Tambourah Metals set to advance Pilbara exploration with government drilling grant
Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) is set to further understand its sizeable Pilbara gold assets with the backing of a $180,000 grant from the Western Australia government.
The funding support from the Exploration Incentive Scheme grant will be used to support the company’s exploration concepts at the Alexandria prospect within the Tambourah King project.
The grant will help co-fund 12 diamond drill (DD) holes through and along strike from Alexandria and follow up historical drill intercepts from sporadic shallow drilling, with highlight results that included 4 metres at 2.10 grams per tonne gold from 20m, including 1m at 7.10g/t gold.
Gold continuity
The upcoming program will investigate the continuity of high-grade gold beneath historic pits along an additional 1,200m of strike south of Tambourah King.
The drilling program aims to confirm that the mineralised system at Tambourah is contiguous at depth over a strike length from Young Australian North through to Kushmattie.
Tambourah has had continuous success proving its theories on the mineral distribution at the historic Tambourah gold field, located 85km south-west of Marble Bar.
Shallow workings
High-grade gold mineralisation has been reported from the shallow workings, with reported production of 5,445t of ore for 148.9kg gold.
The Tambourah goldfield consists of over 20 individual historic workings that reported historic high-grade production but have had little systematic drilling.
“Our successful application for government co-funded drilling for the Tambourah gold project demonstrates the quality of the targets generated by the Tambourah exploration team,” executive chair Rita Brooks said.
Tambourah targets
Tambourah recently completed a maiden 700m of DD at the World’s Fair, Tambourah King and Federal gold prospects, aiming to identify different styles of gold mineralisation in the northern section of the Tambourah gold field.
The company’s current focus is the exploration of high-grade gold along strike and parallel to the historic workings, using prospecting and recently acquired structural and geological data from the company’s drilling programs.
It recently used its expertise to successfully obtain high-grade gold samples from the Duke prospect at Tambourah.
Notably, the first-pass sampling yielded consistently elevated gold over an area with no previous drilling, highlighting the potential to significantly extend the previously mapped and drilled gold mineralisation at Tambourah.