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zinc from 149m) and 5m @ 0.99 g/t gold,
17.9 g/t silver, 0.27% copper and 2.76%
lead-zinc from 97m (including 1m @ 3.03
g/t gold, 63.4 g/t silver, 0.58% copper and
8.12% lead-zinc from 99m).
The initial drill intercept at Mt Felstead
returned 4m @ 3.1% lead-zinc, 0.2 g/t
gold and 3.6 g/t silver from 137m and
9m @ 9.9% lead-zinc, 2 g/t gold, 28.4
g/t silver and 0.2% copper from 145m
(including 2m @ 29.3% lead-zinc, 5.4 g/t
gold, 94.1 g/t silver and 0.4% copper from
148m).
Legacy has also completed downhole
EM on three holes at Mt Felstead and was
interpreting results at the time of print.
Regional drilling at Saturn’s
Nova back doing what Apollo Hill project returned a
number of important results
it loves most which are tipped to grow the

Drilling has resumed at the high-grade existing 1.47 moz resource base
RPM deposit, part of Nova Minerals Ltd’s
flagship Estelle gold project in Alaska. Saturn finds more in herent zones of mineralisation that warrant
The company said its “absolute focus” further drilling. Significant intersections in-
was growing and converting the current Apollo Hill universe cluded 4m @ 1.86 g/t gold from 64m within
1.5 moz @ 2 g/t gold resource into the 9m @ 0.69 g/t from 64m and 4m @ 1.26 g/t
higher confidence indicated category, Saturn Metals Ltd’s strategy of exploring from 72m within 12m @ 0.63 g/t from 68m.
to feed into the Phase 2 scoping study for complementary gold deposits adjacent Finally at Artemis, 10km north-west of
scheduled for delivery later this year. to the recently upgraded 1.47 moz Apollo Apollo Hill, step-out aircore drilling along
Initial drilling began to the west of the Hill resource continues to show promising trend from the discovery hole (4m @ 4.08 g/t
major discovery hole where the company results. gold from 40m within 33m @ 0.73 g/t gold
hit 132m @ 10.1 g/t gold in September Follow-up RC drilling at the Bob’s pros- from 24m) lengthened the system to 800m
2021. It was the western-most hole drilled pect, 7km east of Apollo Hill, returned sev- in strike. Best hits from the broad-space drill-
in last year’s campaign. eral exciting intersections and further vec- ing completed to date include 4m @ 0.49 g/t
Two additional rigs were being mobi- tors for higher grade mineralisation. Results gold from 40m and 4m @ 0.53 g/t gold from
lised to the RPM deposit at the time of included 10m @ 2.96 g/t gold from 126m 60m.
print. and 3m @ 3.41 g/t gold from 215m, and also Further drilling is planned across all re-
“It is very gratifying to start from scratch extended mineralisation along strike from gional prospects.
in a new frontier doing what we do best previously reported significant intersections. “I look forward to the next round of drilling
and to make such a significant discovery Aircore and RC drilling at Hercules, 17km which will a) follow up on some very strong
as we already have at the RPM deposit,” south-east of Apollo Hill, increased the strike intersections, and b) target new areas on
Nova chief executive Chris Gerteisen length of the mineralised zone to more than our land package based on an ever-refining
said. 3km with new intersections such as 4m @ geological interpretation,” Saturn managing
“With RPM showing all the signatures 4.57 g/t gold from 54m, 4m @ 1.97 g/t gold director Ian Bamborough said.
for over 1.4km in strike length, we expect from 64m & 4m @ 1.44 g/t gold from 40m
to rapidly increase both the size and con- within 20m @ 0.57 g/t gold from 24m.
fidence of the deposit in the current drill At Aquarius, 25km south-east of Apollo
campaign.” Hill, new aircore drilling results showed co-

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