical Bellevue Mine covers an area of 1,700x420 metres and produced around 700,000 ounces of gold from underground mining from 1986 to 1997.
The total area defined at the Deacon/Mavis target is currently 1,700x260 metres and it is open in every direction with drilling underway to test the northern and depth potential.
Given the size of this mineralised footprint at Deacon and Mavis, the discovery is considered significant and has the potential to host a material amount of gold.