Perth-based junior Kin Mining (ASX: KIN) has begun a substantial aircore drilling program to evaluate the historic Murrin Murrin project in Western Australia
The company will complete 12 holes for a total 8,800 metres to provide an initial test of strong gold-in-soil anomalies on the western side of the tenements, which were delineated last year during auger drilling.
It will also test for strike extensions of areas where previous reverse circulation drilling adjacent to historical surface workings returned notable results including 25m at 3.16 grams per tonne gold from 63m; 17m at 1.11g/t gold from 6m; 8m at 3.52g/t gold from 28m; and 4m at 4.81g/t gold from 20m.
Murrin Murrin location
Kin’s Murrin Murrin leases are located adjacent to the historical Murrin Murrin gold mining centre, where mining in the 1890s targeted rich and narrow quartz veins.
Total gold production up to 1954 is reported to have been 97,199 ounces from 136,512t of ore grading an average 22.1g/t gold.
A further 31,177oz of lower grade material was produced in open pit operations between 1988 and 1994 from the Hills Proprietary, Malcolm and Challenger mines situated to the west of Murrin Murrin.
Despite their proximity to numerous abandoned mines and historical mining centres in the district, the Murrin Murrin tenements have not been subject to systematic, modern-day exploration and their potential has not been fully appraised.
Cardinia exploration
The Murrin Murrin aircore program is part of Kin’s regional exploration strategy surrounding the 1.41 million ounce Cardinia gold project.
Other work includes resource expansion drilling at the underexplored Rangoon deposit which has an inferred mineral resource of 2.28Mt at 1.3g/t gold for 95,000oz.
Recent drilling at Rangoon and other prospects (Cardinia Hill, Helens and Fiona) within the Cardinia eastern corridor has reinforced the area’s substantial endowment and priority nature.
The deposits host more than 338,000oz of combined mineral resources and are interpreted to be structurally linked as part of a larger mineralised system.
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