Great Southern Mining Ltd (ASX:GSN) has started reverse circulation drilling at the Cox’s Find Gold deposit near Laverton, Western Australia, targeting extensions at depth in the southern search space.
The company also aims to discover possible repeats of Cox’s Find further to the south, where the same lithology, faults and folds are evident.
First assays in February 2021
Chief executive officer Sean Gregory said: “We are excited to be back drilling on our Laverton gold projects.
“This follows our comprehensive target generation process, which has refined targets at depth and along strike at both Cox’s Find and Mon Ami.
“We expect to receive first assay results from this significant and ongoing Laverton region drilling program in February next year.”
The drilling program will continue over the next few months with an initial 5,400 metres committed at both Cox’s Find and Mon Ami.
Deposit extensions
Recent drill results at Cox’s Find not only included several ‘spectacular’ high-grade intersections of up to 5 metres at 80 g/t gold from 160 metres including 1-metre at 404 g/t gold but also a highly significant 15 metres at 1.01 g/t gold intersection from 167 metres in hole 20CFRC034.
This intersection opens up an entirely new search space immediately to the south of the high-grade unmined panel delineated by recent spectacular high-grade drill intersections.
GSN believes that the Cox’s Find ore body may be reoriented from its generally south-easterly plunge towards the southern search space due to wrenching associated with south trending shear zones.
The program will include an initial six 190-metre deep RC holes to test this southern search space.