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Kin Mining grows Cardinia Hill’s resource potential with more strong gold assays

Last updated: 09:55 16 Jul 2021 AEST, First published: 09:49 16 Jul 2021 AEST

Kin Mining NL - Kin Mining grows Cardinia Hill’s resource potential with latest gold assays
Kin Mining's latest gold assays will help upgrade Cardinia Hill's mineral resource.

Kin Mining NL’s (ASX:KIN) Cardinia Hill deposit within the flagship Cardinia Gold Project (CGP) continues to grow, with further strong gold assays released ahead of a resource upgrade.

The gold project explorer and developer says resource drilling at the deposit continues to pay off, with the latest round uncovering as much as 11 metres at 2.52 g/t gold and 7.8 metres at 2.9 g/t within Cardinia Hill’s sulphide zone.

Ultimately, the fresh assays strengthen the deposit’s high-grade potential at depth, boding well for a mineral resource upgrade expected later this quarter.

Cardinia Hill forms part of Kin Mining’s wholly-owned CGP in Western Australia’s northeastern Goldfields.

During the June quarter, Kin delivered an updated mineral resource estimate at its flagship asset - 1.23 million gold ounces, grading 1.28 g/t.

“High-grade zones confirmed to considerable depth”

Kin Mining managing director Andrew Munckton said: “The phase four drilling program was completed at Cardinia Hill in late May and these final results from the deeper component of the program demonstrate the continuity of high-grade mineralisation within the Southern and Northern shoots up to 200 metres below surface.

“We are particularly pleased to see the high-grade zones now confirmed to a considerable depth and into potential future underground mining positions.

“These results will all feed into what we hope to be a significant mineral resource upgrade at Cardinia Hill later this quarter, which will cement its position as one of our cornerstone deposits at the Cardinia Gold Project.”

Exploration at Cardinia Hill

Interestingly, the Cardinia Hill deposit is a relatively new find for the Kin exploration team.

Uncovered in early 2020 within a discovery hole that intersected 9 metres at 3.05 g/t gold, the deposit has continued to return consistent, high-grade, near-surface gold mineralisation during reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling.

Significantly, the mineralisation at Cardinia Hill is defined over 800 metres of strike, remaining open to the north and at depth.

Today’s fresh assays, which cover 14 drill holes and 1,561 metres, represent the final 30% of a planned resource infill and extensional program at the gold prospect.

Some of the best intersections include:

  • 11 metres at 2.52 g/t gold from 205 metres;
  • 7.8 metres at 2.90 g/t from 267.2 metres and;
  • 4.5 metres at 2.67 g/t from 168.6 metres.

Overall, 13 of the 14 deep holes drilled at the deposit intersected the Cardinia mineralised structure.

In addition, the results continue to confirm the continuity of Cardinia Hill’s mineralisation and elevated gold grades. Drilling has also extended the southern and northern high-grade shoots to 200 metres below the surface.

Cardinia Hill is just 2 kilometres from the centre of the CGP. In December last year, Kin was able to estimate an inferred mineral resource totalling 1.2 million tonnes at 1.66 g/t for 61,000 contained gold ounces.

With the new results in tow, however, Kin hopes to boost the deposit’s mineral resource.

Resource upgrade on the horizon

The latest results from Cardinia Hill form part of a broader 58-hole, 9,100-metre diamond and RC campaign designed to extend the deposit’s mineral resource roughly 200 metres below the surface and along strike to the north.

Now the resource definition drilling program has run its course, Independent Metallurgical Operations has kicked off a metallurgical test-work program on specially drilled metallurgical cores from the deposit.

Metallurgical test-work, which will first concentrate on the grinding and leaching performance of sulphide samples, is scheduled to complete in the September quarter.

With all assays now received, Kin will begin work on a resource upgrade, which the company hopes to release later this quarter.

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