SensOre Ltd (ASX:S3N) has wound up a drilling program at Eaglehawk gold target within the Tea Well joint venture (JV) project near Meekatharra in Western Australia.
The project is part of the Yilgarn Exploration Ventures Pty Ltd (YEV) joint venture of SensOre (60%) and DGO Gold Limited (40%), where YEV is earning an 85% interest in Tea Well JV tenements held by a private prospector.
Eaglehawk is along strike from Great Boulder Resources Ltd (ASX:GBR)’s Mulga Bill and Loaded Dog prospects, which form part of the Side Well Project, 650 kilometres northeast of Perth and 7 kilometres southeast of the 6.9-million-ounce Meekatharra gold operations in the Murchison region of Western Australia.
Aircore program followed survey
SensOre’s recently completed aircore program consisted of 74 holes for a total of 6,480 metres and followed a gravity survey data-sharing exercise between SensOre and Great Boulder in 2021.
Drilling was designed to test for gold mineralisation below cover over the large gravity low and weak gravity high identified during the data sharing exercise.
Assay results from the aircore program are expected early in the third quarter of this year.
Geology similar to Mulga Bill
SensOre CEO Richard Taylor said: “The sequence encountered in the drilling is similar to the reported geology from Mulga Bill and Loaded Dog prospects to the north.
Additionally, we are encouraged that a deeper weathering profile encountered in the drilling, which includes a deeper leached upper portion, supports the interpretation that historical shallow drilling has not effectively tested the sequence.”
Historical shallow RAB/aircore drilling undertaken in 2018 (prior to YEV’s farm-in) near the southwestern part of the Eaglehawk target recorded anomalous gold values.
Tea Well activities
Previous SensOre Group exploration on the greater Tea Well project has consisted of:
- Aircore, reverse circulation and diamond drilling conducted earlier in the year, west of the Eaglehawk target;
- Infill gravity geophysics (400-metre by 200-metre spacing);
- Bottom-of-hole multi-element geochemistry; and
- Soil sampling campaigns.
Geologically complex region
Eaglehawk is in a geologically complex region on the eastern limb of the Polelle Syncline and is associated with a subtle gravity low and disruption of the magnetic signature.
While the eastern Polelle area does not currently contain any significant resources, recent exploration success by Bryah Resources Ltd (ASX:BYH) at Gabanintha and Great Boulder at the Mulga Bill and Loaded Dog prospects in its Side Well Project together with emerging surface geochemistry work by Castle Minerals Ltd (ASX:CDT) all serve to highlight the area’s emerging potential.