Infinity Mining Limited (ASX: IMI) has completed the first stage of ground exploration on the Barlow’s Gully tenement P37/8278 with a 679m aircore drilling programme in Western Australia.
This programme was designed to identify potential hardrock gold sources for the abundant surface alluvial gold present within surface soils and drainage channels across the tenement.
The Barlow’s tenement is located over known greenstones along a major regional structure, the Ursus Fault Zone, linked to other major gold mining deposits and operations to the SSE (e.g. King of the Hills, Kailis), in the Leonora District of the Central Goldfields.
A programme of 194 aircore holes was completed by Infinity at Barlow’s, along 8 x N-S traverses, spaced approximately 150 to 200m apart, for a total advance of 679 metres of drilling.
Downhole samples were collected and have been submitted to a WA laboratory for gold and multi-element analyses. Assay results are due next month.
CEO, Joe Groot, said the early-stage aircore drilling programme is being used to determine the potential source of the surface gold, historically collected from this area.
“The results from this aircore programme (pending) will enable Infinity to design further aircore/RC drilling programmes to test for potential hardrock gold below the gold-bearing surface deposits.
“Barlow’s was first discovered in the late 1890’s by the Morris brothers when returning from Lake Darlot to Coolgardie. They stopped on the return journey and worked the streams and gullies without ever finding the source of the gold.
“The main area of Barlow’s has historically had a dry blower working the area with several large piles of processed material on site. There are numerous shallow workings on the tenement chasing narrow quartz veins in greenstone and calcrete. The veins generally run in an East-West strike direction with numerous small historical mine shafts, up to 10 metres deep, following the quartz veins.
“To our knowledge, this is the first modern-day exploration programme conducted at Barlow’s, as the lease has always been in private hands.”
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