Western Gold Resources announced the commencement of a RC exploration drilling program at the Gold Duke Project. Drilling at the Gold Duke Project is expected to take 2 weeks with first assay results due in mid-January 2022. Two prospects are planned to be drilled, Top Knot and Kingfisher North.

Top Knot: The Top Knot prospect is located on the Joyner Find Shear Zone and contains numerous shallow historic shafts hosted within a package of intercalated ultramafic and chert rocks. The drilling will test co-incident targets previously generated from a Sub-Audio Magnetics (SAM) survey and soil geochemistry. A total of 17 holes are planned to target the intersection of NNE-trending faults and the JFSZ, interpretated to control mineralisation at the Top Knot prospect.

North Kingfisher: The Kingfisher North prospect is concealed under the Proterozoic Finlayson Member, a fine-to medium-grained, well-bedded arenite, with thin conglomerate intervals. Thirty-five RC drillholes are planned testing interpreted intrusive and fault splays of the Brilliant and Joyners Shear Zones. The prospect has had no previous drilling.

WGR believe the prospect is highly prospective for both Au and Au-Cu mineralisation with copper intersected in RC drilling at the Brilliant deposit to the south. The drilling at Kingfisher is co-funded by the WA Government EIS drilling grant of $118,500.