Strickland expands WA gold hunt for fresh intrusive-related targets
Strickland Metals has turned up the heat at its Yandal gold project in Western Australia's northern Goldfields by expanding a key gravity survey to chase down a string of new intrusion-related gold (IRG) targets across a juicy 19-kilometre stretch of prospective ground.
The move follows the company's recent discovery of IRG-style mineralisation near its 109,000-ounce Dusk 'til Dawn gold find and could set the stage for a new pipeline of high-impact drill targets.
The discovery of a new style of gold-bearing structure came in March after the company spent several months looking over the data from geochemical and geophysical work.
The analysis confirmed two sizeable, mineralised corridors - rich in gold, molybdenum, copper, bismuth and tellurium—stretching across a 7.5km strike previously only lightly explored. Re-logging of historical drill chips revealed key alteration minerals, such as chlorite, K-feldspar and epidote, hinting at strong hydrothermal activity.
'Strickland has been assessing the potential for additional IRG lookalike targets within its Yandal portfolio.'
Strickland Metals executive technical director Richard Pugh
Expert interpretations by geochemist Nigel Brand and geophysicist Barry Bourne suggest the scale and chemistry of the system indicate significant fluid flow, pointing to the presence of a large gold system.
Armed with the latest information, Strickland planned a new geophysical survey, with tight 50-metre line spacings, across 9km of the structural corridor immediately to the south of the Dusk 'til Dawn camp.
An original high-resolution survey focused on a 10km stretch further south and running north of the company's Horse Well camp. The recent work has, therefore, filled the gap between the two camps, bringing the total strike length under investigation to a hefty 19km.
The newly targeted ground sits in a prime position and bears all the hallmarks of the intrusion-related gold (IRG) system already unearthed at Dusk 'til Dawn. It features the same type of low-density gravity anomalies that led to earlier successes, plus a scattering of historic gold hits that suggest there may be much more lurking just below surface.
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