Meeka Metals has delivered more high-grade gold hits from the prolifically mineralised Fairway Shear zone, which dominates the company’s Murchison gold project in Western Australia.
Drilling results at its new Rosapenna target, just 500 metres south of the company’s Turnberry South deposit, returned a best hit of 23m grading 1.05 grams per tonne (g/t) gold, including a 4-metre slice running at 4.67g/t.
Additional intersections included 10m grading 1.95g/t gold and 10m at 0.58g/t gold within the same hole.
The company says the gold remains open to the south, the east and to the west, highlighting the potential for a new discovery. Consequently, ground immediately to the south is now being eyed up for further drilling.
Intriguingly, the Rosapenna prospect has remained largely untouched until now, with no modern day drilling recorded in the past 35 years.
The Fairway Shear zone, which hosts the Rosapenna prospect, was first discovered by Meeka in 2022 and is the main controlling structure for the region, running 25 kilometres in a north-south direction.
The zone also encompasses Meeka’s 690,000-ounce Turnberry deposit grading 2g/t gold and the company’s St Anne’s deposit three kilometres further south, containing 40,000 ounces.
Meanwhile, the drill bit has also been hard at work with extension drilling at the company’s Turnberry South deposit, which started open pit mining in June. Standout hits included 2m grading a whopping 19.29g/t gold within a broader intercept of 17m running at 2.94g/t gold from 77m. Another hole jagged 15m grading 2.05 g/t gold, including a 4-metre section going at 4.38g/t gold from 91m depth.
A surface diamond rig is also rolling up to the Central Turnberry open pit, primed to chase extensions that could swell the existing resource ahead of the first underground mining firing up in mid-2026.
Turnberry Central only kicked off open-pit mining earlier this year, but the drive to push underground is already gathering serious pace. Management sees the project sliding neatly into Meeka’s underground operations once its nearby Andy Well underground mine is fully settled, following successful commissioning in September.
Meeka Metals managing director Tim Davidson said: “The gold at Rosapenna highlights the broader growth opportunity available to us within a highly fertile but until now underexplored ~25km belt of Archean greenstones. We are now systematically drilling out this belt and these results support our thesis that there is a lot more gold to be found.”
Taken together, the fresh Rosapenna hits, the solid numbers from Turnberry South and the looming push underground at Turnberry Central all point to a gold company hitting its straps at exactly the right time.
With Andy Well now commissioned and the drill rigs fanning out across a gold-rich belt that has barely felt a modern drill bit in decades, Meeka appears to be opening up a pipeline of opportunities that could keep the Murchison humming for years.
And if Rosapenna is any indication of what still lies hidden along the 25-kilometre Fairway Shear, the company’s exploration story may only just be warming up.
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