Having completed drilling at its Antimony Reward project, Iltani Resources is now turning its gaze to the Orient project located just down the road.
The Orient project initially captured attention for its high-grade silver-indium potential, with recent achievements including the intersection of a 900m-long silver-indium zone in July and a 420 grams per tonne (g/t) silver equivalent (AgEq) hit in August.
Now, Iltani is carrying out follow-up reverse circulation drilling at the Orient East prospect, where five of 22 holes have been completed for 742m drilled.
The company has sent the first batch of Orient East drill samples to the assay lab, with results expected in four-to-six weeks.
“It is great to be drilling at Orient again, and the planned drilling at Orient East will give us a better understanding of the potential at Orient East, building on what we already have defined at Orient West,” Iltani managing director Donald Garner said.
“We are targeting the area at Orient East where we have previously intersected extensive high-grade mineralisation, notably 41m at 107.7g/t AgEq from 39m, including 5m at 346.1g/t AgEq from 59m at ORR003 and 38m at 190.4g/t AgEq from 19m, including 7m at 454.9g/t AgEq from 27min at ORR001.”
Iltani has dispatched 236 samples from Antimony Reward to the assay lab after the company completed seven drill holes for 683m at the Southern Vein system. This formed part of a larger 15-hole campaign for 1395m.
Iltani is also expecting results from these assays to return in four-to-six weeks.
Drilling at Antimony Reward followed a mapping and sampling program targeting two vein systems. The first system produced an average assay result of 16.2 per cent antimony, with a maximum result of 46.5 per cent, while the second returned an average of 10.9 per cent antimony, peaking at 17.7 per cent.
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