Progress for De Grey at Turner River

De Grey Mining has completed a 1,583m reverse circulation drill program at its....

  De Grey Mining has completed a 1,583m reverse circulation drill program at its Turner River Project, 60km south of Port Hedland.The purpose of this program was to provide pre-collars for the important diamond drilling now in progress at the Orchard Tank Prospect, as well as testing a number of other volcanogenic massive sulphide-style (VMS) exploration targets.These VMS targets included a zinc-silver-lead-gold-copper anomalism up to 21m at 2.05% zinc, 46g/t silver, 1.10% lead and 0.37g/t gold in WARC064, recently identified at the Hakea Prospect, and a new zone of zinc-silver-lead anomalism from recent Aircore drilling located 200m to the south of the Tabba 1 Gossan. De Grey has dispatched samples from the reverse circulation drilling program to the laboratory and assays are awaited. According to the company, progress on the planned eight hole 1,400m diamond drilling program has been hampered by a lengthy rig breakdown, with only two holes and 440m of drilling completed to date. However drilling is now underway on double shift operation, with good production rates achieved over the last few days. De Grey’s aim with this diamond drill program is to advance its understanding of the mineralisation at Orchard Tank by infilling the main volcanogenic massive sulphide mineralised zone, as well as to test VMS mineralisation previously identified by reverse circulation drilling at Tabba Tabba and to test geophysical anomalies identified by VTEM and IP surveys on the Orchard Well tenement. De Grey’s Managing Director, Darren Townsend said: “We have now stepped up the pace of diamond drilling after delays beyond our control from Cyclone George and drill rig availability. We look forward to completing this important drilling program over the coming weeks.”