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Below is a technical summary of assays received and the diamond drilling completed at the Mawson Ni-Cu-Co prospect since the ASX Announcement
The evolving understanding of the Mawson structural architecture has resulted in the potential identification of trap sites for massive Ni-Cu sulphide accumulations in this north-east zone. The 3D model driving predictive exploration at Mawson continues to evolve with new data and continues to be very accurate as a predictive tool for targeting interpreted fertile intrusion. The updated 3D constrained gravity model at this stage appears to have a high correlation for mineralised intrusion. To date, the mineralised intrusive footprint at Mawson extends over 1.4km in strike length, with the gravity model suggesting the intrusion extends over 3km in strike length. Ongoing drilling across Mawson will focus on continued definition of these mineralised intrusive bodies and targeting of structural trap sites for massive Ni-Cu sulphide accumulation.
Section 6,599,000mN
Diamond drillhole RKDD065 was completed 200m east of RKDD042, designed to extend the mineralised chonolith to the interpreted eastern margin of the Mawson intrusion. The drillhole also provided a point location test of a series of complex DHTEM and MLTEM conductors interpreted to be the D3 stratigraphic conductor. RKDD065 encountered a dominantly mafic sequence with minor interleaved ultramafic zones of the chonolith below a metasedimentary hanging wall sequence of meta-pelite before entering a variably mineralised intrusive, dominantly ultramafic, from 280.36m to 391.56m downhole. The hole then entered the footwall sequence of recrystallised mafic intrusives before finishing in a faulted metasedimentary package including graphitic and sulphidic zones to end of hole at 554.2m.
The graphitic and sulphidic zones are interpreted to represent a complex set of EM conductors associated with stratigraphic conductor D3. The mineralised intrusion in close proximity to these complex conductors confirms the current working model at Mawson that Ni-Cu sulphide mineralisation can be masked in the EM shadow of these highly conductive stratigraphic features
Diamond drillhole RKDD064 has been completed 400m east of RKDD044. Drilling continues to target the interpreted northern extension of the Mawson chonolith with RKDD064 designed to extend the mineralised chonolith to the interpreted eastern margin of the Mawson intrusion on this section. The drillhole also provided a point location test of a series of complex DHTEM and MLTEM conductors interpreted to be the D3 stratigraphic conductor. RKDD064 intersected a series of thick ultramafic units bounded by thin units of mafic interpreted to be a significant thickening of the ultramafic chonolith core. The chonolith is over 400m in vertical thickness in RKDD064, with the dominantly ultramafic component being the thickest intersection to date at Mawson. The chonolith finished at 406.84m downhole, where the drilllhole entered a complex zone of interleaved graphitic metasediments, amphibolites, and small mafic intrusions to 624.5m.
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