IN a significant improvement to the intercept grades, Westgold (ASX:WGX) has received screen fire assays for its Great Fingall mine near Cue in WA, with exceptional figures returned.
Westgold sees this drilling as proof that the stratigraphic controls to mineralisation remain in place.
It believes that the significant high grades that were produced historically at this site have been returned at greater than twice the former depth and plunge continuity is established at the high-grade Great Fingall Reef.
The results have Great Fingall Reef upgraded to 1.57m at 10.10g/t up from 7.95g/t from 1642.18m, 3.1m at 34.05g/t up from 20.17g/t from 1439.7m and 4.35m at 3.27g/t from 1,493.22m at Great Fingall Hangingwall Lodes.
Abundant specks of visible gold have been found at the main Great Fingall intercept of 1.57m at 7.98gT from 1642.18m in a section of 0.49 at 0.12g/t from 1642.92.
At the turn of the 19th century, the Great Fingall mine was one of the largest and most prosperous gold mines in WA.
It was mined to about 740 vertical metres before closing at the start of WW1 in 1914.
Though never mined since, open pit mining occurred in the early 2000’s and a deepening of the current pit via an in-wall ramp will serve as a future decline for the underground mine.
The lode system has been previously drilled by Westgold to approximately 100m vertical depth and defined a total underground resource of 1.1mt at 8.49g/t Au containing 308,000oz.
Significant remnant resources defined by development and inter-level rising are known to exist within the mine, however, has not been given consideration due to the age of the data.
The Golden Crown mine, 450m into the hanging wall of Great Fingall, was mined to about 650m vertical depth and has assayed 0.6m at 3.19g/t from 926.9m.
Westgold is confident that this abundant ore system has double the extension to its current mined depth.
