Kingwest Resources has produced an exceptional set of first pass drill results that appear to show a significant gold discovery lurking under the mineralised cover at Lake Goongarrie north of Kalgoorlie. Twelve holes intersected significant gold values across a 500 metre extent of the first drill line within Target A10 of the newly named Sir Laurence prospect under the lake at Goongarrie.
Best assays in the first pass set of results include 3m @ 6.5 grams per tonne gold and 3m @ 4.1 g/t gold.
Other notable numbers were 8m at 1/7 g/t and 4m at 2.3 g/t gold. All mineralised results were encountered in a clear band between about 84m downhole and 100m.
To-date Kingwest has completed 233 aircore holes for 5,638m on 18 lines in total and only 25 per cent of assays are in at this point.
Importantly management says the prospect remains open in all directions and a plethora of additional litho-structural targets remain to be drilled.
The initial drilling program has been completed with three types of drill holes: deep angled comprising 60 holes for 4,422m, shallow vertical holes comprising 158 holes for 513m and only fifteen deep holes for 703m.
Assays from the 23 holes in the first line of drilling yielded a stunning 12 holes with greater than 1m at 1.0 g/t gold along a 500m interval.
Kingwest Resources Chief Executive Officer, Ed Turner commented: “I am very excited by these results from our first drill traverse beneath Lake Goongarrie which validates the Kanowna Belle litho-structural model that we used to target this particular area. To intersect significant mineralisation at this early stage is very encouraging and a credit to our geological team. These results support our targeting for a potential major discovery, which we have named the Sir Laurence Prospect. We have just scratched the surface of bedrock mineralisation at this stage. I look forward to receiving the outstanding assays as well as planning follow up drilling along strike within Target A10, which includes many other similar litho-structural targets.”
According to the company, the Sir Laurence Prospect is shaping up to be an extensive area of newly discovered gold mineralisation that has been historically masked by the significant cover in the area. Management says the new discovery supports its litho-structural targeting theory that is based on the significant mineralisation at the Kanowna Belle gold mine in the region.
Gold has been defined in a 500m wide weathered zone overlying a 400m wide bedrock zone in a thick Black Flag Group conglomerate. Mineralisation styles include bedrock gold mineralisation and bedrock hydrothermal alteration.
Kingwest manufactured specially designed “mud buggies” to carry the drilling equipment onto the soft muddy surface of the Goongarrie salt lake.
The company says immediate follow-up work will include additional aircore drilling, passive seismic surveys to aid in targeting drill holes and diamond core drilling to provide structural and sedimentary control on the gold mineralisation.
Kingwest's Goongarrie gold project is located south of the company’s Menzies gold project with both strategically located between Leonora and Kalgoorlie.
The Kingwest landpackage at Goongarries covers approximately 125 square kilometres over a strike length in excess of 25km. Kingwest has to date delineated 10 main targets that require drilling with only five targets drilled so far.
With only a hand full of assays in hand the anticipation around Sir Lawrence is mounting.
Just what sort of mineralised monster is lurking below the Goongarrie lake is yet to be determined but one thing seems certain based on the first pass results – there is something down there.
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