This program is expected to take approximately three months to complete.
The initial program will test a favourable gold corridor immediately north of Agnico Eagle's Fosterville mine lease in the Goornong area, where previous exploration identified a strongly mineralised corridor centred on the Goornong South prospect and drilling during the 1990's intersected significant oxide gold mineralisation. During the last year that the exploration licence was held by
S2 has relogged these holes to construct the stratigraphic and structural architecture of what is now interpreted to be the next parallel prospective structure to the east of the O'Dwyers and Fosterville trends, which host the orebodies being mined by Agnico Eagle.
This first drill program will test immediately beneath and down plunge to the south of the Goornong South oxide mineralisation, testing multiple structures where they cross the main anticline that is interpreted to be the focus for mineralised fluids. Along the favourable anticline corridor any mineralised structure could refract and flatten into a favourable orientation with the potential to form high-grade trap sites for Swan zone-style gold mineralisation (the
The strike parallel holes drilling down the axial plane will test multiple structural levels within the anticline corridor, where structures may refract into relatively flat positions across the hinge zone. Drilling will be angled northwards to provide the optimal intersection angle for south plunging shoots within the south plunging fold noses, and this will also enable core orientation for the detailed structural measurements which are vital to interpreting the three-dimensional fault-fold architecture, so that any near misses can be interpreted for later drill follow-up. Whilst the definition of gold mineralisation is a desired outcome of this drilling, the bigger picture objective is to better define the structural and stratigraphic architecture of the Goornong South trend, to define vectors to positions where otherwise insignificant structures have the potential to host significant mineralisation. An important focus for S2 is to gain an understanding of the area's overall potential for a large gold deposit without getting drawn into close spaced drilling of targets that may never deliver sufficient tonnages to be economic, and the planned drill holes are spaced accordingly. The drilling program will comprise a single rig operating primarily on a double-shift basis. It is expected that this first program will extend into
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