DiscovEx Resources Limited announce initial results from drilling activities at the Spartan Prospect, part of an 80:20 joint venture with Gateway Mining Limited. First pass aircore drilling was targeted on the previously generated 1.3km long +50ppb surface gold anomaly with a peak value of 0.54g/t Au. Drilling was undertaken to determine the potential for gold mineralisation within insitu, weathered basement rocks and to determine the extent and distribution of gold within the overlying transported cover. Initial assays have been received from the first 37 holes of the ongoing drill program with an additional 104 holes completed thus far for which assay results are yet to be received. The results returned to date have identified gold mineralisation across multiple horizons, the first being within carbonate rich sandy soils at surface (0-8m), repeating the original surface geochemical anomaly.
Elevated gold results have also been returned from a shallow, quartz gravel (+silcrete) paleochannel at or close to the base of transported material (32-40m) and more significantly, anomalous gold (and copper) values have also been intersected within in-situ bedrock material beneath the paleochannel gold results. These initial positive gold (and copper) results returned from the insitu bedrock beneath and adjacent to an extensive transported gold accumulation is extremely encouraging. This large-scale greenfields target has been generated in an area of no previous exploration and the extent and tenor of gold anomalism at Spartan confirms it as a high potential target. In addition to the drilling at Spartan, infill soil sampling has been competed at the Falcon Prospect, located 5km east of Spartan, with results confirming a 3km long trend of surface gold peaking at 98ppb
Au (0.098g/t Au) as well as defining a new area of anomalous gold at surface, known as the Hercules Prospect. Both the Falcon and Spartan prospect areas are located within the Edjudina Project, approximately 250km north-east of Kalgoorlie, WA.