BMG bolsters regional prospects at WA gold project

BMG Resources has boosted the regional prospects of its Abercromby gold project in the north-eastern Goldfields region of WA after assay results from more than 10,000m of an air-core drilling program underlined its broader potential.

According to the company, a raft of solid hits from drilling across the venture's tenements has identified a sequence of compelling anomalies and opened up a string of new target areas.

The exploration was launched about three months ago south of the venture’s high-grade Capital prospect and aimed at evaluating the strike potential between the area and the previously discovered Barrack and Archer prospects.

BMG used the campaign to test a laundry list of targets identified through a previously run sub-audio magnetics ,or ‘SAM’ survey across an area with little previous drilling.

Management says it was encouraged to expand the company’s work at Abercromby to accommodate several additional greenfield zones after uncovering 16 areas with highly anomalous gold content across 14 separate holes.

Some of the better results from the probe include a 4m strike going 3.58 grams per tonne gold from 52m from a hole sunk at the Archer prospect. Curiously, BMG says the intersection is interpretated to be a southern extension of the Abercromby shear, that remains open for around 1.4 kilometres.

Results from another hole include a 4m hit going 1.19 g/t gold from 16m. The company says the result has underlined a 1.6km target zone that boasts direct continuity from a high-grade gold lode west of the capital prospect.

The company argues a third strike of 4m going 1.46 g/t gold from 44m at its nearby Barrack prospect has reinforced a belief the area could host additional high-grade mineralisation.

Interestingly, data from BMG shows the company made more than a dozen additional 4m intercepts with grades above 200 parts per million gold.

Given that work at the operation has to-date been characterised by 80 to 120m spaced holes, BMG believes its recent results are suggestive it could have a catalogue of supplementary gold at Abercromby.

The explorer is now looking to get its hands on an air-core rig to start a follow-up campaign at its Capital South, Archer and Barrack prospects and expects to commence in around six weeks.

In addition, the company says it is aiming to redrill a diamond hole previously abandoned due to technical issues in an earlier program. The failed probe was aimed at testing the southern extension of the west lode at Abercromby.

BMG says it could have a diamond rig at the ground as early as this month.

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