SYDNEY: Western Areas Ltd announced highly encouraging results from the first diamond drill hole at the Sahara prospect within the Western Gawler Project in South Australia.
Western Areas Managing Director, Dan Lougher, said, “This is an excellent result from our first drill hole at the Sahara prospect, intercepting broad widths of nickel and copper bearing mineralisation. We keenly await the assay results, but it is already clear from what we have seen in the drill core, that we have a significant exploration result that merits immediate follow up work.”
“Importantly, we originally targeted this area due to its geological similarities to the Nova-Bollinger and Nebo-Babel nickel/copper deposits and this result adds to our belief that this area could host similar mineral accumulations. A lot more work is required to determine the extent of this mineralisation and we are in the process of updating our exploration plans to focus on this area,” Mr Lougher said.