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The Glandore East footprint has now been extended by at least FirST PhaSe juST The BegiNNiNg For BarToN
1km to the south, with multiple holes returning and/or ending in
Barton Gold Holdings Ltd continues to enjoy a successful start
results above 0.25 g/t gold, including one intersection of 6m @
to drilling at the 223 deposit, part of the company’s Tunkillia gold
0.62 g/t from 12m ending in 2m @ 1.04 g/t.
project in South Australia.
Miramar executive chairman Allan Kelly said the recent lake
Significant new intersections from Phase 1 drilling include 12m
drilling had identified a very substantial gold system at Glandore
@ 2.7 g/t from 101m, 5m @ 4.98 g/t from 68m, 7m @ 2.2 g/t
and greatly increased the potential for the discovery of gold
from 79m, 17m @ 4.31 g/t from 111m, 15m @ 2.28 g/t from
mineralisation similar to the nearby Majestic and Trojan deposits.
139m, 13m @ 3.5 g/t from 100m, 8m @ 3.77 g/t from 115m, 2m
“These results indicate the presence for multiple northeast- @ 11.6 g/t from 97m, 6m @ 1.7 g/t from 120m and 13m @ 2.66
trending mineralised structures within the granodiorite pluton g/t from 150m.
extending over a significant strike length, along with coherent
Assays from the final four drill holes of the programme also
gold mineralisation across several other targets which will need
confirmed recent modelling by the company which suggests a
to be followed up early in the new year,” Kelly said.
potential higher-grade zone of mineralisation central to the 223
“Gold mineralisation at Majestic and Trojan is also hosted in deposit, which hosts a resource of 26.1mt @ 1.15 g/t gold for
northeast-striking structures within granitic intrusions, so our 965,000oz.
recent results indicate significant potential for a similar discovery
Barton also recently reported establishing two new shallow gold
at Glandore.”
zones totalling about 1.5km of new mineralised strike across
the 223 North and Area 191 prospects, extending the total
ardideN aPProVed To drill New ProSPecT mineralised strike at Tunkillia by some 60% to 4sq km.
Ardiden Ltd has received approval from the Ontario Mines “In the four months since
IPO, we have validated our
Department to start drilling at the Esker prospect on the western
hub of the company’s Pickle Lake gold project in Canada. predictions for three key
targets areas and established
A maiden diamond drilling programme of 4,000m has been
two new gold zones with
planned and fully funded to test gold-bearing structures at
1.5km of new shallow, high-
Esker, about 4km directly along strike of Barrick Gold Corp’s
grade mineralisation,” Barton
high-grade Golden Patricia mine.
managing director Alexander
“The process to receive approvals has been arduous and Scanlon said.
taken much longer than we had hoped due to COVID-related
“With 4km of total mineralised
delays and protracted Mines Department processing, but our
strike now defined in
persistence has paid off and we can now begin to evaluate the
a relatively small area,
gold discovery potential of Ardiden’s massive land holding,”
Tunkillia’s project footprint
Ardiden managing director Rob Longley said.
is filling in nicely. A number
“While waiting for the permits, we actively used the time to of local priority targets are
continue geophysical interpretations, flying high resolution Lidar
still to be tested, and with all
over the project. This drill programme at Esker is Ardiden’s first gold zones open at depth and
step onto the western hub and will be the first drilling along
along strike, we are on a clear
these highly prospective and underexplored structures in nearly path to build on our already
30 years.”
large 965,000oz mineral Barton has made significant
A First Nation-owned drilling contractor has been engaged for up resource estimate.” progress at Tunkillia in just four
to 12,000m of drilling at Pickle Lake, beginning in early January. months since its IPO

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