Drill Results at Widgiemooltha Nth Nickel Project 30-04 1343
Titan Resources NL today announced that the recent diamond drilling program at the Armstrong prospect, within the Widgiemooltha North Project Area located 80km south-west of Kalgoorlie, had increased the potential of the nickel project.
This latest drilling has confirmed the presence of a high-grade massive sulphide component to the Armstrong resource in addition to identifying extensions to the deposit.
A refinement of the current geological model and a resource re-assessment for this high-grade nickel mineralisation is underway. Studies on the economics of mining this material for processing at WMC's Kambalda concentrator will follow completion of this work.
The recent drilling of 13 new diamond core holes has proved highly successful with most of the holes intersecting nickel mineralisation. Assay results have been received for eight of these holes.
The best result was returned from WDD005 which yielded 7 metres at 7.95% Ni from 220 metres, including 3.5 metres at 12.13% Ni. This intersection occurs outside of the current ore envelope and represents the opportunity for a significant upgrade to the nickel sulphide resource of 917,000 tonnes at 1.85% nickel. Some of the other high-grade intercepts from this recent drill program include 15 metres at 3.01% Ni, including 1.9 metres at 9.99%, in WDD001 and 2.7 metres at 3.59% Ni in WDD007.
Diamond drill results received so far are presented in the table below. All intercepts are close to true width. Results for the remaining five holes are expected to be available within the next two weeks.
Reverse Circulation and Diamond drilling will recommence at Armstrong on May 7, to follow up these exciting results.
The highly prospective Cippolini anomaly, which was defined by RAB drilling during the March quarter, will be the subject of first-pass drilling as part of the planned RC program at Widgiemooltha scheduled to commence next week. Cippolini, which is situated immediately south of the McEwen deposit, represents a very exciting grass-roots target that may prove to be an entirely new ore shoot or perhaps the southern extension to the western limb of the McEwen deposit.
The upcoming drill program will also test the O'Grady prospect, situated approximately 5km south of the Armstrong nickel deposit and 6km north west of the Widgiemooltha townsite. Previous exploration has identified massive nickel sulphides in a number of holes and further drilling is planned to verify this mineralisation and to confirm the geological model, as well as to test for extensions to the ore.
The drilling campaign will also test the newly defined nickel anomalies at Carr Boyd, 70 km north of Kalgoorlie.
* Note: The Project mineral resources detailed in this report accurately reflect information compiled by Ms Karilyn Farmer of Titan Resources NL who has relevant experience in relation to the mineralisation being reported on to qualify as a Competent Person as defined by the Australasian Code for Reporting of Identified Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves.
For further information, please contact: Mr Bill Ryan MANAGING DIRECTOR Titan Resources NL (08) 9481 6040
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