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Barton Gold Completes Diamond Drilling Campaign at Tolmer Gold-Silver Prospect

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Barton Gold ASX BGD Diamond Drilling Campaign Tolmer Gold-Silver Tarcoola
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Barton Gold Holdings (ASX: BGD) (OTCQB: BGDFF) has completed a diamond drilling campaign at the high-grade Tolmer gold and silver prospect within its Tarcoola gold project in South Australia.

The company drilled three holes totalling 595.3 metres into the prospect’s eastern gold zone to identify structural controls and guide future targeting.

Best assays extended the high-grade silver horizons and added coincident gold grading up to 13 grams per tonne within a mineralised footprint measuring more than 1.5 kilometres in width.

Highlight Assays

Highlights were 6m at 4,747g/t silver from 46m including 1m at 17,600g/t and 4m at 13.2g/t gold from 48m including 1m at 51.2g/t, and 14m at 104g/t silver from 5m including 1m at 421g/t from 10m and 1m at 6.86g/t gold from 55m.

Other hits featured 9m at 217g/t silver from 44m including 1m at 1,100g/t and 1m at 7.9g/t gold, and 7m at 648g/t silver from 46m including 2m at 1,720g/t and 5m at 3.06g/t gold and 1m at 10.7g/t gold.

While Barton encountered silver mineralisation grading up to 117g/t in fresh rock during the campaign, the company is yet to confirm its origin and this will be a key focus of ongoing exploration.

Local Structure Controls

Managing director Alexander Scanlon said the new assays added to the company’s excitement surrounding the Tolmer discovery.

“This initial round of diamond drilling will give us a helpful first look at local structural controls,” he said.

“Together with the pending results of soil assays over the whole area, the assays will help guide future targeting across a now 1.5km wide footprint of shallow, high-grade mineralisation.”

High-grade discovery

Barton unveiled the Tolmer high-grade gold discovery in August 2024 and has since added one of Australia’s highest-grade modern silver discoveries approximately 500m to the west.

The company’s recent reverse circulation drilling assays extended the broad silver mineralisation and added high-grade gold to the ‘western silver zone’, yielding the highly-enriched 1.5km-wide footprint.

Shallow aircore drilling infilled and extended an upper horizon of shallow silver (largely independent of gold) and added gold and silver intervals to the lower horizon, with bonanza silver grades of up to 17,600g/t.