Kairos Minerals has intercepted shallow gold zones with drilling at its Roe Hills project some 120km east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Hits at the Caliburn prospect include 8m at 1.32 grams per tonne gold from just 32m, with a 4m interval going at 2.29 g/t gold. Infill drilling is now on the cards as Kairos looks to work Roe Hills toward a maiden resource estimate.
The latest results come on the back of a 20-hole reverse circulation campaign across the Caliburn, Talc Lake and Black Cat prospects at the 100 per cent owned Roe Hills project.
In the south of the tenure at Caliburn, 10 holes were drilled along four sections for a total of 1,149m, with three of the sections reportedly hitting mineralisation.
Other results from Caliburn include 16m at 1.27 g/t gold from 80m with a richer 4m at 3.17 g/t gold from 84m. Another hole returned 16m at 1.36 g/t gold from 80m including 4m at 3.9 g/t from 92m.
Management says the new results suggest potential for an offset of the mineralised strike with high-grade shoots open at depth and to the south-west.
Infill drilling is now planned as Kairos looks to delineate oxide gold resources at Caliburn, located just 5km from Silver Lake Resources’ French Kiss open-cut mine where a 1.2 million tonne resource going at 1.9 g/t gold has been defined.
Kairos’ Executive Chairman Terry Topping said: “We recently completed about 3,000m of RC drilling at Roe Hills and we’re pleased to report encouraging initial results from composite samples. The key area of focus is the Caliburn prospect, where we intersected wide zones of shallow gold mineralisation. These results have clearly demonstrated the potential to delineate potentially open-pittable gold mineralisation at Caliburn.”
“Given the proximity of Caliburn just 5km south of Silver Lake Resources’ French Kiss operations, adjacent to a haul road and in the heart of an active mining region, we can make a compelling strategic case to return to this area with further drilling in the near future.”
Kairos has commenced 3-dimensional modelling of all drilling data at Caliburn and the nearby Lingering Kiss, Terra and Lady of the Lake prospects. The modelling will be utilised in potential resource estimates at Roe Hills.
Results from a geochemical sampling program to define new drill targets in the vicinity of the four prospects is also due in the current quarter.
Meanwhile at the nearby Talc Lake prospect four holes for 942m were drilled to test a geophysical target for nickel sulphide mineralisation.
Encouragingly, one hole returned 5m at 0.55 per cent nickel and 0.15 per cent coper from 96m, including 1m at 1.33 per cent nickel and 0.45 per cent copper from 99m.
In the north of the tenure at the Black Cat prospect six holes targeted a gold-in-soil anomaly stretching for some 1,800m.
One hole returned 4m at 1.63 g/t gold from 48m and also hit 20m at 0.42 per cent zinc from 96m. Management now plans to evaluate the prospect for volcanic massive sulphide mineralisation potential.
Black Cat lies near Breaker Resources’ emerging Lake Roe gold discovery where some 981,000 ounces of gold have been delineated.
Elsewhere, Kairos continues to smash out the metres at its 100 per cent owned Mt York gold project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Over 10,000m of a 20,000m campaign have now been completed as Kairos looks to grow the 873,500-ounce gold resource at Mt York.
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By Matt Birney
