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          muSgraVe STill FiNdiNg more high-grade                Emmerson  is  entitled  to  a  free-carried  6%  gold  production
          gold aT cue                                           royalty from TCMG over all mines within the JV areas, including
                                                                Chariot.
          Musgrave Minerals Ltd has identified four potential new lodes
                                                                The new resource for Chariot supports a conceptual high-grade
          from regional drilling at its flagship Cue gold project in Western
                                                                17.7 g/t open pit and a 6.3 g/t underground operation.
          Australia’s Murchison district.
                                                                Chariot was originally discovered by Normandy Mining in 1998
          RC  drilling  of  a  new  target  only  80m  south  of  White  Heat
                                                                and mined by Giants Reef Mining from 2003 to 2005 before a
          intersected two new parallel lodes, including a very high-grade
                                                                low gold price coupled with corporate and mining issues led to
          shallow result of 15m @ 111.6 g/t gold from 25m (including 5m
                                                                its premature closure.
          @ 313.4 g/t from 26m) in the new hanging-wall lode. Drilling also
                                                                According to Emmerson, the Chariot resource remains open
          returned 18m @ 1 g/t gold from 62m in the new footwall lode.
                                                                and  poorly  explored  at  depth,  offering  significant  scope  to
          Musgrave described the targets as analogues to its Starlight
                                                                increase the gold inventory with further drilling.
          discovery, with all new lodes along strike from the Break of Day
          deposit.
          Drilling  of  another  target  about  250m  north  of  Break  of  Day   miramar cruiSiNg oN New lake SySTem
          intersected 1m @ 16.5 g/t from 73m and 1m @ 14.4 g/t from
          90m. Only the one hole has tested this interpreted new lode
          position to date, with the mineralisation open to the east, west
          and down-dip.
          Musgrave managing director Rob Waugh said the high-grade
          results supported the company’s view that “there is a lot more
          gold to be found at Cue”.
          “All of the new gold intersections reported in this release are
          outside the current mineral resource estimates for Cue,” Waugh
          said.
          Extension resource drilling at the White Heat prospect, some      Miramar has completed its first lake aircore drilling
          300m south of Break of Day, also struck 1m @ 21.8 g/t from                          programme at Glandore
          158m and 3m @ 3.5 g/t from 23m.
          Follow-up drilling was under way at the time of print.
                                                                Lake  aircore  drilling  at  Miramar  Resources  Ltd’s  Glandore
                                                                project in the Eastern Goldfields has outlined coherent shallow
          emmerSoN iN The FaST laNe wiTh larger                 supergene  gold  anomalism  over  almost  5km  of  strike  and
          charioT                                               across multiple targets.
                                                                The company’s first lake aircore drilling campaign follows on
          Emmerson Resources Ltd has reported a 40% uplift in total
                                                                from  its  recent  maiden  land-based  aircore  drilling  campaign
          ounces for the Chariot gold deposit in Tennant Creek, Northern
                                                                which returned a number of significant high-grade results.
          Territory.
                                                                Recent drilling targeted the southern and western margins of
          Chariot  now  hosts  556,200t  @  7.8  g/t  for  138,800oz  and  is
                                                                an interpreted granodiorite pluton which intrudes into a layered
          one of several mines currently undergoing scoping studies by   mafic sill. High-grade mineralisation up to 6m @ 29 g/t gold has
          Emmerson’s JV partner Tennant Consolidated Mining Group
                                                                previously been intersected in shallow diamond drilling on the
          (TCMG) ahead of finalising the mining and production schedule.  eastern side of the granodiorite at the Glandore East target.

















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