WOW.
ESTRELLA MAY HAVE JUST UNCOVERED A MONSTER.
The rig broke down with continuous manganese found and open at depth!
* 6.45m of MASSIVE manganese oxides starting at just 1.35m downhole
* This thing starts basically at surface — you could dig it out with a shovel
* PXRF average across the intercept: 40.1% Mn
* Multiple zones logged as 100% MnO. That’s not a typo. 100%!
* The hole had to be STOPPED at 7.8m... still in mineralisation
* Why? The rig couldn’t handle the soft, friable, manganese-packed ground
* The ground was too manganese-rich for the rig to keep going. Let that sink in.
This isn’t just a good hit — it’s a freakish result.
They drilled 3m behind an outcrop where surface samples hit up to 58.6% Mn, and BAM — 6.45m of high-grade Mn straight away. Then trenching 8m away hits more Mn just 0.7m below surface.
No prior modern exploration. This is virgin ground. They didn’t stumble into a system... they tripped over it.
And here's the question — how deep does this thing go?! They never found the bottom. The hole ended because the manganese was too intense for the rig. That's a problem every explorer dreams of.
PXRF samples show:
* 1.45m: 100% MnO
* 2.1m: 100% MnO
* 4.7m: 100% MnO
* 6.3m: 100% MnO
* 7.3m: 100% MnO
This hole alone confirms serious potential. But if that mineralisation continues at depth — we are looking at something absolutely massive.
With Chris Daws now in Tokyo at the global IMnI Manganese Conference, you better believe this core will be turning heads.
Deeper drilling starts in 2 weeks with a rig that can go the distance.
This is just the beginning.
Let the madness begin.
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