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       Alkane booms off                    The project area has already delivered   surface Kaiser deposit.  Drill intercept
                                           some strong indications of a big porphyry   highlights from KSRC027 included: 40m
       Cadia-style potential               system near surface at Kaiser and, along   @ 1.30 g/t gold and 0.22% copper from
                                           with the results from this diamond drill   surface (including 10m @ 2.86 g/t and
        Alkane  Resources  Ltd’s  share  price   hole at Boda, we can see clear evidence   0.36% from surface), 2m @ 3.24 g/t and
       boomed last month on the back of a sig-  of  Cadia-style  mineralisation  and  grade   0.26% from 25m and, from  KSRC029:
       nificant  discovery  of  porphyry  gold-cop-  over hundreds of metres. Alkane is imme-  32m @ 0.53 g/t and 0.27% from 2m (in-
       per mineralisation at its Boda prospect,   diately prioritising follow up drilling, seek-  cluding 11m @ 1.09 g/t, 0.4% from 9m).
       within the Northern Molong porphyry pro-  ing to determine the scale of this highly   Boda and Kaiser are part of the NMPP
       ject (NMPP) in Central West New South   encouraging discovery,” Alkane Resourc-  which incorporates exploration licens-
       Wales.                              es managing director Nic Earner said.  es covering an area of 110sq km of the
        The company went into a trading halt   Drill intercept highlights at Boda from   northern Molong Volcanic Belt. The area
       on September 5 priced at 38c/share and   KSDD003 included: 502m @ 0.48 g/t   is considered highly prospective for large
       when it announced the Boda discovery   gold, 0.2% copper from 211m (includ-  porphyry gold-copper mineralisation,  as
       on September 9 Alkane shares hit 56c.   ing 313m @ 0.62 g/t, 0.17% from 228m,   demonstrated by the Cadia Valley por-
       At the time of print, Alkane was trading at   including 12m @ 3.28 g/t, 0.67% from   phyry district, south of the volcanic belt.
       71c/share as interest in Boda intensified.  419m) and 35.8m @ 0.21 g/t, 0.49% from
        “These  drill  results  suggest  a  signifi-  735m to end-of-hole.
       cant  and  exciting  discovery  in  a  region   At  Kaiser,  assays  confirmed  strong   Northern Minerals
       that has a history of delivering large, low-  gold-copper  porphyry  mineralisation
       grade and long-life gold-copper mines.   200m south-east of the small near-  dazzles
                                                                                 RC  infill  drilling  at  Dazzler,  part  of
                                                                                Northern Minerals Ltd’s Browns Range
                                                                                project, has produced a best ever result
                                                                                of 52m @ 4.15% TREO from 20m (includ-
                                                                                ing 18m @ 11.48% from 22m).
                                                                                 Another intersection of note was 20m
                                                                                @ 0.62% TREO from 16m (including 4m
                                                                                @ 1.91% from 22m), while a new discov-
                                                                                ery south-east of Dazzler also produced
                                                                                encouraging results.
                                                                                 Northern Minerals was continuing with
                                                                                3,000m of infill and exploration RC drilling
                                                                                in the Dazzler-Iceman area, while 1,500m
                                                                                of exploration RC drilling at four other
                                                                                prospects was also under way last month
                                                                                at the West Australian project.

                                                                                Lift off at Lake Rebecca
                                                                                 Strong drill results continue to be re-
                                                                                ported  from  Apollo  Consolidated  Ltd’s
                                                                                Lake Rebecca gold project in Western
                                                                                Australia.
                                                                                 Diamond drilling at the Jennifer lode re-
                                                                                turned 11.75m @ 2.28 g/t gold and 4m @
                                                                                5.27 g/t (including 1m @ 17.46 g/t). Drill-
                                                                                ing was continuing at Jennifer at the time
                                                                   Nic Earner   of print, including at the new target area







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