A rock chip sampling program has returned outstanding high-grade gold assays at Argent Minerals’ Trunkey Creek gold project in New South Wales.
February 2025 sampling has confirmed the presence of bonanza-grade gold mineralisation at the site, with several notable high-grade results, including 1930g/t gold in sample 3001429, 82.7g/t gold in sample 3001464, and 82.1g/t gold in sample 3001379.
Other samples returned grades of:
- 67.6 g/t gold in sample 3001377
- 48.8 g/t gold in sample 3001431
- 41.8 g/t gold in sample 3001449
“We are extremely pleased to observe visible gold in rock chips at the Trunkey Creek project as this confirms the extremely high-grade nature of the gold mineralisation previously mined,” Argent Minerals director Pedro Kastellorizos said.
“To date, the mullock dump sampling has confirmed the waste material left behind is over 82g/t gold around historical mine workings.
“The detailed ground IP (induced polarisation) interpretation has clearly defined extensive high resistivity zones (potential quartz veins) and chargeability zones (potential sulphides) which have excellent potential for hosting gold mineralisation.”
The Trunkey Creek mineral field, which is located roughly 38km southwest of Bathurst, extends over 5.5km in length and 500m in width, with historical gold production of over 2900 ounces of gold.
The area was first discovered in 1851 and was worked from 1852 to 1880 and then again from 1887 to 1908.
Recent re-interpretation of historical IP traverse at Trunkey Creek has identified chargeable and resistive anomalies that further support the presence of quartz veins and sulphide gold mineralisation.
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