Western Mines Group says it has delivered its best assay results to date from its Mulga Tank nickel-copper-platinum group elements (PGE) project in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields region.
Assays show a whopping 694m intercept grading 0.31 per cent nickel, 141 parts per million cobalt, 68ppm copper and 30 parts per billion platinum and palladium.
Management says the super-wide section shows evidence for possible Perseverance-style mineralisation and includes 96m going 0.4 per cent nickel from 1208m, with 8m at 1.11 per cent nickel from 1270m. A similar intersection of 88m at 0.44 per cent nickel from 1212m, with individual results of up to 0.69 per cent nickel was recorded in a previous hole.
The company is currently undertaking both diamond and reverse-circulation (RC) drilling programs at Mulga Tank. The RC campaign aims to test the extent of shallow disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation, while the diamond drilling program continues to test deeper targets.
Further drillholes will continue to be added in ongoing targeting work, as management systematically explores the Mulga Tank ultramafic complex.
These assay results from MTD027 surpass previous results from EIS holes MTD023 and MTD026 and further confirm we have discovered a huge working nickel sulphide mineral system within the Mulga Tank Ultramafic Complex. The assay results support the visual observations and clearly show nearly 700m of disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation. Western Mines Group managing director Caedmon Marriott
Just yesterday, Western Mines signed a binding agreement with Dynamic Metals to secure a key tenement that significantly expands the former’s Mulga Tank project. The acquisition takes the total area of Mulga Tank to 425 square kilometres, covering about 37km strike and the entire Minigwal greenstone belt that management says is under-explored due to the presence of shallow sand cover.
The tenement has already been granted with Western Mines set to immediately kick off exploration programs at the site. Management says the new ground contains interpreted ultramafic bodies and potential komatiite channels from the main Mulga Tank dunite intrusion.
The interpreted ultramafic bodies are yet to be drill-tested, but are believed to be extensions of the komatiite sequences it drilled in the Panhandle area of the Mulga Tank complex.
Just last month, the company kicked off an initial 18-hole RC campaign of 5400m at Mulga Tank to test the extent of shallow disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation across the ultramafic complex.
Western Mines describes its latest drillhole as a “wildcat” in the previously undrilled eastern portion of the Mulga Tank ultramafic complex. The hole was expected to intersect the footwall of the intrusion at about 750m to 800m, based on the geological model, but ended up encountering footwall at 1630.9m.
The visual results seen down the hole encouraged the company to continue drilling right to the basal contact, becoming the deepest hole ever drilled at Mulga Tank.
The latest announcement from Western Mines is the third in as many days, showing the company is keen to inform its shareholders of the continuing efforts it is investing in its promising Mulga Tank project.
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