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Orion Gold NL
Summary
| Project: | Prieska Mine | |
|---|---|---|
| Deposit: | Prieska Mine | |
| Location: | South Africa | |
| Commodities: | Copper-Zinc-Lead-Gold-Silver | |
| Date: | 11/2/2016 | |
| Report Code: | JORC | |
| Report Type: | Exploration/Drilling Update | |
| Project Stage: | Pursuing Resources Definition | |
| Report details: | 2-11-2016: Orion Gold NL announces an Exploration/Drilling Update report for its Prieska Mine deposit at the Prieska Mine project. Drilling results incl. 7m @ 2.46g/t Au from 23m. Orion Gold NL (ASX: ORN) is pleased to report further strong drilling resul | |
| Resources: | x | |
| CP/QP: | [Overall Report]: Errol Smart (Internal) | |
| ABSTRACT: | Orion Gold NL (ASX: ORN) is pleased to report further strong drilling results from its ongoing diamond drilling program at the historical Prieska Copper Mine (PC) Zinc-Copper Project in the northern Cape Province, South Africa, including shallow zinc-copper sulphide hits in the open pit target and significant gold mineralisation in the oxide zone. These are the first results from diamond core drilling of the +105 Level Exploration Target, with the holes located to test areas up-dip from, historical mining areas (Figures 1, 2 and 3). The PC Project covers unmined dip and strike extensions from historical underground mining, with mineralisation having previously been delineated by extensive drilling and geophysics. The current drilling program is designed to confirm, in-fill and extend the historical drilling at the +105 Level Exploration Target, where drilling is targeting mineralisation that would be amenable to extraction via open pit mining (Figure 2 and Appendix 3). Diamond core drilling at the +105 Level Exploration Target is utilising an innovative shallow drilling method to drill holes to test mineralisation up-dip of historical underground mining. By utilising inclinations of between 15 and 30 degrees from the horizontal and using flexible barrels, the holes can be manipulated to intersect the mineralisation at an optimal angle (Figure 3). While this method is now proving successful, considerable experimentation with equipment, techniques and drilling additives has been required to obtain the required results. Significantly, OCOD035 (Figures 1 and 2) has now also intersected similar sulphide mineralisation from 168.88m – 176.60m to that observed in OCOD033, with sampling currently underway. Hole OCOD036 (Figure 2) is also in progress and is now nearing target depth. | |
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