logo
powered-by-purple
Navigation
logo powered-by-purple
  • Insight
    • Diggers and dealers
    • Insights
  • Companies
    • A&O Sherman
    • Accelerate Resources
    • AOG Energy
    • Artemis Resources
    • AVESS Energy
    • BMG Resources
    • ChemX Materials
    • Core Lithium
    • Darktrace
    • Deterra Royalties
    • Dreadnought
    • Eclipse Metals
    • Energy Exchange Australia
    • Energy Metals
    • FBR
    • Finbar
    • Gold Road Resources
    • Infinite Green
    • Inside Diggers and Dealers
    • Insight
    • Jupiter Mines
    • K+S Salt
    • Lykos Metals
    • Magnetite Mines
    • Mineral Resources
    • NextOre
    • Northern Minerals
    • Northern Star
    • NRW Holdings
    • Osteopore
    • Paydirt
    • Rox Resources
    • Sandfire
    • St George Mining
    • Sundance Resources
    • VRX Silica
    • Vysarn
    • Westgold Resources
    • Wind with Purpose
  • Industries
    • Broking Firm
    • Clean energy
    • Cobalt
    • Copper
    • Gold
    • Graphite
    • Insight
    • Iron ore
    • Lithium
    • Manganese
    • Mining Services
    • Nickel
    • Oil & Gas
    • Property
    • Rare Earths
    • Royalties
    • Silica Sand
    • Technology
    • Uranium
    • Water services
    • Zinc
  • Video
  • About
  • Contact
  • Subscribe

Home / Copper / 2020 exploration begins with more strong results: St George Mining

St George Mining

  • ASX: SGQ
    • Cu
    • Ni

2020 exploration begins with more strong results: St George Mining

  • 28 January

Growth-focused Western Australian nickel company St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has announced further strong exploration results from ongoing work at its flagship Mt Alexander nickel-copper sulphide project, located in the north-eastern Goldfields.


HIGHLIGHTS

  • New electromagnetic (EM) conductors identified at Fish Hook Prospect by moving loop electromagnetic (MLEM) survey:

    • High temperature SQUID MLEM survey has resumed after the Christmas break and identified two high priority EM anomalies at the Fish Hook Prospect

    • Both EM anomalies are coincident with magnetic anomalies and interpreted to be bedrock conductors with potential to represent nickel-copper sulphide mineralisation

    • The largest of the two conductors is seen over 3 survey lines (at 200m spacing) and has a strike length of more than 500m

  • Multi-rig drilling programmes planned for 2020:

    • Resource definition of the shallow highgrade deposits at the Cathedrals Belt will begin with reverse circulation (RC) drilling

    • Diamond drilling will continue to be used for testing of new EM conductors and deeper nickel-copper sulphide targets

    • Drill rigs will arrive at site shortly once new Programmes of Work are approved by the Department of Mines and modelling of the new EM conductors is completed

  • Metallurgical testwork underway:

    • Test work on massive and disseminated nickel-copper sulphides from metallurgical hole MAD177 is underway

    • Focus on producing separate nickel and copper concentrates plus maximising the recovery of gold and PGEs – with palladium around 80% of PGEs assayed to date

John Prineas, St George Mining’s Executive Chairman, said: “Initial results from the EM survey at the unexplored Fish Hook Prospect are extremely encouraging with new conductors identified in a prospective geological setting.

“This is a great start to the 2020 field season and we are excited at the potential for more exploration success as the work programmes progress.

“Drill hole MAD177 is a reminder of the remarkable mineralisation at the Cathedrals Belt with high grades of nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group metals – predominantly palladium.

“We are keenly awaiting the report on the latest metallurgical test work, which we believe will further confirm the exceptional value of our mineralisation and its potential to be commercialised.

“We believe the discoveries to date may only be a fraction of the mineralisation in the high-grade mineral system at Mt Alexander.

“We will continue our systematic exploration in 2020 to test the potential for more deposits down-plunge of the shallow mineralisation and also along strike to the east and west.”

View full announcement

Peter Klinger

  • Contact

Share

  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Most Read

  • 28 February

Rox appoints Phill Wilding as MD & CEO to focus on delivering Youanmi

  • ASX: RXL
    • Au
  • 28 March

Wind with Purpose strikes deal with Barrington Energy & Gnaala Karla Booja

  • WWP
    • Clean energy
  • 25 November

NRW unit Action Drill & Blast awarded Talison Lithium contract

    • Mining Services

Related

  • 29 April

Sandfire provides March quarter activities report

    • Cu
  • Insight
  • 18 March

State Cabinet reshaped to mirror future of Western Australia’s economy

    • II
    • Broking Firm
  • 8 January

Sandfire announces December 2024 quarterly results advisory

    • Cu
  • 19 December

Sandfire reports further high-grade copper intercepts at Black Butte project, US

    • Cu

NEWSLETTER

Get news, as it happens

Sign up to receive our weekly roundup, and releases of interest, as they happen.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
logo

Investor Insight, powered by Purple, delivers the stories that matter to the people who matter – across your preferred communications platform.

From breaking news to analysis, opportunities and thought leadership, Investor Insight is your window into some of Australia’s most exciting listed and non-listed companies.

  • Insight
    • Diggers and dealers
    • Insights
  • Companies
    • A&O Sherman
    • Accelerate Resources
    • AOG Energy
    • Artemis Resources
    • AVESS Energy
    • BMG Resources
    • ChemX Materials
    • Core Lithium
    • Darktrace
    • Deterra Royalties
    • Dreadnought
    • Eclipse Metals
    • Energy Exchange Australia
    • Energy Metals
    • FBR
    • Finbar
    • Gold Road Resources
    • Infinite Green
    • Inside Diggers and Dealers
    • Insight
    • Jupiter Mines
    • K+S Salt
    • Lykos Metals
    • Magnetite Mines
    • Mineral Resources
    • NextOre
    • Northern Minerals
    • Northern Star
    • NRW Holdings
    • Osteopore
    • Paydirt
    • Rox Resources
    • Sandfire
    • St George Mining
    • Sundance Resources
    • VRX Silica
    • Vysarn
    • Westgold Resources
    • Wind with Purpose
  • Industries
    • Broking Firm
    • Clean energy
    • Cobalt
    • Copper
    • Gold
    • Graphite
    • Insight
    • Iron ore
    • Lithium
    • Manganese
    • Mining Services
    • Nickel
    • Oil & Gas
    • Property
    • Rare Earths
    • Royalties
    • Silica Sand
    • Technology
    • Uranium
    • Water services
    • Zinc
  • Video
powered-by-purple
  • About
  • Contact
  • Subscribe
  • Purple
  • Privacy Policy
  • Disclaimer

Copyright 2025 Purple