North Stawell ready to drill at Darlington 

The Darlington prospect lies in the highly gold-prospective corridor that runs from Stawell in the south, through Darlington, and is interpreted to continue through in the Caledonia Prospect 2km to the north.
The Darlington prospect lies in the highly gold-prospective corridor that runs from Stawell in the south, through Darlington, and is interpreted to continue through in the Caledonia Prospect 2km to the north.

North Stawell Minerals (ASX: NSM) has secured a Victorian diamond drilling company’s service to commence drilling to investigate the high-grade gold results intersected at the Darlington prospect in Victoria. 

A diamond rig is scheduled to commence drilling in the second half of September with the company scheduled to commence 600-900m of planned drilling. 

Drilling will target extensions of a recently drilled brecciated, quartz-sulphide vein with multiple occurrences of visible gold that returned 2.3m at 29.2g/t gold from 108.2m from drill hole NSD057, including 0.8m at 82.3g/t gold from 108.2m.  

Historic production from the Darlington mine, 200m north of the target, includes 2347oz gold at 18.2g/t gold. 

Other recent drilling intercepts on the Darlington mine include 4m at 10.77 g/t gold from 60m for NSAC0527, 6m at 3.04 g/t gold from 45m for NSAC0532 and 1.5m at 4.24 g/t gold from 140.5m for NSD053. 

These results provide encouragement that the high-grade gold mineralisation at Darlington might be extended with additional drilling and supports the theory of a possible high-grade gold system, according to North Stawell Minerals.  

The NSD057 target is “off-trend” from previous gold intercepts at Darlington and the intercept is open in all directions.  

Darlington is a priority target within the North Stawell project which has potential for repeats of the mineralisation at Stawell, 6km to the south.  

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