Star Minerals Ltd (ASX:SMS) has set the diamond drill bit spinning at the Tumblegum South Gold Project in Western Australia, beginning the third stage of resource definition drilling for the project.
The company plans to execute a small 300-metre drilling program to define and expand the current gold resource on the tenure and will leverage accompanying logging and assays to support a geological model and mineral resource update.
This latest program follows two earlier drilling efforts, which produced gold assays up to:
- 14 metres at 2.49 g/t gold;
- 4 metres at 15.07 g/t;
- 6 metres at 3.07 g/t;
- 4 metres at 16.8 g/t;
- 3 metres at 14.74 g/t; and
- 4 metres at 8.23 g/t.
The existing resource at Tumblegum currently sits at 600,000 tonnes at 2.2 g/t gold.
Drilling demonstrates confidence in project
“We are excited to be back on site at Tumblegum South and looking forward to following up the great results we saw from the last round of drilling, building on the success of our RC drilling campaigns,” Star Minerals CEO Greg Almond said.
“This will encourage our shareholders, as it demonstrates our further confidence in the asset we have at Tumblegum South and the potential to increase our knowledge of the deposit as we follow up from the results of the previous stages of drilling and modelling.”
The Tumblegum South Project sits some 40 kilometres south of Meekatharra.
The existing mining lease, ML51/888, is directly along strike from the Tumblegum Pit, which was mined by Dominion during the 1987–1992 Gabanintha Gold Mine Joint Venture.
SMS’s current focus is on gold, but the company believes there is ‘significant’ copper potential on the lease.