Infinity Mining plans to dig deeper for gold at its Victor Bore project in the Central Goldfields after new drill results highlighted an 8m hit at 3.46 grams per tonne gold from 56m, including 1m going a solid 21.86g/t gold from 57m.
Just last month, the company completed 37 RC drill holes for 3851m at five historical gold mine prospects at Victor Bore, Coppermine, Barlow’s Gully, Camel and Great Northern on its ground near the Western Australian Goldfields town of Leonora.
A total of 13 of the 16 holes drilled at Victor Bore returned anomalous results of more than 1g/t gold with additional highlights showing a 3m hit grading 2.39g/t gold from 72m, including 1m at 6.82g/t gold from 72m.
Another hole returned assays of 4m at 2.65g/t gold from 43m, including a 2m section going 4.84g/t gold. The drill campaign was designed to test geochemical, geophysical and structural targets identified last year from field work, including a rock-chip sampling program that returned assays of up to 28.4g/t gold.
Infinity believes gold mineralisation at Victor Bore occurs along a north-east trending structure with a strike length of about 400m, with the prospect still open at depth.
Assays from the first five RC drill holes at Victor Bore returned results including 7m at 1.96 g/t gold from 32m and 6m going 1.4g/t gold from 25m, with the best individual 1m intersections reading a respective 8.67g/t gold from 34m and 7.33g/t from 29m.
Infinity Mining chief executive officer Joe Groot said: “The first phase of drilling at Victor Bore has returned some excellent results, with 13 of the 16 holes returning anomalous assays over 1 g/t Au, with maximum 1 m assay of 21.86 g/t Au in hole VB23RC010. We are excited to see what lies at depth below this 400m long mineralised zone, with further drilling planned later this year.”
Victor Bore adjoins Northern Star’s Kailis gold mine and sits less than 10km from the Leonora townsite. Gold mineralisation appears similar to Kailis as it is present in multiple narrow quartz-carbonate veins within a broader mineralised shear zone.
Infinity looks to be working from a blank canvas as there are no available drill records for Victor Bore and there has been no modern exploration prior to the company conducting magnetic imagery and rock-chip sampling last year. Its magnetic imagery identified possible structures parallel to the known north-northeast trending historic gold workings.
While rock-chip results returned up to 28.4g/t gold at Victor Bore, Infinity’s recent aerial geophysics also identified untested structures that appear to be a continuation of the same geological structure as the adjacent Kallis Gold Mine, just 1.5km to the south of its tenements.
Victor Bore is part of Infinity’s 13.8 square kilometre Central Goldfields portfolio centred around Leonora. Local gold deposits include the multi-million-ounce Sons of Gwalia, King of the Hills, Tarmoola and Thunderbox. The company’s ground includes two mining leases, seven prospecting licences and one exploration licence.
With multi-element assays testing for volcanic-hosted massive sulphide base metal deposits still pending and a deeper drilling program already scheduled for later this year, the market will be keeping a close eye on what Infinity can unearth at its Central Goldfields projects.
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By Michael Philipps
