Javelin Minerals Unveils New Gold and Copper Targets at Coogee Project in WA

Javelin Minerals (ASX: JAV) has identified a range of drilling targets through a desktop study of historical exploration information from its Coogee gold and copper project located near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.

The review has unearthed a number of large geophysical anomalies coincident with widespread gold and copper from shallow historical drilling at Coogee North and Coogee West.

The known presence of magnetite, closely associated with gold mineralisation in the region, further enhances the potential of these anomalies.

Upcoming Drilling Campaign

Javelin will use these latest study results to inform the drilling program it has scheduled for Q1 2026 to test the new gold and copper-gold targets.

Previous operator Ramelius Resources (ASX: RMS) mined 224,000 tonnes from Coogee in 2014 at 4.10 grams per tonne for 30,000 ounces of gold.

Despite seeing little exploration since that time, the project has an existing mineral resource estimate of 3.6Mt at 1.08g/t for 127,000oz gold and 1Mt copper at 0.41% for 4,122t.

Coogee sits within the southern extents of the Kalgoorlie Terrane within the Eastern Goldfields Province of the Yilgarn Craton near several major faults associated with extensive mineralisation.

Promising New Targets

“These targets are clearly compelling exploration opportunities—as shown by the strength of the geophysical signatures, the coincident geochemistry, and the highly favourable geological settings,” executive chair Brett Mitchell said.

“The wider project area has seen […] basically no deeper drilling, with the previous focus having been on establishing near-term mineable ounces.”

“We have the advantage of being able to step-back and review the wider potential—we know the project hosts extensive gold mineralisation and there is already a copper resource,” he added.

Land Use Agreement

The positive exploration news comes just one day after Javelin signed a land use agreement (LUA) with a local native title claim group covering its Eureka and Coogee projects.

Javelin recently signed a right-to-mine contract with local mining services provider MEGA Resources that will cover mining, project financing, and haulage services at Eureka.

Javelin has also submitted a new mining lease application to increase the size of the existing mining lease around the Eureka pit, to enable a larger cutback for the commencement of its mining operations at the site.