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Calidus Resources Limited announced today strong drilling results which highlight the potential for an open-pit operation at its Blue Spec East prospect in the Pilbara. The results come from the RC drilling campaign conducted in December 2021 and January 2022 . Assay results, including multi-element geochemistry, have been received now for all drill holes. The results better defined the shape of previously identified intersections and confirm that known mineralisation at depth continues to near the surface where it may be amenable to open-pit mining. Follow-up drilling is needed to determine the potential for an open-pit resource. At Blue Spec, south of the main fault zone hosting the Blue Spec and Gold Spec deposits, drilling has confirmed that a newly identified zone is highly anomalous in gold and pathfinder elements. At the historic Marble Bar Goldfield, drilling of the main quartz reef has confirmed the down-dip continuity of the reef with intersections of up to 2m @ 8.03g/t Au (including 1m @ 12.9g/t Au) present. The reef is open along strike and down dip.

Calidus Managing Director Dave Reeves said: “These results clearly demonstrate there is opportunity for additional mine life at Blue Spec beyond the current resource. In addition, anomalous gold results from a parallel shear are encouraging for the wider area where targeted soil sampling is scheduled to begin shortly. “At Marble Bar, the initial drilling program has demonstrated the presence of shallow high-grade gold down dip from the old workings. These results will be followed up with further drilling as this area may provide additional high-grade ore to Warrawoona given it is just 25km from the processing plant”.

• The total Mineral Resources (Indicated and Inferred) at the Cue Project increased 41% to: 12.3Mt @ 2.3g/t gold for 927,000 ounces

Musgrave Minerals Ltd today reported a significant Mineral Resource estimate update on its 100% owned tenure at the Company’s flagship Cue Gold Project in Western Australia’s Murchison district

The total Cue Project Mineral Resource Estimate has now grown to 12.3Mt @ 2.3g/t Au for 927,000 ounces of contained gold (Table 1) with the high-grade Mineral Resources hosted in the Break of Day trend totalling 982kt @ 10.4g/t Au for 327,000 ounces of contained gold. This near-surface high-grade component of our total resource base is expected to be a significant driver of future value and the Company’s exploration efforts will continue to focus on identifying and testing near-surface, high-grade gold targets to further grow the resource base.

Musgrave’s Managing Director Rob Waugh said “This is a significant result for the Company and the growth in Mineral Resources will improve the future development potential of the project. The ongoing focus is to continue to grow our near-surface high-grade resources at Cue and progress PFS level studies to accommodate these new deposits and potential future resource upgrades. The deposits sit on a combination of granted Mining and Exploration Licences in a region with excellent infrastructure within a favourable mining jurisdiction.

Southern Cross Gold Ltd announced today a spectacularly wide intersection of gold-antimony mineralisation grading 119.2 m @ 3.9 g/t AuEq from 106.8 m in drill hole SDDSC033 at the 100%-owned Sunday Creek Project in Victoria. The drill hole also intersected 8 high-grade intersections >30 g/t Au with assays up to 119.5 g/t Au.

Fosterville owned by American gold Giant Agneco Eagle (Australia’s highest grade gold mine) is located just 30km to the North West

Southern Cross Gold’s Managing Director, Michael Hudson said “This result is unprecedented in terms of width of high-grade mineralisation rarely, if ever, seen in the Victorian goldfields. A result of 119.2m @ 3.9 g/t AuEq places the Sunday Creek project into a new realm and builds on what was already a remarkably successful drill program. Continuity, with great width and grades, is now evident down to 335 m vertical depth in the Apollo Shoot that remains open to depth, while multiple adjacent shoots remain to be drilled out. With the freehold land secured, industry-leading drill results, strong local relationships, a team of ore discoverers in place and the drill rig continuing to target extensions to mineralisation found in SDDSC033, we highly anticipate further results.”

Calidus Resources Limited was pleased to announce that the maiden drill program has commenced at Pirra Lithium’s Spear Hill discovery located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The initial drill program will comprise of 38 holes for approximately 3,000m. The program will test a pegmatite that has yielded assays of 0.66%–2.34% Li2O3 and a second poorly-exposed pegmatite to the north.

Managing Director Dave Reeves said “We believe Spear Hill has excellent potential, as indicated by the high-grade lithium rock-chip results identified earlier this year. The commencement of the maiden drill program so soon after the initial discovery demonstrates the Company’s determination to accelerate exploration progress at the project. “Concurrently we are actively assessing the lithium potential across the wider Spear Hill area and the rest of the tenement package, utilizing interpretation of remotely sensed data, field mapping, and rock-chip sampling. “Exploration to date has only tested a fraction of the large tenement package and rights owned by Pirra Lithium, and we are excited to unlock the full potential of the Pilbara”

De Grey Mining Limited announced today the following drilling update for the Crow Zone at the Hemi Gold Discovery, located approximately 60km south of Port Hedland in Western Australia
Hemi is surrounded by world-class infrastructure within a Tier 1 mining jurisdiction. The overall scale of Hemi continues to increase with dimensions growing to approximately 2.5km north to south and 2km west to east with three main zones (Aquila, Brolga and Crow) defined within this large gold system. The Crow zone is located immediately adjacent and north of the Aquila zone.
The Company has one aircore rig operating south of Aquila and one operating in the Greater Hemi region looking for mineralised extensions and Hemi look-alikes. Two RC rigs are following up extensions identified in aircore drilling and two diamond rigs are drilling depth extensions. Initial aircore drilling at Crow defined a large system +1km long and +400m wide. A program of RC and diamond drilling has been undertaken to define and extend mineralisation. Results reported in this release provide extensions and infill to the Crow zone and importantly shows an exciting new high-grade gold intercept in HERC238.
Highlights: Thick, high-grade gold intercept with visible gold at Crow:

64m @ 13.4g/t Au from 141m in HERC238 (using a 0.3g/t cutoff), including:
19m @ 42.0g/t Au from 170m (which in turn includes 8m @ 84.7g/t)

Additional significant RC results (>20gm*m) at Crow include:

12m @ 2.4g/t Au from 109m in HERC175
24m @ 1.1g/t Au from 51m in HERC225
31m @ 2.2g/t Au from 69m in HERC227

De Grey Managing Director, Glenn Jardine, commented: “Extensional and definition RC and diamond drilling at Crow on an 80-metre pattern commenced only recently in July. The exceptional result in HERC238 is the best result at the Mallina Project to date and has transformed our perceptions of the large Crow intrusion. It follows recent announcements of the discovery of new sub-vertical lodes in Crow, together with mineralised extensions of Crow to the north-west.
The significance of the new RC results at Crow goes beyond the results in HERC238. They demonstrate the potential for Crow to significantly add to the overall gold endowment at Hemi and to meaningfully contribute to a potential large scale, near-surface open-pit production scenario. The mineralised footprint at Crow is currently approximately 1,000m by 400m and remains open.
The Company’s drilling program is working successfully toward our strategic goal of making Hemi a Tier 1 scale gold deposit and demonstrating the potential for further upside on a tenement wide scale.”

Musgrave Minerals Ltd reported assay results for a further five reverse circulation (“RC”) drill holes and the first five diamond drill holes from the current program at the new Starlight gold discovery at Break of Day. Drilling continues to confirm the high-grade nature of the Starlight and White Light gold discoveries. Starlight remains open down-dip where drilling is continuing. All intercepts reported in the current drilling program are outside the existing Break of Day resource estimate.
The Starlight and White Light gold lodes at Break of Day are located on the Company’s 100% owned ground at its flagship Cue Gold Project in Western Australia’s Murchison district. Drilling at Starlight is continuing, with a focus on infilling and also extending the high-grade gold mineralisation at depth.
Drilling will also continue to test for new lodes within the Break of Day/Lena mineralised corridor with a third drill rig due to commence on the 100% owned Musgrave ground in mid-August. 
Musgrave Managing Director Rob Waugh said:
“Starlight continues to produce stunning gold results in near-surface drilling. Further RC drilling is underway to infill and extend the Starlight mineralisation with the aim of completing a JORC resource update late in Q3 2020. Diamond drilling is also continuing to test for depth extensions of the high-grade Starlight lode below 250 vertical metres and to further define the White Light lode. We anticipate having four drill rigs on site by mid August.”
RC drilling at Starlight continues to deliver strong gold intercepts including:

14m @ 191.1g/t Au from 4m (20MORC068) including;
3m @ 884.7g/t Au from 5m including;
1m @ 2,518.8g/t Au from 6m
22m @ 5.8g/t Au from 15m (20MORC067) including;
3m @ 26.2g/t Au from 31m
5m @ 14.3g/t Au from 90m (20MORC064)
6m @ 5.3g/t Au from 232m (20MORC063)

Diamond drilling at Starlight has returned intercepts including:

16m @ 13.7g/t Au from 18m (20MODD008) including;
4m @ 40.8g/t Au from 18m and
9m @ 6.1 g/t Au from 25m
0.5m @ 25.4g/t Au from 269.5m (20MODD007)

Pantoro Limited advised today that its follow up RC drilling program at the recently discovered Panda Deposit has successfully extended mineralisation to the North and South, with mineralisation open in both directions along strike.
Results from the latest round of drilling include:

2 m @ 12.70 g/t Au.
2 m @ 9.10 g/t Au.
5 m @ 4.65 g/t Au.
3 m @ 9.41 g/t Au.
3 m @ 3.7 g/t Au.
3 m @ 4.12 g/t Au.
3 m @ 3.11g/t Au.

All drilling was focussed on potential open pit material, and as such the deposit remains open at depth. The deepest hole drilled to date is approximately 150 metres below surface returning 3 m @ 9.41 g/t Au suggesting continued high grades down plunge.
Commenting on the results, Managing Director Paul Cmrlec said: “Ongoing drilling at Panda has highlighted substantial strike and depth extensions beyond the initial discovery. Mineralisation has now been identified by drilling over a distance of approximately 530 metres and down to approximately 150 metres depth in the north. The deposit is shaping up to be another important ore source within the Scotia Mining Centre and further drilling will be undertaken to test the full extent of mineralisation and to define an initial Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve available for mining when operations recommence.
Pantoro has extended its drilling programs across multiple zones at Scotia as the real potential of the area has become clear. To date Pantoro has only completed exploration drilling outside of our resource development and extension activities at Panda and the Sailfish prospect on Lake Cowan. Both areas have produced outstanding results demonstrating the great potential for ongoing discovery at Norseman.”

A 36 METRE THICK ZONE OF SHALLOW GOLD MINERALISATION, INCLUDING 20m @ 2.3g/t gold from 64m.
Four-metre composite samples assay received for the first two RC drill holes targeting shallow gold mineralisation south of the historic Lord Nelson pit have been received, with gold mineralisation intersected in both drill holes.
Assay results include:

36m @ 1.6 g/t gold from 48m (SRC183) incl. 20m @ 2.3 g/t gold from 64m
4m @ 4.1 g/t gold from 112m (SRC182)

Managing Director, Matthew Bowles commented:
“These latest results from RC drilling 200m south of the Lord Nelson pit, confirm a new repeat lode of shallow gold mineralisation, up to 36 metres thick, which remains open along strike and down plunge. The mineralisation style of this new lode is the same as that of the Lord Nelson deposit and highlights the potential for a series of repeat lodes along the structural corridor that have never been systematically tested.
We see so much potential at Lord Nelson with high grade gold intersections in oxide, transitional and primary zones now extending the gold mineralisation footprint to over 870m. These results continue to highlight the presence of a large scale mineralised gold system, within the regional Edale Shear zone.”

Explorer and aspiring gold developer, Middle Island Resources Limited announced today updated resource estimates have been completed for the Shillington (including Shillington North) and Wirraminna gold deposits within the Company’s wholly-owned Sandstone gold project in the central goldfields of WA. The updated estimates follow completion of limited infill and extension drilling undertaken as part of the +30,000m 2020 exploration and resource definition drilling campaign at Sandstone.
The drilling, which is on-going, is exclusively focussed on the definition of additional open pit Mineral Resources prior to their inclusion for assessment as Ore Reserves in the project’s 2020 feasibility study (FS).
Managing Director, Mr Rick Yeates said“An increase of 27,800oz (or 52%) at the Shillington deposit is an extremely pleasing start in the Company’s plan to increase open pit Mineral Resources contributing to the FS.
 “Limited additional RC and diamond drilling is planned at Shillington to address two small areas still classified as Inferred that are anticipated to fall within the optimum FS pit. “The updated Shillington and Wirraminna open pit deposits will now be re-optimised to determine the Mineral Resource likely to contribute to the FS, the outcome of which is looking increasingly positive.
“The Two Mile Hill open pit Mineral Resource is in the process of being updated, and we look forward to providing that information in the very near future. Resource estimates for all remaining deposits (old and new) will be progressively provided as results from the Phase 2 drilling campaign are received and compiled.”

Genesis Minerals Limited announced today that a major new drilling program has commenced at its 100%-owned Ulysses Gold Project in Western Australia, focusing on the recently acquired Kookynie tenement package. The drilling program, which will continue over the remainder of CY2020, will comprise a combination of Resource definition and expansion drilling along the Ulysses to Orient Well corridor.
Results from this program will feed into a Feasibility Study on the development of a significant standalone gold operation at Ulysses, with ore to be sourced from a combination of known underground and open pit Resources. Genesis is targeting completion of this Feasibility Study in the first quarter of CY2021.
Initial drilling will focus on approximately 1.8km of strike containing the Admiral, Clark and Butterfly Resources (Figures 1 and 2), which are estimated to total 4.6Mt @ 1.7g/t gold for 246,000 ounces. Drilling will include Resource confirmation and strike and dip extensional drilling in both structural orientations. Exploration drilling targeting repeat structures will also be completed following pit mapping, further structural interpretation and 3D modelling.
Genesis Managing Director, Michael Fowler, said: “This is a hugely exciting program for Genesis, providing our first opportunity to test the highly prospective mineralised corridor that lies between our flagship Ulysses deposit and the Orient Well deposit, which lies roughly 15km to the south-east.
This corridor has been shown to be highly mineralised, with current Resources of 1.28 million ounces over five deposits and some exceptional targets for growth. We believe there is very strong opportunity to significantly expand our current Resource base to underpin a long-life, standalone mining operation at Ulysses.
Drilling is currently underway with one RC rig already up on site, and a diamond rig and second RC rig expected to arrive in the next month.
We will also be undertaking air-core drilling on a campaign basis over the rest of the year. This should deliver a steady stream of news-flow for Genesis over the coming months, ahead of the planned delivery of an updated Mineral Resource and Feasibility Study for the standalone Ulysses Project in the first quarter of CY2021."