MINING REFINING

Westgold eyes production with 547g/t Mid West gold hit

Mon May 06 2024

Westgold Resources has its sights set on production at its Great Fingall project in Western Australia’s Mid West region as soon as next financial year after a 3.03m hit at a “spectacular” 547 grams per tonne gold from 205m at its Fingall Flats target.

Importantly, the latest high-grade results extend the Fingall Flats lodes below its previously interpreted base, with the company pointing out there are a large volume of assays from its latest drill campaign still to come. Fingall Flats is a relatively flat-orientated mineralised quartz reef located in the footwall of the historic, steeply-dipping Great Fingall reef that produced 1.2 million gold ounces at the turn of past century.

Management says a comprehensive drill-out of the shallow areas of Great Fingall has been ongoing since the start of the year, with the campaign focused on Sovereign Reef resource definition between Great Fingall and Golden Crown.

Both the Golden Crown and Great Fingall mines, which are separated by about 700m along the Great Fingall dolerite, have hosted significant historic production, with more than 1.55 million ounces of gold mined there since the late 1800s.

Source: https://thewest.com.au