Artemis Resources Limited (ASX:ARV) High Grade Gold Zone Extended By 100m At Mt Clement
Sydney, Dec 9, 2010 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Australian resources company, Artemis Resources Ltd. (80%) (
ASX:ARV), as operator of the Mt Clement JV with Northern Star Resources Ltd. (20%) (ASX:NST), is pleased to announce a significant southerly extension to the high-grade mineralisation from its current drilling program at its Mt Clement Gold Project in Western Australia. Results from the current drilling program continue to extend the high-grade mineralisation to the south by more than 100m and demonstrates that gold mineralisation remains open in all directions. The most recent results from the current drilling include:
- 11m @ 4.76g/t gold from 97m depth (hole ARMCRC013)
- This intercept is enhanced by an internal interval of 4.0m @ 9.33g/t gold at 97m depth
- 46m @ 1.75g/t gold from 24m depth including 5m @ 3.35g/t gold at 24m depth and 3m @ 4.21g/t gold at 59m (hole ARMCRCD006)
- 2m @ 3.33g/t gold expands the near-surface oxide gold (hole ARMCRC012).
Artemis Resources is currently undertaking a reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling (DD) program at its Mt Clement Gold Project in Western Australia in order to drill-define gold, silver and copper resources. The current drilling program is aimed at extending the high-grade mineralisation ("Type 1") both along strike and at depth, as well as in-filling and extending the near-surface oxide gold potential ("Type 2" mineralisation).
Artemis' drill hole ARMCRC013 at Mt Clement has intersected high grade gold, silver and copper over an 11m wide down-hole interval between 97m and 108m depth grading 4.76g/t gold, 260g/t silver and 1.1% copper. This broad interval includes a narrower interval of 4m @ 9.33g/t gold, +500g/t silver and +2% copper. A further internal subdivision within the 4m interval includes 2m @ 12.95g/t gold, +700g/t silver and +3% copper between 97m and 99m depth.
Hole ARMCRCD006 was drilled to in-fill a gap in the historical, near-surface drilling pattern. Assay results for this hole include a broad interval of 46m @ 1.75g/t gold from 24m depth. Within this interval, a number of higher grade zones occur including 5m @ 3.35g/t gold (24m - 29m) and 3m @ 4.21 g/t gold (59m - 62m). As expected in the "Type 2" oxide mineralisation, there are only low levels of silver and copper associated with this mineralisation. This hole successfully filled the gap in drilling and has substantially boosted the overall tonnage of known mineralisation in the oxide gold zone.
Drill hole ARMCRC012 was also drilled in the oxide portion of the gold deposit to test for possible southern extensions of gold mineralisation. The hole was drilled towards the south and encountered 2m @ 3.33g/t gold and provides robust evidence that mineralisation continues to extend towards the south.
Over 2300m have now been drilled in Phase 2 exploration at Mt Clement with a final diamond drill-hole currently in progress. The drilling program will be completed at the end of the current diamond drill-hole owing to the on-set of the wet season. Assay results will continue to be received throughout December and January as the geological logging, cutting and sampling is completed and results will be reported once they are received and interpreted.
"We are delighted with the success of the on-going drilling program at Mount Clement, which continues to exceed our expectations," said Mr David Price, Executive General Manager of Artemis Resources.
"Until now, almost 93% of holes drilled by Artemis have successfully intersected gold values which may prove economic over what appear to be mineable widths - that is a pretty impressive statistic." Mr Price added.
"The Company aims to define a maiden resource by mid-2011 and, subject to feasibility of course, we envisage potential production could involve a combination of open cut mining of the oxide ore, which now extends down to 120m in places and underground mining of the high-grade zones. We will continue to report progress at Mt Clement as further assay results are received and interpreted over the coming weeks," Mr Price said.
For the complete Artemis Resources announcement including location map and drilling results, please view the following link:
http://www.abnnewswire.net/media/en/docs/64405-ASX-ARV-519761.pdf
About Artemis Resources Ltd
Artemis Resources Limited (ASX:ARV) (FRA:ATY) is a resources exploration and development company with a focus on its prospective West Pilbara (gold, base metals, platinum and platinum group elements) and Mt Clement-Paulsens (gold) project in Western Australia. On 16 December 2016, Artemis announced the signing of a binding conditional agreement with Fox Resources Limited for a 3 month exclusive option to buy their fully permitted AGIP 425,000tpa Radio Hill nickel and copper operations, processing plant and associated mining and exploration tenements with significant existing JORC 2004 and 2012 compliant resources of Nickel, Copper and Zinc situated within a 15 km radius of the Radio Hill plant, for a total consideration of $3.5 million. The Radio Hill Plant is located 35 km south of Karratha in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia.
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