14 July 2026 | Western Australia - New Murchison Gold has reported high-grade gold intercepts from grade control and resource definition drilling at the Cloudkicker deposit, part of the company’s Garden Gully Gold Project in Western Australia.
Cloudkicker is located next to the existing Crown Prince open pit but is considered a separate deposit. Importantly, it is already included in the approved mining proposal for M51/886, allowing mining to commence immediately.
Best results from recent drilling include:
- 10m at 13.61 g/t gold from 44m, including 3m at 32.17 g/t gold
- 9m at 9.31 g/t gold from 3m, including 3m at 14.30 g/t gold
- 8m at 9.22 g/t gold from 62m, including 3m at 14.32 g/t gold
- 7m at 8.70 g/t gold from 55m, including 1m at 38.30 g/t gold
- 1m at 54.80 g/t gold from 58m
The company said the results confirm shallow, high-grade gold mineralisation at Cloudkicker, with some areas returning higher grades and better widths than the recent resource estimate.
Why it matters: Cloudkicker is not just an exploration story. Mining has already commenced, and New Murchison expects the open pit to add around 20,000 ounces of gold in ore to the production profile over the next 12 to 18 months.
CEO Alex Passmore said Cloudkicker sits within the footprint of existing operations and can be brought into production with very little additional site resourcing. First caprock ore is expected to be crushed in September 2026.
For the WA gold sector, this is a practical near-term production story: high-grade shallow results, existing approvals, mining underway and additional ounces expected to feed into the company’s production profile.
Source: New Murchison Gold ASX announcement, “High-Grade Gold Intercepts at Cloudkicker Deposit”, 14 July 2026.