Traka Resources Limited have significantly upgraded the discovery potential within its 100%-owned Mt Cattlin Gold-Copper Project, located immediately adjacent to the Mt Cattlin lithium mine in the Ravensthorpe Greenstone Belt in south-west Western Australia. The results include potential extensions to the existing Mineral Resource at Sirdar, as well as the identification of three buried mineralised intrusives that sit below the existing drill targets but have never been tested by previous drilling. The Sirdar Prospect; Four RC drill holes were planned to test the down-plunge potential of the Sirdar Deposit (133,186t @ 3.40g/t Au) (1), but only one hole, RAGC088, reached its intended target due to very high ground-water flows.

A diamond drill-hole tail was added to RAGC090 to achieve target depth in a second position to ensure sufficient information was gathered for future drill planning; Drill-hole RAGC088 intersected mineralisation which appears to highlight a new mineralised hanging wall structure in a position consistent with the expected down-plunge extension of the Sirdar Mineral Resource; RAGC088 returned a peak intersection of 2m @ 2.59g/t Au including 1m @ 4.61g/t Au from 168m down-hole, with additional wide intercepts of lower-grade mineralisation above and below indicating an extensively mineralised zone (Table 1 and 2). A previously reported intersection of 1.65m @ 19.20g/t Au including 0.5m @ 47.90g/t Au on drillhole RAGD038(2) intersected this structure at depth. A reorientation of drilling would be required to test this structure in future.

Drillhole RAGD090 intersected gold-copper mineralisation in a number of positions down-plunge from the Sirdar Mineral Resource, with a peak intersection of 0.5m @ 3.04g/t Au and 0.21% Cu from 156m down-hole. The presence of disseminated fine grained sulphides, alteration and mineralisation in this position as well as up- and down-hole account for the IP (Induced Polarisation) geophysical anomaly and confirms that this target remains open at depth. The individual high-grade shoots that comprise the Sirdar Mineral Resource are relatively small features that will require the remaining drill pattern to be completed to properly evaluate the potential for extensions.

The newly-identified down-plunge extension and mineralised hanging wall structure remains open, with the opportunity to significantly increase the existing Mineral Resource through further drilling.