Surefire Resources NL (ASX:SRN) has identified large zones of potential mineralised quartz and sulphides at Yidby Road Gold Deposit within the 100%-owned Yidby Gold Project.
It had completed 22 holes for 2,298 metres with a number of mobile metal ions (MMI) soil sampling anomalies tested.
Geological logging has to date identified 18 metres of quartz-sulphide alteration from 212 metres within one of the three reverse circulation (RC) holes drilled at the deposit.
Also, at its Money MMI at Southern Yidby, anomalous zones of gold and copper have been identified.
Yidby Gold Project
In October, Surefire completed two separate phases of drilling of a total of 22 RC holes – Phase 1 to identify potential gold mineralisation from the extensive MMI soil sampling anomalies immediately to the west of the Yidby Road Gold Deposit and Phase 2 utilising an Explorac HC220 rig to drill a number of deep holes below that deposit.
MMI geochemistry anomalies adjacent to the west of the Yidby Road deposit identified a series of sub-parallel gold trends outside of the current defined Yidby gold area.
The drilling of several of the anomalies has identified zones of quartz-carbonate-sulphide alteration within the oxidised to fresh regolith.
Samples have been submitted for analysis, and the turnaround time is up to eight weeks due to current demand.
Money MMI soil geochemistry
Large soil anomalies, which were identified at Yidby following soil geochemistry conducted in August 2021, have recently undergone a more thorough interpretation to identify anomalous trends.
Of significance are the gold and copper trends that coincide with each other and a large banded-iron ridge with parallel quartz veining to the west.
The mineralisation is not considered to be associated with the Yidby Road Gold Deposit system of the trending northwest to the southeast ultramafics which pass across the northern contact of the Money MMI anomaly.
The newly-defined Money anomaly is a large northwest trending 1,000 by 250 metres area of MMI gold in soil anomalism.
A series of parallel structures are interpreted with the copper and gold, although this could be associated with a wide or flat dipping structure.
Flora and fauna
The company also completed with the Money MMI geochem anomaly, a flora and fauna study.