from 16th June....24 Jul 2021 14:02
Empire Metals Limited, the AIM-quoted resource exploration and development company, is pleased to announce the commencement of exploration activities covering the four exploration licences which comprise the Central Menzies Gold project ('Central Menzies' or the 'Project'), including verification of historical reverse circulation ("RC") drilling and the acquisition of airborne geophysical survey data.
Highlights:
· Central Menzies lies within a classic granite-greenstone belt, with mineralisation associated with the regional Menzies Shear Zone. Gold-bearing quartz veins occur along the contact between basalts and sediments.
· A series of structurally controlled high-grade gold deposits have been historically mined and display extensive exploration potential for high-grade extensions.
· The locality is under-explored and is directly south along strike of the 15km-long First Hit - Yunndaga line of workings which had a total metal inventory of 1.1Moz of gold.
· Historically, 777m of reverse circulation drilling has been completed at the property by the current owner, Mel Dalla-Costa, with several high-grade intercepts reported:
· MCD02: 5m @ 19.59 g/t Au from 30 metres
· MCD04: 3m @ 5.15 g/t Au from 35 metres
· MCD10: 2m @ 5.51 g/t Au from 30 metres
· MCD11: 1m @ 14.18 g/t Au from 48 metres
· Empire has purchased close-spaced airborne magnetic and radiometric data over the four exploration licences comprising the Project from Kingwest Resources Ltd which commissioned an airborne geophysical survey across the adjacent tenements in Q4 2019.
Shaun Bunn, Managing Director, said: "We have now commenced our exploration campaign for the Central Menzies Gold Project and are currently compiling a robust geological database, utilising both historical reports and the results from the recent RC drilling programme carried out by the owner of the tenements, Mel Dalla-Costa. In addition, we have also been able to purchase recent aeromagnetic and radiometric survey data from Kingwest Resources Ltd, our immediate northern neighbour, which will greatly assist us in building a detailed geophysical map of our licence area and help fast track our proposed drilling campaign.
"As previously announced, we are continuing to build momentum at our Eclipse Gold Project, where the focus now is on bringing the Eclipse resource into JORC compliance ahead of mine optimisation and planning and evaluating the resource potential at the adjacent Jack's Dream deposit. It is pleasing to note that Empire remains in a strong financial position given the recent sale of its 50% holding in Georgian Copper & Gold JSC and receipt of the cash consideration totalling US$3.3 million."
Soooooo.... JORC compliant resource at Eclipse, new intercepts at Jack's Dream and progress at Central Menzies... all will cash in the bank and POG consolidating at $1800 before....... boom
Q3 and Q4 here have a bright shiny feel
Take the opportunity ;-)