McLaren Minerals Confirms High-Grade Heavy Mineral Potential in WA with New Drilling

McLaren Minerals (ASX: MML) has further confirmed the high-grade potential of its namesake titanium project in Western Australia with impressive new drilling results.

Assays of 1,424 samples have identified broad, consistent, and high-grade heavy minerals (HM) across the tested area, with 14 metres @ 3.7% HM from surface including 7.87% HM @ 12m, and 14m @ 5.7% HM from surface including a 2m intersection grading 19.45% HM from 12m the standouts.

The company will add these new results to a planned mineral resource estimate (MRE) update, while it wraps up a prefeasibility study for the project.

Multiple HM Strands

The identification of multiple HM-hosting strand developments at McLaren has further boosted the company’s assessment of the project’s geological profile.

Drilling adjacent to historical holes has also returned consistent results, confirming the continuous nature of mineralised beds across the project area.

“The results enhance the company’s understanding of mineralisation patterns, grade distributions and continuity, marking an important step toward future development and planning,” managing director Simon Finnis said.

The McLaren titanium project is located approximately 140 kilometres east of Norseman in WA, and hosts extensive titanium-bearing sands within a current indicated and inferred MRE of 280 million tonnes at 4.8% HM.

Growth Potential

McLaren has so far received results from approximately 75% of the samples from its 192-hole Phase 1 program, which have highlighted the potential for growth immediately north of the current indicated resource.

“It is very pleasing to see these high-grade results in this recent round of assays, giving us more confidence in the strength and potential of the deposit,” Mr Finnis said.

“The majority of these results are outside the existing indicated resource, so the grades and continuity are very encouraging—we are confident the data will underpin a robust resource update and help shape the next phase of development.”

Metallurgical test work has also confirmed that slimes can be managed effectively using established, industry-standard methods.