Kalgoorlie Gold Mining has completed further airborne (AC) drilling of the thick gold seams at its Pinjin Project in the Goldfields region of Western Australia, as part of a mission to expand the promising Wessex target, located just 650m southwest of Hawthorn Resources’ Anglo-Saxon drill hole.

As a further extension of its latest campaign, the company also drilled 25 holes at the Kirgella Gift North and Providence West zones. The total program consisted of 67 AC drill holes for 3,726 m of drilling at three locations to also pursue possible resource extensions at Kirgella North and Providence West.

KalGold’s Pinjin Project lies 140km north-east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, on the highly prospective Laverton tectonic zone – a major crustal suture that hosts some of the state’s most important gold and base metal resources. The company’s latest round of drilling was designed, in part, to establish the existence and nature of any relationship between the Wessex and Anglo-Saxon mineralised zones.

The first phase of AC drilling revealed some eye-catching intercepts, including one hole that revealed 28m at 1.27 grams per tonne gold from 36m, 8m at 1.9 g/t gold from 44m and a further 8m at 2.15 g/t gold from 56m. The second hole revealed another significant intercept of 12m at 1.17 g/t gold from 52m, including 4m at 3.07 g/t gold from 56m.

KalGold considers the intercepts to be significant, particularly from the first phase of AC appraisal drilling, and also demonstrates the potential of the Wessex zone at the southern end of the Pinjin gold deposit and the company’s project area in general. The results from the first phase of AC drilling suggest the possibility that Wessex is part of a wider gold system associated with the nearby Anglo-Saxon open pit mine, and also indicate untested target potential to the north and south of current drilling and the east slope from Wessex towards Anglo-Saxon.

Following the Phase 1 results, Kalgold said that if further AC drilling detected any gold scent that could indicate potentially deeper targets, especially in the expected downhole extensions towards Anglo-Saxon, it could justify deploying a reverse circulation (RC) drill due to its longer reach and likely need to penetrate fresh rock targets. And so it proved, as the AC drill pushed all holes to drill failure in Phase 2.

Further south at Kirgella Gift and Providence, management disclosed a maiden mineral resource estimate just over a month ago for both deposits of 2.34 million tonnes at an average gold grade of 1 g/t for 76,400 ounces from just 3 metres. It stated that mineralisation remains open at depth and along strike between two sets of historic workings and has significant potential for resource growth and upgrade if untested and ungraded blocks are drilled outside the resource model boundaries.

This led to the assignment of five holes to the Kirgella Gift North extension program to a depth of 204 m and 20 holes to the Providence West program to a depth of 648 m as part of the latest AC program designed to test the potential for repeating the mineralisation present at the Providence deposit.

KalGold now plans to commence further AC drilling next month to test other targets within the Pinjin project area with results expected in November. The Company is also preparing programs for November and December to build on past results and anticipates these will include deeper RC drilling at Wessex to define gold mineralization in fresh rock and additional RC drilling to upgrade and/or extend the combined Mineral Resources at Kirgella Gift and Providence.

Management also expects to conduct extended reconnaissance and other AC drilling throughout the project area, with results from the extensive November/December drilling programs expected to be available in January next year.

With the hope of proving the link between the Wessex and Anglo-Saxon zones and with further extensions expected at Kirgella North and Providence West, KalGold will be looking forward to the results of its Phase 2 AC program which will help to determine and finalise future drilling plans and designs.

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