Thor Mining PLC Dundas Gold Project- Commencement of Drill Program (0689I)
June 14 2017 - 6:03AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMTHR
RNS Number : 0689I
Thor Mining PLC
14 June 2017
14 June 2017
THOR MINING PLC
DUNDAS GOLD PROJECT - WESTERN AUSTRALIA
COMMENCEMENT OF BEDROCK GEOCHEMISTRY DRILL PROGRAM
The Directors of Thor Mining PLC ("Thor" or the "Company") (AIM,
ASX: THR), are pleased to advise that bedrock geochemistry drilling
has commenced at the Dundas Project in southern Western
Australia.
Mr Mick Billing, Executive Chairman of Thor: "The Albany-Fraser
belt in Western Australia hosts a number of gold deposits,
including the >8million ounce Tropicana deposit north of Dundas,
which was discovered after drilling weakly elevated gold anomalism.
The alluvial cover at Dundas can be 30 metres thick, thereby
masking or diluting any potential surface anomalism. By drilling
into the top of bedrock, we hope to intersect stronger values of
gold and other indicator minerals which would significantly elevate
this project."
Figure 1: Albany Fraser Belt Showing Dundas Location
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Gold Targets
The program is designed to test two northwest - southeast
trending zones of elevated gold in calcrete identified from a BHP
geochemistry survey conducted in the 1990's. The two zones, named
Algron and Bifrost (Figure 2), extend over five kilometres trend
parallel to the regional aeromagnetic response.
Figure 2: Calcrete Geochemistry Results
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Drill Program
The drill program will comprise 50 air-core holes to test the
bedrock geochemistry beneath the six best surface calcrete
geochemistry results to determine if the elevated gold values at
the ground surface represent mineralisation in the underlying
bedrock.
The program is a second exploratory phase where a successful
outcome would be the intersection of elevated indicator elements
such as arsenic, copper or possibly gold measured in parts per
billion. A direct hit on potentially economic grades of
mineralisation is possible but not expected for a successful
program outcome. If successful, follow up deeper reverse
circulation drilling will be scheduled to test for potentially
economic grades.
The program should take approximately 10 days with assays
results within four weeks.
About the Dundas Project
The Thor Dundas Project is situated in Western Australia within
the Albany-Fraser Province. The project tenement is situated in the
prospective Albany-Fraser belt (Figure. 3) where the trend of the
belt is displaced south-eastwards by about 50km co-incident with
the general strike-extension of the most prolific gold-bearing belt
of the Yilgarn Province - the Wiluna-Kalgoorlie-Norseman greenstone
belt. The Albany-Fraser belt hosts a number of gold discoveries
including the +8 million ounce Tropicana gold deposit, and other
closer discoveries.
Thor Mining holds 60% equity in the Dundas project along with
rights to increase that equity to 100%.
Enquiries:
Mick Billing +61 (8) 7324 Thor Mining Executive
1935 PLC Chairman
Ray Ridge +61 (8) 7324 Thor Mining CFO/Company
1935 PLC Secretary
Colin Aaronson/ +44 (0) 207 383 Grant Thornton Nominated
Daniel Bush/ 5100 UK LLP Adviser
Richard Tonthat
Elliot Hance +44 (0) 207382 Beaufort Securities Joint Broker
8300 Limited
Nick Emerson +44 (0) 1483 SI Capital Ltd Joint Broker
/ Andy Thacker 413 500
Tim Blythe/ +44 (0) 207 138 Blytheweigh Financial
Camilla Horsfall 3222 PR
Updates on the Company's activities are regularly posted on
Thor's website www.thormining.com, which includes a facility to
register to receive these updates by email, and on the Company's
twitter page @ThorMining.
Competent Person's Report
The information in this report that relates to exploration
results and exploration targets is based on information compiled by
Richard Bradey, who holds a BSc in applied geology and an MSc in
natural resource management and who is a Member of The Australasian
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Bradey is an employee of
Thor Mining PLC. He has sufficient experience which is relevant to
the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration
and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a
Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the
'Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral
Resources and Ore Reserves'. Richard Bradey consents to the
inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in
the form and context in which it appears.
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