Alien Metals reported further high-grade silver and base metals mineralisation intersected at its Elizabeth Hill silver project in the Pilbara region in Western Australia.
The company highlighted its findings in the results from its inaugural drilling programme at the Pilbara project, which consisted of diamond and Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling for 1,991 metres in total.
Alien Metals said its findings came from the 15 RC drill holes executed over its second phase of the inaugural drilling scheme, which built on the results of its first phase released on 27 January 2022.
The mining group noted eight metres at 4,233g/t in silver from 66 metres in drillhole AMEHRC009 and two metres at 1,550g/t in silver from 108 metres in drillhole AMEHRCO12, which the company said represented a potential new mineralised zone 400 metres south of the Elizabeth Hill mine along the Munni Munni Fault.
Alien Metals also confirmed its discovery of 0.19% copper at 24 metres, 0.17% nickel and 150g/t in cobalt from its AMERHRC005 drillhole, along with 8 metres at 0.83% lead and 0.13% zinc from 48 metres.
The company further highlighted 4 metres at 1.35% lead and 0.2% zinc based in the drillhole, and 26 metres at 0.48% lead from 8 metres including 6 metres at 1.95% lead in its AMEHRC006 drillhole.
Alien Metals clarified that interpretation of its results were ongoing, however, the initial results suggested a potential repeat of the Elizabeth Hill deposit along the Munni Munni fault.
The mining firm said it was planning for follow-up drilling to run additional tests for the potential repeat mineralisation and the larger envelope at Elizabeth Hill.
“The final assay results provide further confirmation of the exceptionally high-grade tenor of the silver mineralisation at Elizabeth Hill, with additional excellent intersections within the historic orebo dy,” said Alien Metals CEO Bill Brodie Good.
“The intersection within hole AMEHRC0012, which was drilled on the south of the orebody, is significant as it encountered high-grade mineralisation at a depth where we always thought there might be a possible repetition of the Elizabeth Hill silver orebody.”
“It is also encouraging to see the presence of wide intersections of base metals in the eastern mafic units which run parallel to the Elizabeth Hill silver deposit in the final batch of assay results.”
“This may present as significant base metals VMS style target. The Company is currently working with our technical consultants to gain a better understanding of this target ahead of a follow-up exploration programme.”