Gateway Mining has outlined a gold-mineralised corridor extending for more than seven kilometres at the Ward prospect within its Yandal Gold Project in Western Australia.
The company reported the results on 28 August 2026 following a recently completed aircore drilling program. Ward lies about six kilometres along strike from Gateway's Cowza gold system in the Yandal Greenstone Belt.
Drilling maps an extensive system
Gateway said the aircore program delineated a continuous gold anomaly along a key structural contact and confirmed mineralisation at multiple locations along the Ward trend. Better recent intersections included 4 metres at 4.0 grams per tonne gold from 88 metres, 4 metres at 3.7g/t from 96 metres and 4 metres at 3.2g/t from 60 metres.
Historic drilling at Ward also returned broader mineralised intervals, including 34 metres at 1.7g/t gold from 41 metres, with 10 metres at 3.8g/t, and 13 metres at 1.0g/t from 65 metres, including 3 metres at 2.3g/t.
The latest drilling has helped Gateway refine the position of the mafic-intermediate volcanic contact that it interprets as an important control on gold mineralisation. Earlier programs had mainly tested secondary structures in the footwall, leaving much of the principal contact lightly drilled.
Regional exploration opportunity
Ward forms part of a broader mineralised trend that runs from Celia South through Cowza and Ward for more than 13 kilometres of combined strike. The emergence of a second large-scale mineralised corridor close to Cowza gives Gateway additional targets within the wider Yandal project area.
Gateway's Yandal Gold Project spans about 1,780 square kilometres on the eastern side of the Yandal Greenstone Belt, around 50 kilometres north-east of the Jundee processing operation. The project contains an existing JORC 2012 Mineral Resource of 8.17 million tonnes at 1.52g/t gold for 400,400 ounces across the Horse Well Gold Camp and Dusk 'til Dawn deposits.
Follow-up drilling planned
Future reverse-circulation drilling at Ward will test priority sections of the seven-kilometre trend, particularly the underexplored mafic-intermediate contact and related structures. The work is intended to define the geometry, continuity and scale of the mineralised system.
Gateway is also continuing reverse-circulation drilling at Cowza, with initial results from the current program expected shortly. Ongoing drilling across both prospects could support further field activity and technical workforce planning as the company advances its Yandal exploration program.
Source: Gateway Mining Limited, “Drilling Defines 7KM Gold System at Ward”, 28 August 2026.