Carrick Gold (ASX: CRK) has received results from a first pass aircore drilling program on its recently acquired Kalgoorlie West Project in Western Australia.
The aircore drilling program comprised 120 holes for approximately 6,500m of drilling over five separate sub-project areas, covering approximately 90km2 in under-explored areas within well endowed gold districts.
The drilling program returned encouraging gold mineralisation from four of the five sub-project areas.
Results included KWAC 023: 1m @ 2.85g/t Au from 60m at end of hole (Rose Channel), KWAC 029: 4m @ 0.50g/t Au from 12m (Grants Patch) KWAC 055: 5m @ 1.54g/t Au from 116m at end of hole (Ora Banda South), KWAC 056: 1m @ 2.00 g/t Au from 68m at end of hole (Zuleika Shear).
The Rose Channel Project lies midway between the Mt Pleasant and the Paddington Mining Centres. The project covers an untested section of the well gold mineralized Roe Palaeochannel.
Anomalous gold mineralisation was returned from several holes, with the most significant result being 1m @ 2.85g/t Au from 60m at end of hole in KWAC 023. The gold mineralisation in KWAC 023 is associated with a quartz veined, sericite altered felsic to granitic porphyry at end of hole.
The Grants Patch Project is located within the Grants Patch gold mining centre and overlies a structurally complicated zone near the interpreted base of the regionally well gold mineralised Mt Pleasant Sill.
The best result was 4m @ 0.50g/t Au from 12m down hole in KWAC 029.
The Ora Banda South Project comprises seven semi-contiguous prospecting licences covering 1,317 hectares, located immediately south of the Ora Banda gold mining centre.
Several drill holes returned anomalous gold results with the best results returned from holes KWAC 055 and KWAC 056 from testing of the southern gold in soil anomaly.
These drill holes returned intersections of KWAC 055 – 5m @ 1.54g/t Au from 116m down hole associated with a strongly foliated, carbonate-silica altered, quartzsulphide veined felsic volcanic/volcaniclastic and KWAC 056 – 1m @ 2.00 g/t Au from 68m down hole associated with a moderately weathered, strongly iron oxide stained felsic volcanic/volcaniclastic.
A follow up program of infill and extensional aircore drilling is planned to assess the extent and the significance of the mineralisation intersected in KWAC 055 and KWAC 056.
A first pass aircore drill program at the Zuleika Shear Project was undertaken to test a coherent 2.2km long north-west trending gold in soil anomaly (>20ppb, peak 109ppb Au) along the western side of tenements.
The aircore drilling returned several zones of anomalous gold mineralisation, predominantly at bottom of hole, associated with partially weathered polymitic conglomerate.
The best result was 2m @ 1.86g/t Au from 56m down hole in KWAC 095 at end of hole.
A program of aircore drilling (20 holes, KWAC 101 – 120) was completed at the Kundana North Project to test for mineralisation associated with the gabbro – sediment contact at the Powder Blanc Prospect.
The drilling successfully defined the gabbro – sediment contact, but failed to return any significant gold mineralisation.