Blaze Minerals Limited announced the commencement of drilling at its Earaheedy Basin Project in late July, following receipt of all required approvals. To date a total of twelve holes for 1,627 metres have been drilling within E69/3815 on a wide spaced nominal drill pattern, targeting the prospective stratigraphy which hosts the adjacent Rumble Resources Limited, Sweetwater, Chinook, Tonka and Navajoh discoveries, located on the unconformity contact zone between the Frere and Yelma formations, part of the Earaheedy Basin prospective stratigraphy. Highly anomalous portable XRF (pXRF) base metal readings have been recorded in mineralised bedrock in 5 out of the 12 holes drilled within the contact unconformity zone between the Frere and Yelma formations. The following results obtained via portable X-Ray Fluorescence ("XRF") determination should be considered preliminary and subject to confirmation by subsequent geochemical analysis, with samples due to be received by the laboratory in the coming few days. The geochemical analysis results may vary from those obtained from XRF.
BERC8 returned pXRF readings of 9m @ 1.69% zinc,and 0.07% lead, within an overall intersection of 21m @ 0.68% zinc and 0.11% lead from 88109
metres. BERC6 returned pXRF readings of 21m @ 0.23% zinc,and 0.12% lead from 2748 metres. BERC6 returned pXRF readings of 21m @ 0.23% zinc,and 0.12% lead from 5868 metres. BERC7 returned pXRF readings of 10m @ 0.13% zinc,and 0.07% Lead from 5868 metres. BERC10A returned pXRF readings of 12m @ 0.07% zinc, and 0.19% lead from 88100 metres. BERC11 returned pXRF readings of 6m @ 1.27% zinc, and 0.18% lead, within an overall intersection of 22m @ 0.50% zinc and 0.10% lead from 113135 metres. The first five holes (BERC1 BERC5) were designed to test the potential of the Iroquois carbonate dolomite formation within Blaze Mineral tenement E69/3815 with the contact zone tested with no anomalous results returned. The drilling (BERC6 BERC11) then moved to the east to evaluate and test for the Frere/Yelma unconformity which was successfully intersected in all holes reaching target depth. A number of areas were covered by up to fifty metres of Tertiary clays and colluvium which masks large portions of potential mineralisation within the tenement. The mineralised zones were characterised by quartz veining, sulphide accumulations (pyrite, galena very fine grained sphalerite) in fresh rock and in the oxide zones, gossanous ferruginous rocks.