Meeka hits visible gold mineralisation at Murchison project

Meeka Metals has continued its run of solid hits at its Murchison gold project including a 4m intercept returning a high-grade result of more than two ounces to the tonne at the company’s St Anne’s prospect.

The 4m section recorded an outstanding 87.5 grams per tonne from 172m with visible gold in the assay and was intercepted 100m below gold oxide results that Meeka reported in August this year.

Previous drilling at the prospect returned impressive results highlighted by 32m at 16.07 g/t gold from 48m including 16m going 28.59 g/t. Additional assays from drilling in August showed a 20m intercept going 20.74 g/t gold from 48m including 16m at 24.86 g/t.

The latest assays come from the company’s current RC drilling campaign targeting mineralisation at Murchison below the shear zone that runs around 100m to 150m beneath the surface. Additional results from the current program include 8m at 1.22 g/t gold from 124m and 4m going 1.54 g/t from 128m.

Meeka is also in the middle of a diamond drilling campaign at Murchison with five holes completed that have all intersected the targeted shear zone. Assays from the diamond drill program are expected before the end of the year.

Meeka Metals Managing Director, Tim Davidson said: “The intersection of high-grade gold in fresh rock below the oxide horizon points to the tenor of this system. In addition to these RC results, all five diamond drill holes completed to date have intersected the shear zone with intervals of sulphides and quartz marking the lode position.”

Previous air-core drilling at St Anne’s recorded positive results including 8m at 11.78 grams per tonne gold inside of a larger 24m parcel running 4.73 g/t gold from 52m. A further 8m at 11.07g/t gold was recorded within a 36m interval going 3.61 g/t gold from 44m. Additional results include 20m grading 1.66 g/t gold from 36m, 16m at 1.43g/t gold from 92m and 8m with 3.05g/t gold from a depth of 104m.

The company’s Murchison gold project already lays claim to a 1.1 million ounce resource and is strategically positioned next to a 1.8 million tonne per annum gold mill and a key highway.

Drilling at St Anne’s has been designed to test the fertile gold shear corridor extending south from the company’s Turnberry deposit that has a mineral resource of 11.3 million tonnes grading 1.7 g/t for 610,000 ounces of gold. Meeka says mineralisation at the expanding prospect occurs in a very similar geological setting to Turnberry.

Meeka is now working towards a prefeasibility study at Murchison along with establishing a maiden mineral resource at St Anne’s that is expected before the end of the year.

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