Westar Resources : acquires historical high-grade Birrigin Mining Centre at Gidgee South in Western Australia

Planning is underway to begin exploration immediately with drilling set to kick-off at Gidgee South.

Westar Resources Ltd (ASX: WSR) has completed negotiations to facilitate becoming 100% beneficial owner of the historical Birrigrin Mining Centre, adjoining its Gidgee South Gold Project in Western Australia.

This means the outright purchase of Birrigrin has been completed from a private consortium of prospectors for A$80,000.

There are no ongoing obligations or royalty payments between Westar and the vendors and M57/352 is unencumbered.

Birrigrin provides contiguous tenure and further enhances the prospectivity of Westar's Gidgee South Gold Project.

The asset has been held by the vendors since 1994 with no modern or systematic exploration conducted during this time.

Planning is underway to begin exploration immediately with drilling to commence at Gidgee South imminently.

'Unique and synergistic opportunity'

WSR managing director Karl Jupp said: 'The exceptional historic gold grades reported from Birrigrin, combined with a lack of modern exploration, provides a unique and synergistic opportunity to consolidate Westar's holding in the area and build on the exciting potential of the Gidgee South Gold Project.

'Westar's geology team are immediately progressing exploration plans at Birrigrin in additional to final preparations for the maiden RC drilling program at Gidgee South, which will test multiple high-priority targets.'

The Birrigrin Mining Centre consists of a single mining tenement, M57/352, adjoins Westar's Gidgee South exploration lease 57/1055 and hosts a number of historic gold mines that have recorded extremely high-grade gold production.

Overview

Many of the historic workings were developed around surface quartz veining, known to be up to several metres wide.

Depth of the shafts is highly variable but known to be largely dependent on the ability to dewater once the water table was reached.

The area defined under M57/352 comprises 113.6 hectares, having been originally marked out in 1992 and held by the vendors or related parties since 1994.

Activities have been limited to prospecting for surface and alluvial gold, with no modern or systematic exploration conducted during this time.

Further exploration

Westar is investigating various methodologies to rapidly advance exploration activities at Birrigrin, including a possible Deep Ground Penetrating Radar (DGPR) Survey to define the historic workings and possible gold-bearing quartz reefs within 100 metres of the ground surface.

Pending the timing of the DGPR and drill rig availability, Westar will assess expediting RC drilling at the Birrigrin Mining Centre in conjunction with the maiden RC drill program at Gidgee South.

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