Torque kicks off fresh drill campaign in Goldfields

Torque Metals has restarted RC drilling at its flagship Paris gold project near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia as the company aims to test east and west extensions of recent discoveries along the Boulder-Lefroy fault zone.

Results from recent discoveries include a 27m intersection recording 8.2 grams per tonne gold from 156m including 6m at 22 g/t from 159m.

Torque says it is planning a 3000m campaign across its Paris, Paris South, Carreras and Pavarotti prospects to target anomalies identified from previous drilling, auger chemistry, historic soil and trench samples.

In addition to the heavily mineralised zone at the Paris prospect, four other prospective structures have been identified near the open pit where gold intervals exceed 5 g/t gold.

The current drill program will test two of the structures whilst first-pass drilling will focus on strong gold in soil geochemical anomalies at Carreras and Pavarotti.

Torque says its Paris gold project remains vastly underexplored with past drilling mainly restricted to the top 50m.

Paris lies along strike and in the same Boulder-Lefroy fault corridor as the 20 million-plus ounce gold-endowed Kalgoorlie Super Pit.

Several other behemoth gold lodes are also in the Boulder-Lefroy fault corridor, including the Paddington deposit that houses 11 million ounces of gold and the Kanowna Belle deposit hosting more than 7 million ounces gold.

Torque says a ground moving loop electromagnetic survey testing for conductive nickel sulphides at the site’s Domingo, Melchior and Melchior West prospects is nearing completion.

The company says its Melchior prospect has two airborne electromagnetic anomalies that resemble a similar anomaly found at Mincor Resources’ Cassini prospect about 25km to the west.

Cassini is a high-grade and large-scale underground nickel project containing a mineral resource of 1.5 million tonnes at 4 per cent nickel for 60,700t of contained nickel.

A survey line running west to Cassini shows a similar conductive anomaly to those at Paris.

The recently discovered Melchior West prospect was identified after further analysis of publicly available airborne electromagnetic data.

Historical drill holes at Domingo recorded near-surface nickel including results of an 8m intersection at 0.85 per cent nickel from 12m.

Last month Torque began drilling at its highly prospective Bullfinch gold project with a 1600m RC program underway at the company’s Withers Find prospect in WA’s Goldfields.

Torque says the prospect has recorded historical production of 1308 ounces of gold at 34.4 grams per tonne and has been identified through geophysical, geological and geochemical analysis as the prime Bullfinch target.

The Bullfinch tenements, about 40km north of Southern Cross, include more than 200 gold prospects outlined by high-grade surface sampling, small-scale mining and drilling east of the now-dormant Copperhead mine.

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