Alto Metals intersects high-grade gold zone in drilling at Indomitable Camp
Drilling outside of the Sandstone gold resource has intercepted 80m at 1.6g/t gold from 21m, including 10m at 5.2g/t gold from 43m.
Ongoing drilling at the Indomitable Camp within Alto Metals’ (ASX: AME) wholly-owned Sandstone gold project in Western Australia has continued to extend the mineralisation beyond the limits of the current resource.
Reverse circulation drilling at the Indomitable and Indomitable North targets was designed to infill and test extensions between and to the north-west of the Sandstone open-pitable resource, which sits at 635,000 ounces grading 1.6 grams per tonne gold.
Latest results are from 1m photon assays relating to 55 holes for a total 7,508m. Holes were drilled at an average depth of 139m and numerous shallow gold zones were hit.
High-grade zone
Four extensional holes which targeted the area between Indomitable and Indomitable North pit shells intersected shallow, high-grade gold mineralisation and unearthed a thick 80m at 1.6g/t gold from 21m, including a high-grade zone of 10m at 5.2g/t from 43m.
The zone is believed to be one of the highest gram-metre results drilled by Alto at this location.
The Indomitable Camp is currently defined over a 2.5km strike length and sits in a 20km northwest-southeast trending gold corridor which also hosts the Vanguard and Havilah deposits within the Alpha Domain priority area.
Alto managing director Matthew Bowles said drilling has highlighted the extensive mineralisation which lies beyond the existing resource.
Best drilling results
The latest results included highlight intersections of 18m at 0.7g/t gold from 8m; 32m at 1.1g/t gold from 79m, including 6m at 2.1g/t from 87m; 18m at 1.1g/t gold from 47m, including 3m at 2.3g/t from 51m; and 5m at 3.0g/t gold from 129m, including 1m at 9.7g/t from 129m.
Also reported was 12m at 1g/t gold from 128m, including 2m at 2g/t from 138m; 6m at 1.7g/t gold from 50m, including 4m at 2.3g/t from 50m; and 5m at 2.1g/t gold from 7m.
Near surface mineralisation at Indomitable Camp is hosted within the upper part of the weathered profile at the base of the alluvium and appears to be associated with sub-vertical high grade mineralised structures identified at Indomitable, Indomitable North, Tiger Moth and Piper.
Mr Bowles said there is potential to discover additional mineralised structures using the near surface mineralisation as a vector.