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Poseidon prepares for from 72m), 36m @ 1.3 g/t from 30m (in- lowed the company’s reporting of assays
cluding 11m @ 3 g/t from 55m) and 9m @
from its recent diamond programme at the
maiden resource 1.8 g/t from 75m. Leinster nickel project.
Big Sky is positioned along the gold cor- Best results included 8m @ 0.45% nickel
Poseidon Nickel Ltd has wrapped up re- ridor south-west of the Lena and Break of from 19m, 5m @ 0.3% nickel from 66m, 4m
source definition drilling at Golden Swan Day deposits. Gold mineralisation remains @ 0.3% nickel from 80m and 7m @ 0.4%
ahead of this month’s maiden resource an- open to the south and down-dip where RC nickel from 52m across the Woodwind, Per-
nouncement. drilling is continuing. cussion, Brass and Firefly prospects.
Assays continue to return good widths “The continuity of the broad near-surface Downhole EM surveys have also been
and grade, including some very high-grade gold mineralisation intersected to date is completed on all holes, with two conductive
intervals which are expected to bulk up the very encouraging and demonstrates we targets identified at Woodwind and Brass.
tonnes in the mineralised zone. are onto a large gold system at Big Sky These are expected to be drill-tested immi-
Some of the best intercepts from the drill- with the potential to deliver a significant nently.
ing campaign at Golden Swan include 0.8m near-surface resource,” Musgrave manag-
@ 14.3% nickel from 178.85m, 2.95m @ ing director Rob Waugh said.
4.46% from 166.85m and 3.95m @ 5.1% Assays for more than 57 RC holes from Rox joins the link to
nickel from 168m (including 0.7m @ 11.9% Big Sky are pending. Diamond and aircore higher grades
from 168.45m). Another hit containing 5.7m drilling at West Island and Austin North –
@ 5.96% nickel from 202.3m (including under a JV with Evolution Mining Ltd – is Rox Resources Ltd’s drilling of near-mine
0.62m @ 8.46% from 202.75m and 2.06m continuing. prospects at Youanmi continues to deliver
@ 7.78% from 204.5m including 0.5m @ high-grade gold.
13.7% from 205.9m) was also returned. Assays from four RC holes drilled at the
Drilling has now shifted to the Southern Drill results are music project in May returned hits of 17m @ 5.14 g/t
Terrace prospect where the company is to Auroch’s ears gold from 151m (including 11m @ 7 g/t from
chasing more Golden Swan-style minerali- 156m) at Link, 9m @ 4.57 g/t from 148m at
sation. Auroch Minerals Ltd has started diamond Junction and 2m @ 10.02 g/t from 268m at
The Silver Swan reserve upgrade drilling drilling Nepean Deeps in a bid to test for pos- Youanmi South.
programme was also expected to kick off at sible extensions to the known high-grade Rox managing director Alex Passmore
the time of print and is designed to increase nickel sulphide mineralisation below historic said the high-grade results would contribute
the high-grade nickel mining inventory mine workings at its Nepean project. to further resource growth at Youanmi, about
across the broader Black Swan project. The first holes into Nepean Deeps fol- 480km north-east of Perth.
Big Sky potential for

Musgrave at Cue

Big Sky, part of Musgrave Minerals Ltd’s
Cue project, is shaping as a significant
large-scale gold system after RC drilling
returned more near-surface mineralisation
within the prospective 2.6km long corridor.
Assays from 35 recent RC holes con-
firmed consistent, near-surface gold min-
eralisation. New intersections include 18m
@ 2 g/t gold from 18m, 18m @ 1.2 g/t from
18m, 24m @ 1.7 g/t from 24m and 30m @
1 g/t from 30m.
Re-assaying of 1m samples from origi-
nal composites also returned 73m @ 1.4 Auroch continues to churn out impressive exploration results from its nickel portfolio
g/t gold from 41m (including 5m @ 10.1 g/t

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