Drilling is underway at Falcon Metals’ fancied Viking gold project in Western Australia, with a reverse circulation (RC) drill program targeting extensions to existing gold intercepts.
Located 30km southeast of Norseman in the Albany Fraser province, Viking is untested at depth, with historical exploration returning numerous high-grade shallow intercepts in aircore and limited RC/diamond drilling.
Falcon has appointed WA-based Strike Drilling to undertake the RC drilling campaign, which will initially comprise approximately 1600m. The contractor mobilised to Viking last week and commenced drilling on the weekend.
Strike will target down dip and potential down-plunge extensions to the previous high-grade intercepts.
Historical results include:
- 5m at 44.5g/t gold from 50m
- 4m at 15.4g/t gold from 40m
- 3m at 8.2g/t gold from 40m
- 3m at 15.3g/t gold from 28m.
In recent months, Falcon has been focused on exploring its Karri and Ironbark prospects within the Pyramid Hill gold project in Victoria.
Located in the same region as Agnico Eagle’s Tier-1 Fosterville gold mine, Pyramid Hill spans more than 5000 square kilometres of licences and sees Falcon hold the largest exploration holding of any company in this prospective region.
Falcon managing director Tim Markwell said commencing Viking’s first drill program was a significant milestone in the company’s short history.
“The company is now progressing exploration activities in Victoria as well as Western Australia for the first time, having already completed highly encouraging aircore and diamond drilling programs at our Victorian Pyramid Hill gold project,” he said.
Falcon expects the Viking drill program to take several weeks, with assays expected within 2–3 months.
Chalice Mining completed its demerger of Falcon Metals in December 2021 as it looked to prioritise its Julimar nickel-copper-platinum group elements (PGE) project in WA.