Highlights:
Never Never Gold Deposit – key high-grade gold deposit – 0.95Moz @ 5.74g/t – growing!
“Pepper” Gold Prospect – recent high-grade discovery adjacent to Never Never – growing!
West Winds Gold Prospect – high-grade broad and strike extensive mineralised shoot – growing!
Exploration Drill Drive – Update
This release contains updated assay information from recent surface drilling targeting the high-grade Never Never Gold Deposit, the immediately adjacent and growing Pepper gold prospect and the nearby West Winds gold prospect. This release also contains assays from early-stage ongoing surface exploration drilling north of Never Never.
Management Comment
Spartan Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Simon Lawson, said: “Our recent exploration updates show that our aggressive drilling strategy is continuing to deliver on its key objectives – growing our high-grade resource inventory while at the same time making new high-grade discoveries.
“We keep applying drill pressure to good geology – and the results continue to demonstrate the enormous potential of the broader Gilbey’s mineral system, which now contains multiple high-grade, steeply plunging deposits and emerging prospects along an 800m corridor running from north to south.
“The latest results also reinforce the compelling logic behind the proposed development of our underground exploration drill drive. This critical piece of infrastructure will be another game-changer for the Spartan team as it will significantly increase our resource growth and future reserve generation efforts by using more cost effective, more accurate and faster underground drilling methods from platforms located closer to our existing high-grade targets.
“The drill drive allows us to optimise our drilling strategy in a way that is simply unachievable from surface, while also unlocking the very real potential to make new high-grade discoveries from underground platforms where you are literally situated inside the geology.
“We are situating the drill drive in the hanging-wall of the Gilbey’s mineralised sequence to optimise the geotechnical advantages of the very competent gabbro wallrock and to optimise the drilling angles and stand-off distance to all of our main high-grade targets. Lastly, we are developing the exploration drill drive at standard underground development dimensions in order to maximise the value of the sunk capital by future-proofing its inclusion in any potential mining scenarios.
“In the two years since discovery, we have built a Mineral Resource of almost 1 million high-grade ounces at Never Never, and we can clearly see potential growth beyond 1,000m.
“The newly discovered Pepper gold prospect, situated less than 100m along-strike from Never Never, is showing better grades at depth, and we are also beginning to see some of the best high-grade intercepts to date as we drill deeper at both Four Pillars and West Winds. This trend of improving grades at depth is exactly what we saw at Never Never.
“Fresh from our recent $80 million equity raise, Spartan is in a position of unparalleled strength as we move ahead with our multi-pronged strategy to unlock the potential of the Dalgaranga Gold Project.
“Surface drilling is continuing with four rigs, preparatory work is underway for the start of the exploration decline and mine development study work is in full flight.
“The stage is well and truly set for what is shaping up to be an extremely busy and exciting 6-12 months as we deliver further resource growth, mine studies and establish the underground infrastructure required to bring this outstanding asset into production.”
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