S2 Resources Adds Jillewarra Acreage While Ramping up Exploration Across its Australian Portfolio

S2 Resources (ASX: S2R) has added new acreage to its Jillewarra project in Western Australia as it ramps up its activities across Australia.

The company has lodged a new tenement application for an area immediately to the north of the Jillewarra joint venture tenements that would extend its coverage of the Karbah shear zone by approximately 25 kilometres.

In a busy period for the company, Renegade has also completed drilling at its West Murchison project, received new assay results from its Glenlogan operation, and commenced exploration at Warraweena.

Rich Mineralised Gold Zone

The Karbah shear zone is the same regional structure that controls the location of gold mineralisation at Westgold Resources’ (ASX: WGX) Big Bell gold mine and the high-grade Never Never gold mine now owned by Ramelius Resources (ASX: RMS).

Desert Metals’ (ASX: DM1) previous exploration of the application area included airborne electromagnetics, selective reverse circulation (RC) drilling of specific airborne electromagnetic (EM) conductors, and wide-spaced aircore traverses.

Limited historical drilling intersected 12 metres at 0.32% copper and 0.7 grams per tonne silver from 144m, including 4.0m at 0.51% copper and 1.5g/t silver from 152m.

Jillewarra Project History

S2 initially entered into a binding agreement in October 2020 with private company Black Raven Mining to earn a majority interest in the Jillewarra project, comprising a group of tenements approximately 50km west-north-west of Meekatharra.

The project initially covered an area of 790 sq km and a strike length of 50km of the greenstone belt.

Jillewarra contains a number of historical gold workings along several trends, with limited and relatively shallow drilling of some of these intersecting high-grade gold mineralisation.

West Murchison Drilling

Meanwhile, S2 has completed a RC program at its West Murchison project to test a 500m copper-platinum-palladium-gold soil anomaly, drilling seven holes on two traverses 200m apart.

Representative samples from the entire drill program are currently at the laboratory for analysis, with assay results pending.

The company will determine its future plans at West Murchison once it has received assay results.

These may include electrical geophysics such as ground EM and/or induced polarisation (IP) surveys targeting greater concentrations of sulphide mineralisation within the broader system.

S2 has also received results from an initial diamond drill hole testing a coincident IP chargeability and resistivity anomalies at its Glenlogan project in NSW.

The hole intersected only trace amounts of sulphide insufficient to explain the IP chargeability anomaly, with the highest result 0.3m at 0.06g/t gold, 0.44 g/t silver, and 767 parts per million copper from 762.3m.

Warraweena Gravity Survey

S2 initiated a gravity survey at its Warraweena project last week, with drilling to commence within the next few weeks.

The company can earn up to an 80% interest at Warraweena, which sits near where a recent government-sponsored survey collected a sample that is the most nickel, copper, and zinc-rich ever collected in Australia.

A detailed gravity survey S2 conducted in 2024 identified a number of distinct gravity anomalies associated with various magnetic features.

These features could represent a range of target styles including copper-gold porphyries, iron oxide associated copper-gold diatremes, magmatic nickel-copper-PGE intrusions, Cobar-style copper-gold-zinc-lead targets, tin, and tungsten.