Auric Mining Ltd (ASX:AWJ) has this week completed an aircore drilling program at the Chalice West Project near Higginsville-Widgiemooltha in Western Australia.
A total of 227 aircore holes have been drilled for 7,200 metres with this work winding up on Tuesday.
All samples from the program were submitted as 4-metre composites for gold analyses and the bottom-of-hole composites for a suite of 48 additional elements.
pXRF testing
Managing director Mark English said on-site pXRF testing was completed for nickel and other elements, including proxies for lithium and rare earths.
He said the pXRF was used as an objective basis for selective sampling and associated multi-element laboratory analysis.
Samples submitted
As of this morning, 1,870 composite samples together with 378 selected single-metre samples had been delivered to Intertek Genalysis for analysis.
Auric expects that initial results will be announced in mid-December 2022 and it will update the market promptly regarding the results.
About Chalice West
Chalice West covers a substantial and mostly undefined greenstone component which has gone largely unrecognised.
It includes a likely continuation of the rocks that host the Chalice gold mine a short distance to the northeast together with lithologies that have the potential to host concentrations of nickel, lithium, rare earths and other elements.