Arika commences mobilisation for drilling at WA gold projects

Arika Resources has begun mobilisation successful mentation for a 20,000m-plus drilling run astatine its wholly owned Yundamindra and Kookynie golden projects successful Western Australia's (WA) Leonora-Laverton region.

The institution expects drilling to commencement successful the coming weeks, with archetypal efforts focused connected the Cosmopolitan, Altona and Ithaca prospects astatine Kookynie.

These sites person been chosen pursuing caller method studies that identified high-grade extensions and caller find opportunities.

Recent geological interpretations and people procreation studies person identified further drill targets wrong the Kookynie Gold Project area, expanding the scope for imaginable discoveries. Additional ungraded sampling is nether mode arsenic portion of these efforts.

Planned drilling astatine the Yundamindra Gold Project volition resume astatine the high-priority Pennyweight Point and Landed astatine Last prospects.

According to the company, this volition physique connected the 14,752m of drilling that concluded betwixt January and June this twelvemonth and enactment advancement towards a maiden mineral assets estimate.

Soil geochemistry surveys person precocious concluded astatine the Emerald City people country wrong Yundamindra.

Results from these surveys are expected to assistance successful refining drill targets for an archetypal drilling programme planned for aboriginal successful the year.

Preliminary metallurgical leach investigating has started connected mineralised worldly from Yundamindra.

The institution intends this enactment to supply an archetypal appraisal of golden betterment characteristics and pass aboriginal improvement studies.

Arika managing manager Justin Barton said: "Arika is present entering the astir progressive exploration play successful the company's history, gathering connected the outstanding occurrence of our drilling programmes truthful acold this year, which saw Arika drill astir 15,000m of RC [reverse circulation] drilling crossed 100 holes astatine the Yundamindra Project.

"Over the coming months we volition person aggregate drilling programmes operating crossed some Kookynie and Yundamindra, targeting extensions to existing high-grade discoveries portion besides investigating respective breathtaking caller targets for the archetypal time."

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