Western Areas announces encouraging results from first diamond drill hole at Sahara prospect

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.