DiscovEx Resources has revealed a highly-encouraging gold in soil anomaly through geochemical sampling at its Edjudina project 250km northeast of Kalgoorlie, WA.
The delineated zone exhibits more than 50 parts per billion gold continuously over 1.3km with some results going as high as 100ppb gold. Importantly the anomaly remains open to the northeast.
The company’s newly-defined 1.3km gold trend has been coined the Spartan prospect and sits within a broader 1.8km long anomaly of 25ppb gold.
DiscovEx Resources Managing Director, Toby Wellman says: “The significance of this gold anomaly cannot be ignored, especially considering the size of the anomalous footprint and the grade of the results returned.”
The 380-sample geochemical program was completed on a 100m by 200m grid pattern east of the project’s dual Hornet prospects to follow up on a previous patch of soil samples running up to 0.14 grams per tonne gold.
Spartan is 1km east of the Hornet East prospect and within 3km of Hornet West. Notably, both Hornet prospects have been probed with the drill bit whereas Spartan is – for now – virgin territory with further soil sampling planned to the northeast.
In 2020, DiscovEx tabled a solid array of drill hits at Hornet West, including 7m at 1.8 g/t gold from 40m, 4m at 1.2 g/t from 52m and a higher grade 1m yielding 5.3 g/t gold from 51m.
Historical data at Hornet East records a 1m hit going 1.5 g/t gold in addition to another 1m of 0.74 g/t.
The explorer says past drill holes intersected gold mineralisation at the interface between fresh and weathered rock and as such is classified as ‘supergene’ mineralisation – a commonly-encountered style in weathered environments and anomalies of this nature often represent the remobilisation of gold from its source location.
DiscovEx says the source of the Hornet East and West anomalies remains unknown.
The company plans to continue extending the anomaly to the northeast with additional sampling in the coming weeks. About 10km to the southeast, regional sampling will continue to the south and west of the Jaguar prospect.
Once its submitted permits have been approved, the explorer plans to drill its project.
DiscovEx has met the farm-in requirements agreed with private company Crest Investment Group 3 and now holds an 80 per cent interest in several tenements forming part of the larger Edjudina project. DiscovEx wholly owns a further four Edjudina tenements.
Notably, Northern Star Resources’ operating mine Deep South sits just 5km from DiscovEx’s western fence.
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