Astral Resources NL advise that it has recommenced drilling at the 100%-owned Feysville Gold Project (Feysville or Project), located 14km south of Kalgoorlie. Feysville is located within the north, north-west trending Norseman - Wiluna Greenstone Belt, within the Kambalda Domain of the Archean Yilgarn Craton. Significant gold and nickel mineralisation occurs throughout the belt, including world-class deposits such as Northern Star's Golden Mile Super Pit in Kalgoorlie and Gold Fields' St Ives Gold Mine south of Kambalda. Locally, Feysville has been interpreted to contain upthrust ultramafics, emplaced within a sequence of volcanic sediments, granitic intrusions, mafic basalts, gabbro and andesite. The DD program that commenced late in 2022 was the first drilling conducted at Feysville in over three years. Astral has instead over this period focussed its technical and financial resources on a very successful exploration effort at Mandilla, culminating in the delivery of four successive Mineral Resource Estimates which have seen the Mandilla MRE increase to 30Mt at 1.1g/t Au for 1.03Moz. Meanwhile, at Feysville, Astral has completed geophysical surveys, compiled and reviewed an extensive geological database of historic information, completed field mapping, and undertaken bottom-of-hole relogging and geochemical analysis of historical drilling. This work has provided the Company with an improved platform to seek to understand the controls on mineralisation and the identification of new and attractive drill targets. Accordingly, the geological team recently returning to the field at Feysville with both RC and DD programs currently underway. The Think Big Deposit hosts a significant supergene enriched Indicated Mineral Resource Estimate of 279kt at 2.2g/t Au for 20.1koz. The supergene gold mineralisation is associated with shallow gossan styled deposits. This program of drilling is targeting fresh rock shear-related mineralisation beneath the base of oxidation, with previous intersections including: 6m at 4.16g/t Au from 110.8m in FDH009; 5m at 2.19g/t Au from 96m, 10m at 3.49g/t Au from 105m and 2m at 3.17g/t Au from 137m in FRC113; 4m at 2.18g/t Au from 137m, 11m at 3.18g/t Au from 173m and 1m at 5.58g/t Au from 216m in
FRCD016; 6m at 2.8g/t Au from 132m in FRC085; and 0.7m at 7.25g/t Au from 141.6m in FDH005. The current program involves two DD holes and four RC holes. These holes are located to achieve a 40m x 40m spacing adjacent to previous high-grade intersections. Drilling is targeting the interaction between the Ethereal north-west/south-east trending shear with the north-east offsetting faults, which appears to have an influence on high-grade fresh rock mineralisation in this area. The drilling at Ethereal is designed to follow up historical gold intersections including: 9m at 9.98g/t Au from 109m in FEC413; 6m at 3.98g/t Au from 60m in FER274; 4m at 2.26g/t Au from 29m in FEC006; 11m at 1.47g/t Au from 48m in FEC005; and 5.55m at 3.50g/t Au from 78.45m in FEC706. Mineralisation appears to be related to the western porphyry contact and the eastern sheared contact. Field observations suggest south-west dipping shear zones and stratigraphy; however, previous drilling was completed in a north-south orientation which is oblique and down-dip to the interpreted main trends of mineralisation. New drilling is designed on a more appropriate 045 azimuth. The current program involves two DD and four RC holes which are designed to investigate interpreted structures and contacts identified from structural observations and previous drillhole logging.