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Chalice toasts resource milestone

ll eyes will be on Chalice Mining Ltd months after the company shot to promi- “We also have Baudin and Jansz, some
Athis month with the market darling nence on the back of the rare nickel-cop- 10km and 18km away from the Gonneville
poised to release a maiden resource es- per-PGE find. deposit, which are a little bit more subtle in
timate for its prized discovery at Julimar, While the market continues to specu- terms of EM response, but still very inter-
70km north of Perth. late about the potential size and grade of esting on the soil geochemistry. I guess we
Chalice managing director Alex Dorsch the Gonneville discovery, Dorsch said his are inferring that the same geology exists
told last month’s Australian Nickel Con- company was pushing ahead with regional there, so we could have many more dis-
ference a resource for the Gonneville de- exploration work, including scaling out the coveries than just the two here at Julimar.”
posit was due “in about the middle part same targeting techniques over Chalice’s Dorsch also highlighted the positive
of this quarter” and a little more than 18 8,000sq km footprint in the Julimar State progress the company had made on the
Forest. metallurgical front with confirmation two
“What we’ve actually found in reality separate concentrate parcels could be
is a greater than 26km-long package of produced from Julimar.
mafic-ultramafic geology and we just hap- “Obviously it’s not worth finding anything
pened to be basically drilling the first hole if you can’t actually get the metal out of the
at the very southern end of that geology rock,” he said. “We’ve done a lot of test
where we made the Gonneville discovery,” work now, really focused on that higher
Dorsch said. grade sulphide mineralisation and we’ve
Coinciding with the release of the maid- proven that we’ve got high metal recover-
en resource for Gonneville, Chalice will ies into two separate concentrates…with
soon have first access over its current low levels of deleterious elements.”
boundary into the Julimar State Forest and Chalice is expected to incorporate those
start drilling the Hartog target to the north results into a scoping study on Julimar
where the company is planning to punch which the company has slated for comple-
about 70 holes over a 10km strike length. tion during the first half of next year.
“All the indications are there that we
Chalice managing director Alex Dorsch have a continuation of the mineralising – Michael Washbourne
with general manager exploration system to the north,” Dorsch said.
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