Emerging WA nickel company St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has announced that drilling at the Mt Alexander Project near Leonora has continued to intersect nickel-copper sulphides across the 4.5 kilometre strike of the Cathedrals Belt. Further drilling has been completed at each of the three prospect areas on the Cathedrals Belt – Stricklands, Investigators and Cathedrals – with additional high-grade nickel-copper sulphides intersected.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Drill programme at Mt Alexander intersects further thick zones of nickel-copper sulphide mineralisation across the 4.5km strike of the Cathedrals Belt
- Downhole electromagnetic (DHEM) surveys of completed drill holes have identified multiple off-hole EM conductors at Stricklands and Investigators for follow-up testing
- Drilling of new DHEM conductors at Stricklands has confirmed further massive nickelcopper sulphides
Emerging West Australian nickel company St George Mining Limited (ASX: SGQ) (“St George” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that drilling at the Mt Alexander Project, located near Leonora in the north-eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, has continued to intersect nickel-copper sulphides across the 4.5km strike of the Cathedrals Belt.
Further drilling has been completed at each of the three prospect areas on the Cathedrals Belt – Stricklands, Investigators and Cathedrals – with additional high-grade nickel-copper sulphides intersected.
John Prineas, St George Mining’s Executive Chairman, said:
“The drilling results at Mt Alexander are very exciting. Our high success rate in testing EM targets along the Cathedrals Belt has continued with all EM targets drilled being confirmed as nickel-copper sulphides.
“Perhaps more significantly, we have also intersected additional thick massive sulphides at Stricklands in an area where previous ground-based EM surveys did not identify any conductors. This provides encouragement that the extent of mineralisation at Stricklands could be greater than indicated by the surface EM surveys.
“At Investigators, the first deep drilling of additional SAMSON EM anomalies has resulted in several strong off-hole DHEM conductors being detected for follow-up testing.
“These targets include a very strong conductor modelled with conductivity of 67,000 Siemens and located down-dip from the best intersection to date of massive nickel-copper sulphides at Investigators.”
Stricklands Prospect:
At the Stricklands Prospect, drilling is focused on identifying the extent of mineralisation along the Stricklands ultramafic, which is interpreted to have a strike of approximately 400m in an east-northeast orientation. Drilling in late 2017 confirmed the presence of thick nickel-copper sulphides at Stricklands with MAD71 intersecting 17.45m @ 3.01% Ni, 1.31% Cu, 0.13% Co and 1.68g/t total PGEs from 37.45m.
Drill hole MAD96 was completed earlier in the current drill programme about 220m north-east of MAD71. MAD96 did not intersect any sulphide mineralisation. However, a DHEM survey in MAD96 identified a strong off-hole EM conductor approximately 20m to the south-west of MAD96.
