Empire Metals Ltd (AIM:EEE) said the latest phase of drilling at the Eclipse gold project in Western Australia delivered encouraging results and confirmed the existence of several parallel veins in addition to the main Eclipse vein.
"The results from the most recent drilling campaign at Eclipse are most encouraging, confirming the presence of additional mineralised zones,” said managing director Shaun Bunn. “A new lode, referred to as the Twin Shafts, has also been identified.
“The lodes at Eclipse and Twin Shafts are sub-parallel veins spanning a lateral distance of 120m. The mineralisation at Jack's Dream has now been intercepted at depth, 126m downhole, and continues to remain open at depth and to the south-east, towards the Eclipse orebody.
“The exploration work to date continues to bear fruit and the footprint of mineralisation at Eclipse is starting to gain scale,” he said.
Significant drilling intercepts include 5 metres at 3.54 grammes a tonne (g/t) gold from 126 metres at Jack's Dream; 6 metres at 2.39 g/t gold from Jack's Dream and 4 metres at 4.78 g/t gold at Twin Shaft.
Empire Metals has a 75% interest in the high-grade Eclipse project and an option to acquire the remaining 25%.