Alien Metals Ltd (LON:UFO) said it has identified maiden exploration targets at the Brockman and Hancock Ranges sites at its Hamersley Iron Ore project[ in Australia.
Over 600 public reports were reviewed covering both projects, said Alien, and five priority prospects selected for next stage exploration.
At Brockman,Alien said the three targets chosen focus on the historic high-grade BHP prospects numbers 15, 19 and 20, where detailed grid-based surface mapping and sampling is planned to support a maiden drilling programme.
The two key targets in the Hancock Ranges Project are the Sirius Extension prospect, that has previously been drilled by Volta Mining, and the Kalgan Prospect in the north-north-west of the project.
Alien Metals gave an exploration target of between 245mln tonnes (high case) and 74mln tonnes (low case) for three of the targets.
Drilling data was insufficient for a target from BHP 20 and BHP 19, Alien said.
Bill Brodie Good, Alien’s technical director, said he was extremely pleased with the review results.
“The field work undertaken last year replicated the high-grade DSO results previously recorded at the projects; our next objectives are to carry-out further exploration work, including a maiden drilling programme, to convert the exploration targets into JORC resources.”