Brightstar accelerates towards development at Sandstone

Emerging gold producer Brightstar Resources (ASX: BTR) continues to deliver significant results from its drilling program at the Sandstone gold project.

Recent drilling results, located within the 1.5Moz at 1.5g/t gold Sandstone Hub, confirm the continuity of high-grade gold mineralization at the Lord Nelson and Bull Oak deposits and indicate promising potential for future mining activities..

The drilling program at the site, located near Laverton in the Goldfields of WA, is ongoing and more promising results are anticipated.

The Lord Nelson deposit holds a current mineral resource estimate (MRE) of 5.6Mt at 1.6g/t gold for 291koz od gold and the Bull Oak deposit has a total resource of 2.5Mt at 1.1g/t gold for 90koz. Upgraded MRE’s are expected following the completion of the drilling program.

Brightstar’s managing director Alex Rovira commented that the results continue to be hugely positive.

“At Lord Nelson, some of the widest, highest-grade intercepts at the deposit have been produced from the base of optimised pit shells, which bodes well for possible future open pit mining operations,” he said.

“At Havilah, it is especially exciting to identify high-grade mineralization, potentially representing new plunging shoots, completely untested by drilling at depth.

“Drilling continues across the portfolio with significant news flow due in the coming months, including upcoming drilling targeting depth extensions to our existing operating high-grade underground mines at Second Fortune and Fish.”

Brightstar has four major projects currently operating across the Laverton and Menzies Gold Fields in WA, including the Menzies gold project that historically produced 787,200oz at 18.9g/t of gold from intermittent production between 1895 and 1995.