Highlights
Latest drilling extends shallow oxide and transitional mineralisation close to the Wiluna CIL plant. Wiluna oxide and transitional ores scheduled to feed the Wiluna CIL plant in 2018 with strong recovered grades. Mining studies well advanced on the Wiluna free milling starter pits. Wiluna free milling resource and reserve updates to be completed in September ’18 quarter. East-West Cross Structures – High grade free-milling mineralisation confirmed near surface: 20m @ 4.84g/t from 5m incl. 9m @ 8.76g/t 97g*m WURC0622 19m @ 3.52g/t from 3m incl. 2m @ 10.63g/t 67g*m WURC0623 22m @ 2.97g/t from 11m incl. 7m @ 5.90g/t 65g*m WURC0619 14m @ 4.23g/t from 16m incl. 7m @ 7.66g/t 59g*m WURC0627 22m @ 2.38g/t from 3m 52g*m WURC0617 13m @ 3.58g/t from 48m incl. 3m @ 5.30g/t 47g*m WURC0630 15m @ 2.70g/t from 32m 41g*m WURC0624 19m @ 2.00g/t from 40m 38g*m WURC0625 Happy Jack – High grade free milling mineralisation confirmed around existing pit: 19m @ 6.36g/t from 35m 121g*m WURC0598 7m @ 7.62g/t from 35m 53g*m WURC0585 8m @ 4.65g/t from 112m & 10m @ 7.93g/t from 136m 117g*m WURC0603 12m @ 2.29g/t from 122m, 9m @ 6.83g/t from 147m 99g*m WURC0589 8m @ 2.30g/t from 2m, 23m @ 1.59g/t from 18m & 20m @ 8.70g/t from 72m 229g*m WURC0602 Bulletin and Essex – High grade deeper intercepts show potential for oxide and sulphide pit cutbacks: 6m @ 3.81g/t from 103m incl. & 13m @ 1.95g/t from 127m 48g*m WURC0600 11m @ 2.23g/t from 19m 25g*m WURC0605
Blackham Resources Limited (ASX: BLK) (Blackham or the Company) is pleased to present final results from the Wiluna free milling drill programme. During March’18 to May’18, Blackham’s exploration team drilled 133 RC holes (11,612m) focused on delineating further free milling open pit reserves over the 3.7kms of strike at the Wiluna Mine. The results reported are from the final 66 holes received (5,326m). All Wiluna Mine drilling assays have now been received and will be incorporated into Blackham’s next resources and reserves update anticipated in the September ’18 quarter. This is a follow up programme to the 77,000m of drilling completed during 2017, which successfully delivered probable reserves of 669,000oz (7.7Mt @ 2.7g/t Au) within Wiluna open pit cutbacks. The A$1,600 Au/oz pit optimisations shown below were completed immediately prior to the latest drilling, and confirm the potential for open pit cutbacks and new free milling open pits to be developed at the Wiluna mine site. These latest drilling results are expected to support substantial increases to open pit resources and reserves within open pits.
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