- 01Three holes return wide, shallow gold at Brilliant.
- 02Best: 18.65m at 1.86g/t; hole four assays pending.
- 03Results advance maiden resource estimate plans.
Flynn Gold (ASX: FG1) has announced strong gold assays from the first round of resource drilling at the Brilliant prospect within its flagship Golden Ridge project in northeast Tasmania.
The company reported wide intervals of shallow mineralisation associated with sheeted quartz vein zones in the first three of five diamond holes for a total 704.2 metres designed to test beneath and around historical trenches.
Best intercepts were 18.65m at 1.86 grams per tonne gold from 59.35m including 3.05m at 4.65g/t, 20.35m at 1.29g/t gold from 29m including 3.85m at 3.12g/t, and 14.8m at 1.26g/t gold from 20.2m including 1.3m at 7.7g/t.
Assays are pending for a fourth hole that also intersected visual mineralisation associated with sheeted quartz vein zones, down-dip of the first hole.
Brilliant forms part of Flynn’s accelerated project development pathway strategy for Golden Ridge and is the first exploration target prospect to be advanced toward a maiden mineral resource estimate.
Intrusion-Related Gold System
Gold mineralisation at Golden Ridge is interpreted as an intrusion-related gold system defined by a 9km zone of gold anomalism coincident with the southern intrusive contact of the Golden Ridge Granodiorite with hornfelsed Mathinna Group metasediments.
Brilliant is the first exploration target prospect to be advanced toward a maiden mineral resource estimate, with planning underway for resource definition drilling at the nearby Trafalgar prospect.
Flynn also intends to conduct a larger step-out campaign to test a highly prospective zone between the two.
Historical drilling at Brilliant identified a significant gold occurrence associated with sheeted and stockwork over approximately 200m of strike length, up to 40m wide, and extending to a depth of over 200m.
Redefined Geological Model
Managing director Neil Marston said the results had redefined the company’s understanding of the Brilliant geological model.
“Much of the historical drilling was oriented from the north-western side of the deposit, effectively drilling sub-parallel to the mineralised zone,” he said.
“We have turned the rig around and drilled from the south-eastern side with immediate success, consistently hitting wide zones of shallow gold-bearing mineralisation.”
“This program is now redefining our earlier understanding of this prospect and our focus will be to drill more shallow holes on similar sections across the deposit to confirm our evolving model.”
“Our aim is to announce a maiden mineral resource estimate for Brilliant and the first for the Golden Ridge project, and we look forward to making strong progress towards that goal in 2027.”
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