Sabre Resources hits massive sulphides in latest Sherlock Bay drill run
Company moving ahead with new drill plan to continue testing area at depth; 3D model on the way
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KEY POINTS
- Sabre has hit a 40m thick zone of sulphide mineralisation; company planning new drill run to further test zone at depth
- Result comes from third diamond drill hole retrieved from WA Sherlock Bay nickel-cobalt-copper project
- At depth, there is a 10m thick section of massive sulphides, early-stage evidence nickel and copper may be present
Sabre Resources (ASX:SBR) has had success in its third diamond drill hole at the company’s WA Sherlock Bay project, encountering massive sulphide mineralisation at depth and sulphide mineralisation throughout the larger core.
The sulphide zone occurs in a location on-site with similar geology to that of the Nova deposit owned by IGO (ASX:IGO) and Azure Minerals’ (ASX:AZS) Andover play, giving Sabre’s exploration team confidence the early stage results may pose promising hits once assays are received.
Sabre has already moved the drill rig to commencement of the fourth hole on-site in a drill run partially backed by the WA Government’s exploration support fund.
Assays for the first three holes, including today’s, are currently at the assay laboratory, with results due in the coming weeks or months. Long delays at assay laboratories have led to long wait times for some companies.
New nickel-copper sulphide discovery
“The intersection of massive sulphides and matrix-breccia and stringer sulphides in the previously identified C3 conductor position has confirmed a new sulphide discovery at Sherlock,” Sabre Resources CEO Jon Dugdale said.
“The new sulphide zone below the western, Discovery end of the existing resource is open to the east, west, and at depth.”
The company is already planning a follow-up drilling program once the fourth and last hole of our latest WA Government co-funded program is completed.
The company plans to test below the Symonds zone at the eastern end of what is already a substantial sulphide resource.
Works ahead
The company notes modelling of the C3 conductor, identified downhole drillhole SBDD003A in an electromagnetic scan, remains ongoing.
Sabre adds “it is already clear the newly discovered massive sulphide zone continues to the at depth where further drilling is now being planned.”
A look at cores pulled from Sherlock Bay in the most recent drill run
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