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Classic Minerals has pumped up the combined indicated resources for its Lady Ada and Lady Magdalene deposits to establish a new mark of 69,966 ounces of gold at the company's Forrestania project near Southern Cross in Western Australia. Management says its inferred resource for the two projects now shows more than 227,613 gold ounces, bringing the combined indicated and inferred resource to 297,579 ounces.

A granted 21-year mining lease over two gold deposits set to join Classic Minerals' stable of operations will give the company what it says is a bigger play at its Forrestania project area near Southern Cross in Western Australia. The new 1804-hectare lease complements the company's existing Kat Gap mining operation and clears the pathway to an expanded operation.

Classic Minerals will begin trial mining at its Kat Gap project in Western Australia's goldfields as it looks to calculate an ore reserve prior to moving into full-scale gold mining and production. The company says the pit will take about two months to complete, cost about $1.5 million and will target fully-oxidized high-grade ore, representing about half the indicated resource, to about 45m.

Classic Minerals has successfully completed the commissioning of its Kat Gap processing plant in Western Australia's Goldfields region and has declared it will have its first bar of gold doré smelted this month. The company is set to start processing its 6504 tonnes of bulk sample ore at an average head grade of 6.06g/t, using a combined modular-designed “Gekko” and conventional processing plant.

Classic Minerals' Kat Gap processing plant in Western Australia's Wheatbelt region has secured a key endorsement for its efficient approach to gravity gold recovery after an independent evaluation of the company's circuit design. An independent reviewer found that the company's bench and pilot-scale tests indicate its current configuration is well suited to maximise the recovery of gravity-recoverable gold.

Classic Minerals has won approval from the WA Government to spud a second water-bore to help run its “Gekko” processing plant and to suppress dust at its Western Australian Wheatbelt-based Kat Gap gold project. The bore will provide vital operational water supply security as the State's imminent next gold producer gears up to join the production ranks.

WA-focused gold explorer Classic Minerals has received final approval from the state regulator to produce gold from the company's flagship Kat Gap project south of Southern Cross in WA. The company says over the coming months it will move from a pure explorer to gold producer. Classic intends to take a staged mining approach at Kat Gap as it looks to reduce early overhead costs and mitigate risk.

In its bulk sample mining operation, gold developer Classic Minerals mined 1011 ounces of gold from its Kat Gap deposit, 170km south of Southern Cross in WA. The precious metal is currently sitting in its stockpile of 6504 tonnes of ore grading 4.82 g/t gold and will be used to dial in the company's mobile gecko gold plant once it is assembled.

The shallow, gold orebody at Classic Minerals' flagship Kat Gap project has been revealed for the first time. The gold explorer says the ground-breaking exposure is only 7m below the surface and comes from a shallow hole in the floor of the bulk sample mining pit. The company plans to remove the remaining overburden after a three-kilogram sample was crushed and panned yielding fine visible gold.

Classic Minerals has returned a plethora of high-grade gold hits from a significant infill and extensional drilling program at its Kat Gap gold project about 170km south of Southern Cross in WA. Stand-out drill intersections were 3m at 12 g/t gold from 127m including 1m at 17.90 g/t, 2m at 9.45 g/t from 174m including 1m at 17.80 g/t, and 4m at 7.96 g/t from 77m including 1m at 20.90 g/t from 77m.

Classic Minerals has topped up the tank, banking $1.2 million on the back of a successful placement to professional and sophisticated investors, with the funds earmarked for its ongoing exploration and development across the Forrestania greenstone belt in WA. The company received an overwhelming response to the share issue that was three times oversubscribed, with Classic offering a wealth of developing gold projects and a potential near-term move to production.

A potentially lucrative base metals joint venture project between Classic Minerals and Independence Group in the revered Fraser Range nickel province of WA has been quietly bubbling away at the same time as the ASX-listed junior explorer looks to develop its flagship Kat Gap gold project about 170km south of Southern Cross.

Classic Minerals has peeled off a string of high-grade gold hits from a major infill RC drilling campaign at its advanced Kat Gap project about 170km south of Southern Cross in WA. Better results were 15m at 2.97 g/t gold including 1m at 23.20 g/t, 10m at 3.24 g/t including 1m at 18.40 g/t, 4m at 8.97 g/t including 1m at 23.40 g/t, and 2m at 16.57 g/t including 1m at 30.30 g/t.

Classic Minerals continues to go for gold at Kat Gap in WA with sampling pointing to an extensive gold anomaly west of the company's high-grade discovery. Classic has recently completed a detailed auger program west of the Kat Gap resource area, identifying an extensive blind gold target covering more than 900 metres of strike – results from shallow auger holes tip the scales at up to 2,130 ppb gold.

Classic Minerals is barrelling down the road to production at Kat Gap near Southern Cross in Western Australia, with its latest test-work showing exceptional recoveries of gold from simple processing techniques. Test work shows that gravity processing and conventional cyanide leaching recovers up to 96 per cent of the contained gold in the Kat Gap ores, paving the pathway to low cost production.

Classic Minerals looks set to deliver early cashflows from the high-grade Kat Gap gold deposit in WA. The company has flagged the early delivery of its modular Gekko gravity processing plant which is now slated to be on the ground in Perth in second half of August 2020. The modular gold plant looks set to deliver Classic a clever short-cut through the development process and a rapid pathway to early cashflows.

Classic Minerals has taken the plunge in a bid to generate some early cash flows from its Kat Gap project in WA, buying a mobile gravity gold concentration plant for the on-site processing of ore. The high-grade discovery at Kat Gap in the Southern Cross region includes a 1m drill hit going 10 ounces of gold to the tonne.

Classic Minerals has tabled first pass metallurgical numbers from its Kat Gap project near Southern Cross, WA. The test work results show an average gold recovery at Kat Gap of up to 75 per cent in the oxide material using a low-cost gravity separation process. Conventional cyanide leaching of the gravity gold concentrate showed between 95 per cent and 96 per cent recovery from oxide and fresh ore.

Classic Minerals has reported a spectacular high-grade gold drill hit from a new mineralised zone at its Kat Gap deposit in WA. The company's resumed drilling campaign returned an intersection of 4m grading 76.72g/t gold from 79m depth including 1m going a whopping 304g/t gold from 82m or an eye-watering 10 ounces of gold per tonne.

Classic Minerals has fired up the drill rig again at its Kat Gap gold deposit near Southern Cross in WA with the dual aims of infilling its existing 92,856 oz resource and testing for extensions of the deposit. Classic will no doubt be looking to duplicate recent high-grade hits that returned double-digit grades up to a serious two ounces of gold to the tonne.

After raising nearly $1M recently, Classic Minerals has hit the gas on a decent-sized RC drilling program at its Forrestania gold project near Southern Cross having spent the last few months evaluating previous results that saw it book a sizeable resource increase. Classic said the rig will visit the Van Uden West, Matrix and Tangerine Trees prospects, all of which the company says are begging for additional attention.

Classic Minerals managed to squeeze in a few priority RC drill holes at its Kat Gap project near Southern Cross in WA before being impeded by restrictions arising from coronavirus. New results show that gold mineralisation at Kat Gap is still open in all directions and very high grade with latest drill numbers showing 3m grading 62.10g/t gold from 36m, including a single metre grading a whopping 181g/t gold.

Classic Minerals has hit some solid gold drill numbers only 1.2km south and along strike from the main drilling area at its Kat Gap gold prospect where gold-filled quartz veins extend at depth into the granite host rock. The best RC drill result to date returned 8m grading 7.91g/t gold from 60m, including 4m at 13.56/t gold from 60m.

Classic Minerals has returned to its high-grade Kat Gap gold discovery for another round of RC drilling with a view to chasing northerly and southerly extensions of recent drill intercepts that returned as much as 10m at an ounce to the tonne. Up to 3,500m of new RC drill holes are now underway in an attempt to stretch the strike of the deposit from 500m to more than 800m.

Classic Minerals has been busy drilling at its Kat Gap project near Southern Cross in WA, with the latest RC program hitting some high-quality numbers highlighted by 6m @ 11.54g/t gold from 20m and 3m @ 13.18g/t gold from 144m. It looks as if the mineralised system is favourably shallow – and importantly, still open at depth. As the drilling metres increase across Kat Gap, the mineralisation could reach around 900m in strike according to the company.

Classic Minerals has hit the sweet spot with the drill rig at its Kat Gap project, near Southern Cross in WA, with high-grade intercepts such as 3m @ 20.70g/t gold from 39m downhole that includes a bonanza, 1m intersection, going well over an ounce to the tonne gold. As the drilling density increases across Kat Gap, the mineralisation could reach in-excess of 800m in strike.

Classic Minerals has generated additional high-grade gold intersections from drilling at its Kat Gap project near Southern Cross, WA, extending the gold system by another 50m vertically at depth. The program targeted the ore body down-dip, producing exceptional new intercepts including 9m @ 20.94g/t from 123m down-hole, which also indicated the ore zone shallowing with depth.

Clutching an armoury of excellent previous gold drilling results, Classic Minerals is now well and truly blooded and up for the hunt at Kat Gap near Southern Cross. The ASX minnow has kicked off a new drilling campaign aimed at testing down-dip projections of high-grade mineralisation it previously intersected with drilling to focus on the 400 metres of strike to a depth of about 100m, double the average depth of previous holes.

Classic Minerals has generated high-grade gold intersections from drilling at its emerging Kat Gap project near Southern Cross, WA, which have doubled the strike length of the ore system to 400 metres. The program targeted the ore body along strike and produced exceptional, shallow drilling results including 7m @ 24.3g/t from 24m down-hole, 9m @ 15.2g/t gold from 22m and 10m @ 8.2g/t from 7m in separate holes.

Classic Minerals has recommenced drilling at its emerging Kat Gap gold project near Southern Cross, WA, where a series of exploratory programs last year unearthed shallow, high-grade gold mineralisation at a prospective rock contact. The short campaign will target strike and up-dip extensions of the defined mineralisation, which produced results up to 10m @ 30.78g/t gold from 28m down-hole and 8m @ 19.05g/t gold from 32m down-hole.

Classic Minerals has completed an earn-in and JV agreement worth up to $4.55m to divest its Fraser Range nickel-copper project in WA to base metals miner Independence Group. Classic will now concentrate its exploration at the emerging Kat Gap gold project located south of Southern Cross, WA, where recent drilling returned impressive results up to 8m @ 19.1g/t gold from 32m down-hole.

Classic Minerals has narrowed its focus to the very prospective Forrestania gold project near Southern Cross in WA, which includes the emerging, high-grade Kat Gap project. The company is in discussions with regard to financing for an exploration program to better delineate and potentially increase the size of the Kat Gap project. It has also flagged its intention to divest its non-core assets.

Classic Minerals has exercised an option to fully acquire two exploration licences over the prospective Kat Gap gold project at the southern end of its under-explored Forrestania gold project, near Southern Cross in WA. Drilling programs for Kat Gap will kick off later this month, to follow up on existing shallow, high-grade results and to confirm the width and tenor of historical drilling.

Classic Minerals' latest drilling program near Southern Cross in WA has continued to deliver with multiple intersections of shallow, narrow, high grade gold mineralisation being unearthed at the emerging Kat Gap prospect. Better results included 3m @ 38.33g/t gold from 21m down-hole, including a metre at 111g/t gold from 22m deep and 5m @ 5.61g/t gold from only 6m down-hole which included 1m @ 12g/t gold from 8m.

Classic Minerals latest drill program near Southern Cross has delivered in spades with a spectacular 10m drill intersection going nearly an ounce to the tonne gold from just 28m deep at the rapidly advancing Kat Gap prospect. The new Kat Gap drill results included a 2m section grading a whopping 116.1g/t gold from 31m and the Lady Lila prospect also delivered 6m @ 9.57g/t gold from 26m down-hole.

Classic Minerals has implemented an exploration target review of its Fraser Range nickel-copper-cobalt project, located 45km northeast of the famed Nova-Bollinger deposit and less than 10km north of the Creasy Group's very promising new Silver Knight find in the Fraser Range of W.A. The focus will be on nickel-copper mineralisation at the Mammoth prospect and copper mineralisation at the Alpha prospect, discovered by Classic in 2013.

Classic Minerals has produced more high grade drilling results from exploration at its Kat Gap and Lady Magdalene gold prospects, near Southern Cross in W.A. A new zone of gold hosted in granite was outlined at Kat Gap and returned results up to 8m @ 7.14g/t gold from 82m down-hole and it is open along strike. The company also reported a result of 0.23% lithium oxide from pegmatite sampling.

Classic Minerals has teamed up with CSIRO to study the potential correlation of large tree sizes to major gold deposits at the Forrestania Gold Project in Western Australia's Goldfields region. The Australian Government's Innovation Connections grant and CSIRO will fund the majority of the six month project that could allow rapid generation of new targets without ground disturbing exploration in the future.

Classic Minerals is back in the field at Forrestania near Southern Cross with lots of exciting gold targets about to be drill tested. The company has kicked off a 3,000 metre RC drill program that will target high grade cross-cutting gold lodes at the Lady Magdalene deposit and define resource extensions for the Kap Gap, Lady Lila and the newly discovered Van Uden West prospect.

Classic Minerals has announced a new gold discovery at the Van Uden West prospect at its Forrestania gold project, south of Southern Cross. The best result of 12m @ 5.75g/t gold from 59m down-hole is open along strike and down-dip. High grade results were also reported from both the Kat Gap and Lady Lila prospects in exploration that confirmed the orientation of the gold mineralisation.