Solstice Minerals Expands Exploration at Yarri’s Bluetooth Gold Prospect in WA

Solstice Minerals (ASX: SLS) is accelerating exploration at the Bluetooth gold prospect within its Yarri project in Western Australia after further strong returns from Phase III reverse circulation (RC) drilling.
Bluetooth continues to grow, with the latest drilling delivering gold intercepts in four metre composite samples and reinforcing the commercial potential of the gold system.
Solstice’s team is already preparing for further drilling at Bluetooth to increase near-surface drill density and conduct tests aimed at boosting an initial mineral resource estimation (MRE) for the prospect.
Earlier Drilling Success
Solstice designed the program, which comprised 15 RC holes for 1,278 metres, to further investigate widely spaced historical drill-holes and build on the strong gold intercepts returned in Solstice’s earlier drilling at Bluetooth.
Highlight new four metre composite samples included 32m at 1.68 grams per tonne gold from 48m, 16m at 1.49g/t gold from 41m, and 12m at 1.29g/t gold from 58m.
Alongside the upcoming next stage of drilling at Yarri, the company is also exploring a new mineralised surface at Edjudina Range, a soil-covered belt of rocks located 24 kilometres along strike to the southeast of Bluetooth.
A maiden RC drilling campaign there returned 16m at 1.10g/t gold, with Solstice expecting results from a five-hole follow-up program shortly.
Keeps on Delivering
Chief executive officer and managing director, Nick Castleden, said the new results builds on the company’s impressive Phase I and Phase II RC intercepts at Bluetooth.
“Bluetooth keeps delivering significant intercepts, with the latest drilling defining more broad zones of shallowly dipping, near-surface oxide gold mineralisation [and] we are also seeing signs of mineralisation extending into the underlying fresh rock profile,” he said.
“The overall geometry looks favourable for potential open pit extraction, so the next phase of work will continue to build on these oxide results and include further drilling to track zones of quartz veining into underlying fresh-rock positions.”
Solstice is also about to commence first stage RC drilling at the Nanadie copper-gold project in the Murchison Region of WA, which contains an MRE of 160,000t of copper and 130,000 ounces of gold.