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Legend on paydirt drilling in New South Wales this year. cant intersections greater than 20m thick-
Follow-up drilling at Hume (93m @ 4.24
ness. Drilling is part of a programme fol-
in Fraser g/t gold from 56m) to depths of 510m and lowing up on the historic 12.26mt resource
379m respectively, has been completed at at Mount Hope identified in 1973.
Legend Mining Ltd managing direc- the Cullarin project and assays pending at In addition to a resource at Mount Hope,
tor Mark Wilson said the company had the time of print. more drilling is planned for the Poochera
hit paydirt at the Mawson project in the Meanwhile, Sky plans to complete drilling JV with Minotaur Exploration Ltd ahead of
Fraser Range after first assay results from at the Kangiara and Caledonian gold pro- a PFS on the project due for release this
RKDD008. jects in May/June. month.
“The results and photos from the sul- There are currently no state or federal re-
phide zones in hole eight confirm economic strictions preventing Sky from rolling out its Chalice leads the way
grades of nickel-copper-cobalt. In simple programmes.
terms this is paydirt,” Wilson said. Chalice Gold Mines Ltd’s second dia-
Assays results have been received from Andromeda’s fine mond drill hole at Julimar, 70km north of
five intervals of significant nickel-copper Perth, has intersected both massive and
sulphide mineralisation, with two zones of white line matrix sulphides over significant intervals.
heavy disseminated, semi massive and Andromeda Metals Ltd is poised to re- Hole JD002 at the Gonneville intrusive
massive nickel-copper sulphide including veal a resource at the Mount Hope hal- at the southern end of the 26km-long
5.8m @ 0.97% nickel, 0.61% copper, 0.05% loysite-kaolin project in South Australia Julimar intrusive complex was drilled as
cobalt from 148m; 10.4m @ 1.32% nickel, next month. a scissor hole of JD001 which returned
1.11% copper, 0.07% cobalt from 153.8m. An aircore programme consisting of 40 19m @ 8.4 g/t palladium, 1.1 g/t plati-
Meanwhile, three zones of massive holes for 1,383m has reportedly hit signifi- num, 2.6% nickel, 1% copper and 0.14%
nickel-copper sulphide were also reported, cobalt from 48m in massive and matrix
which included 5.6m @ 2.85% nickel, 1.86% sulphides.
copper, 0.15% cobalt from 199.4m; 6.9m @ Strongly mineralised massive and ma-
2.55% nickel, 1.67% copper, 0.14% cobalt trix sulphide mineralisation was intersect-
from 218.2m and 12.8m @ 2.76% nickel, ed in JD002 from the base of complete
1.36% copper, 0.14% cobalt from 234.9m. oxidation at 34.9m to 101m downhole (not
Meanwhile, the diamond rig has been true width), confirming the interpretation
moved to drill hole RKDD012 after two of a westerly dipping zone with massive
zones of significant nickel-copper sul- sulphides over 34.9-44.7m and 48.7-
phides were intersected in RKDD01. The 68.3m and matrix sulphide from 68.3-
upper interval returned 15m of vein, brec- 101m
cia, disseminated, semi-massive nickel- All assays for JD002 were pending at
copper sulphides from 129.25m-144.25m, the time or print. Chalice’s success has
while the lower level returned three massive spurred Liontown Resources Ltd to com-
nickle-copper sulphides intercepts totalling plete an initial phase of ground-based ex-
12.4m within 21.6m from 217.5m-239.1m. ploration work at its 100%-owned Moora
Structural logging and downhole EM nickel project, about150km north-north-
were underway at the time or print with as- east of Perth, while DevEx Resources Ltd
says to follow. has lodged three exploration licence ap-
plications within the Julimar complex.
No limits on Sky’s Meanwhile, Mandrake Resources
Ltd has entered into a conditional bind-
drilling ing heads of agreement with Andean
After completing tranche two of a recent Energy Resources Pty Ltd to farm-in to
capital raising, Sky Metals Ltd has $11.5 ELA 70/5345 (Jimperding project), about
million in the bank and is fully funded for Andromeda is forging ahead on two fronts within 30km east of Julimar.
South Australia’s emerging halloysite-kaolin sector Cassini Resources Ltd is also active

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