Breakaway Resources drilling at its 19 Mile North Target in the Leinster District has encountered similar rock types to known nickel deposits within the Leinster District.
High MgO ultramafics were intercepted at broad downhole widths in three of the five holes drilled at the 19 Mile North Target in the Leinster District. In addition, drilling has also identified a Nickel PGE anomalism with a new DHTEM off hole conductor at the Bakers Target at the southern end of the Mt Clifford Project.
Significantly, the drill holes represent the first deep nickel focussed test of the area and the new information will greatly assist in refining the area’s current geological model and will underpin the reassessment of surface EM data acquired by Breakaway in 2010.
Drilling at the targets within the company's priority Leinster District in Western Australia are south along strike from Xstrata’s Cosmos nickel deposits.
As well as reinforcing the prospectivity of the 19 Mile North and Bakers Targets, the drill program effectively highlights the priority areas for future nickel exploration within Breakaway’s Wildara Project Group and Miranda Project.
The results of reverse circulation and diamond drilling program at 19 Mile North which lies at the northern end of the Miranda Project, are significant given that the majority of the known nickel sulphide deposits within the Leinster District are intimately associated with the same high MgO ultramafic rock types. The target lies within the interpreted southern extension of the Mt Goode Ultramafic Belt which hosts the Cosmos Nickel Deposits about 15 kilometers to the north.
Drilling at the Bakers Target located at the southern end of the Mt Clifford Project also intersected nickel PGE anomalism within a prospective high MgO ultramafic. This ultramafic is interpreted to be the southern extension of the Roadside Ultramafic Belt which hosts Breakaway’s Horn Nickel Deposit further to the north.
Highlights from vein, breccia and stringer sulphides sampling within the drillholes include:
1. 4.33 meters 0.37%Ni, 0.12%Cu, 161ppbPt+Pd from 246.00 meters and
2. 0.38 meter 0.44%Ni, 0.16%Cu, 81ppbPt+Pd from 280.95 meters.
Follow up downhole TEM surveying of the Bakers drillholes also identified a new offhole conductor which may require further drill testing. Two diamond holes were also drilled to test historic surface EM conductors at the Glenoran and Jezebel Targets, which are located in the western and north-eastern part of the Wildara Project Group respectively.
The Jezebel Target lies within the Yillaree Joint Venture in which Breakaway’s partner, Hampton Hill Mining. Despite both holes intersecting broad widths of stringer, vein and disseminated sulphides within and adjacent to favorable ultramafic lithologies no significant results were returned.
Mr David Hutton MD of Breakaway said that the confirmation of prospective ultramafic rock types at 19 Mile North reinforced the company’s strong confidence in the area’s prospectivity. It is our belief that the area represents the southern extension of the Mt Goode Ultramafic Belt which hosts Xstrata’s Cosmos Nickel Deposits further to the north and further highlights the area as one of the most exciting nickel target areas within the Leinster District.”
(Sourced from www.proactiveinvestors.com.au)
