Meeka records cracking WA gold hits

ASX-listed junior Meeka Gold has tabled a 24 metre drill intersection grading 4.81 grams per tonne gold from 68m downhole, with a 4m internal section going a cracking 20.3 g/t gold at its St Anne’s gold prospect within the company’s Murchison gold project in WA. Importantly, no resource estimate has ever been defined at St Anne’s, leaving huge potential with another phase of drilling to follow-up soon.

Other notable results from recent drilling at St Anne’s include 36m grading 1.02 g/t gold from 24m downhole with an 8m internal section going 2.35 g/t gold in addition to an 8m drill hit that gave up 2.66 g/t gold from 104m downhole with an internal metre coming in at 16.45 g/t gold.

Results received only account for six of the eight holes drilled at St Anne’s during the phase 2 program.

Remarkable results from the first phase of drilling that occurred along strike from the recent phase 2 include 3m grading 13.82 g/t gold from 103m downhole, 20m going 2.4 g/t gold from 57m and 15m grading 1.5 g/t gold from 108m downhole.

St Anne’s is located just 3.5 kilometres south of the company’s 100 per cent owned Turnberry deposit that hosts a 610,000 ounce gold resource.

Mineralisation at St Anne’s occurs in a very similar geological environment to Turnberry according to the company. Gold mineralisation has been recorded in quartz veining with pyrite alteration and occurs on the contact between a mafic dolerite and sedimentary shales.

The strike length of mineralisation at St Anne’s has been identified over 500m and remains open to both the north and south.

Meeka’s flagship Murchison gold project has a combined 343 square kilometre landholding in the Murchison Goldfields that houses a total mineral resource of 1.1 million ounces of gold across the project.

Additionally, the company is actively exploring the gold potential of its Circle Valley gold project in southern WA that is situated within the Albany Fraser mobile belt that also hosts the enormous Tropicana gold mine.

High-grade, shallow mineralisation at St Anne’s will come as welcome news to Meeka as no resource estimate has ever been calculated for the prospect allowing ample opportunity to add more gold ounces to its already burgeoning 1.1 million ounce resource portfolio.

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