EMU recommences drilling at Gnows Nest Project Yalgoo WA
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EMU Recommences Drilling at Gnows Nest Project, Yalgoo, WA
Targeting High Grade Gold Extensions
23 August 2021
HIGHLIGHTS
EMU to commence a 6,500m Phase 2 drilling programme at the Gnows Nest project
at Yalgoo, WA to follow-up the highly successful maiden drilling programme
completed earlier in the year
Programme to test the depth extensions of the two plunging high-grade ore shoots at
the historic Gnows Nest Gold Mine
Further drilling planned at Monte Cristo to extend the new gold discovery along strike
and at depth
Several other targets to be tested including a new interpreted mineralised zone at
Watertank Hill located between the Monte Cristo discovery and Gnows Nest Mine
Soil geochemistry programme completed over Monte Cristo and Watertank Hill trend
with assay results pending
Emu NL (EMU or the Company, ASX:EMU) is pleased to advise that a 6,500m reverse circulation
(RC) drilling programme will commence at the Gnows Nest project near Yalgoo WA this week.
The programme has been designed as a follow-up to the highly successful 10,932m maiden RC
drilling programme completed in February 2021. Drilling will focus on Gnows Nest Deeps,
Monte Cristo extensions and a new zone of significant interest at Watertank Hill.
Watertank Hill
The Watertank Hill prospect area is approximately 800m to the southeast of Monte Cristo
following the main structural trend of the Yalgoo Greenstone Belt. The target area is highlighted
by a prominent structural flexure in the greenstone belt clearly identifiable in the
aeromagnetics imagery (see target location in Fig 1) and the presence of two distinct areas of
historical mine workings. Watertank Hill has been flagged as a priority target by EMU’s in-house
technical team and independently confirmed by its consultant geophysicist (Resource
Potentials) and geochemist (Sugden Geoscience).
Watertank Hill has received little systematic exploration over the past 40 years as the lease
area has largely been held and explored by prospectors for surface (colluvial) gold. EMU
anticipates the planned drilling, which targets mineralisation below the historic workings zones,
will add significant knowledge to the understanding of the controls to mineralisation in what is
a “look-alike” setting to Monte Cristo.
Gnows Nest Gold Mine
EMU’s first drilling programme at the Gnows Nest Gold Mine was designed to test for
extensions to the known high-grade gold lode system at the historic mine and to better
understand the controls of the gold mineralisation within the north-south trending host shear.
The programme was highly successful in defining two high-grade plunging ore shoots
associated with quartz veins of variable width within the shear.
EMU’s Phase 2 programme has been planned to drill the shoots to vertical depths of up to
250m, well below the extent of the historical mine workings. An initial six drill holes are planned
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to intercept the steeply west-dipping main vein at depth. The drilling will also test for possible
repeat structures and en-echelon veining to the main vein system.
Monte Cristo
EMU’s maiden drilling programme at Monte Cristo confirmed the discovery of a high grade gold
lode in shear hosted quartz veins, which remains open to the northwest and southeast along
the main trend of the greenstone belt, and at depth.
The Phase 2 drilling programme will test the strike and depth extensions of Monte Cristo, and
several other targets along the western margin of the greenstone belt to the northwest and
southeast of Monte Cristo highlighted from a review of the historic surface geochemistry by
Sugden Geoscience.
Soil Geochemistry and Mapping
EMU recently completed a geological mapping and soil sampling geochemistry programme to
further define prospective areas along the Yalgoo Greenstone Belt in the central portion of the
Gnows Nest project tenements. This survey grid corresponds to the main structural flexure
zone linked to the gold mineralisation at Monte Cristo and Watertank Hill.
A portion (split) of each sample was retained for in-house qualitative pXRF analysis allowing
multi-element trends to be delineated within the grid area. All soil samples have subsequently
been dispatched to ALS laboratories for quantitative multi-element analysis to assist in the
definition of pathfinder element distributions vectoring towards potential new gold hot-spots.
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Fig 1 – Location map of phase-2 drilling targets overlain on aeromagnetics (TMI)
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COMPETENT PERSON’S STATEMENT
Emu NL
ABN 50 127 291 927
ASX Codes: EMU and EMUCA
10 Walker Ave
West Perth, WA 6005
T +61 8 9226 4266
E info@emunl.com.au
PO Box 1112
West Perth, WA 6872
Fully paid shares (listed)
456,514,484 (including 18.6m which EMU can buy
back for nil consideration)
Contributing Shares (listed)
40,485,069 paid to $0.03, $0.03 to pay, no call
before 31/12/2023
Options (unlisted)
38,125,953 options to acquire fully paid shares,
exercisable at $0.15 each, on or before 23 August
2021
22,000,000 options to acquire partly paid shares,
exercisable at $0.03 each, on or before
21 December 2021
Performance Rights (Unlisted)
48,571,429 performance rights in relation to
acquisition of Gnows Nest project
Directors:
Peter Thomas
Non-Executive Chairman
Terry Streeter
Non-Executive Director
Gavin Rutherford
Non-Executive Director
The information in this report that relates to
exploration results is based on, and fairly
represents
information
and
supporting
documentation prepared by Francisco Montes, a
Competent Person who is a Member of the
Australian Institute of Geoscientists. Mr Montes
is an employee of Emu NL and has sufficient
experience in 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”. Mr Montes
consents to the inclusion herein of the matters
based upon his information in the form and
context in which it appears.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
As a result of a variety of risks, uncertainties and
other factors, actual events and results may
differ materially from any forward looking and
other statements herein not purporting to be of
historical fact. Any statements concerning
mining reserves, resources and exploration
results are forward looking in that they involve
estimates based on assumptions. Forward
looking statements are based on management’s
beliefs, opinions and estimates as of the
respective dates they are made. The Company
does not assume any obligation to update
forward looking statements even where beliefs,
opinions and estimates change or should do so
given changed circumstances and developments.
Tim Staermose
Non-Executive Director
Investor enquiries:
Doug Grewar CEO
T +61 8 9226 4266
M +61 419833604
E info@emunl.com.au
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