Tambourah Metals extends shallow gold strike with RC program at Tambourah King
West Australian exploration company Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) has highlighted potential extensions to the lode gold system with significant shallow intersections at its Tambourah King target in the Pilbara region.
The company has now received promising results from the completed reverse circulation (RC) drilling program at the Tambourah gold project, located 100 kilometres south-west of Marble Bar in WA’s north.
The drilling program commenced in late August and comprised 11 holes including six RC drill holes, three diamond drill (DD) holes with RC pre-collars and two DD surface holes.
Relatively long strike
The latest drilling at Tambourah King targeted extensions to high-grade gold intersected in Tambourah’s 2023 RC drilling campaign and has identified a mineralised lode over a strike of approximately 150m.
Highlight results included 5m at 2.02 grams per tonne gold from 53m including 1m at 3.35g/t from 54m, 6m at 2.05g/t from 18m including 1m at 4.61g/t from 23m and 1m at 5.89g/t from 23m.
Previous highlight results include 2m at 18g/t gold from 55m including 1m at 20.2g/t from 55m and 5m at 6.1g/t from 69m including 1m at 28g/t from 70m.
Shallow lode
With the Tambourah King lode confirmed to be at relatively shallow depths, the structural information derived from the DD campaign will greatly assist in planning future drill programs, targeting down-dip/down-plunge extensions to the mineralisation.
The latest Tambourah gold project drilling is part of what has been an active 12 months of exploration for Tambourah.
The company received WA government support for the DD program at the Tambourah gold fields, which were partially funded through an Exploration Incentive Scheme grant.
Price advantage
It was the first DD program planned at the Tambourah field since gold was first discovered in the 1890s.
Executive chair Rita Brooks recently told shareholders the company had been able to advance gold exploration programs at the Tambourah and Cheela gold fields and the Bryah copper-gold project in the Murchison region during the financial year.
“The increased gold price has proved a great advantage to our exploration efforts and we raised funds in order to accelerate our drilling programs,” Ms Brooks said.