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RNS Number : 0046M  Greatland Gold PLC  25 April 2024

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NEWS RELEASE | 25 April 2024

 

 

Ernest Giles grant of Exploration Licence E38/3775

 

Secures access to a further 50km of highly prospective underexplored strike
extent

in the well endowed Eastern Goldfields

 

 

Greatland Gold plc (AIM:GGP) (Greatland or the Company) is pleased to announce
that it has been granted a new Exploration Licence E38/3775 (Mount Smith)
covering 555km(2) at the Ernest Giles Project (Ernest Giles).

 

Highlights

 

§ E38/3775 covers more than 50km of strike length of the highly prospective
Ernest Giles Yilgarn Craton Archean greenstone belt, with very limited
previous exploration

 

§ The existing land access agreement covers the new tenement and allows
on-ground activities this year as part of Greatland's broader Ernest Giles
Project program

 

§ Geologically, the complexity of the structure on the Mount Smith tenement
combined with favourable lithologies, makes it ideal for the formation of
structurally controlled orebodies as seen throughout the Eastern Goldfields

 

Greatland Managing Director, Shaun Day, commented:

 

"The granting of the Mount Smith tenement at our Ernest Giles prospect more
than doubles our exploration ground in the underexplored and highly
prospective Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.

 

"Ernest Giles has been a priority project for Greatland, and especially so
since agreeing land access last year. Accordingly, we are delighted to
increase the size and prospectivity of our ground there which enhances our
opportunity for a discovery at Ernest Giles.

 

"We are busy working on an updated Ernest Giles exploration program,
incorporating geophysical surveys at Mount Smith. Our intent is to commence a
substantial drilling program on the Meadows prospect at Ernest Giles in the
second half of this year."

 

Exploration Licence E38/3775 - Mount Smith

The newly granted Mount Smith tenement is within the Manta Rirrtinya native
title determination and is covered by the land access agreement signed by
Greatland with the Manta Rirrtinya Native Title Holders in September 2023.

 

The grant of Mount Smith gives renewed access((1)) to a further ~50km of
strike extent of the Ernest Giles Archean greenstone belt and structures. This
more than doubles the previous accessible strike length.

 

Mount Smith has historically very limited on-ground exploration, with only
four reverse circulation (RC) holes drilled throughout the entire 555km(2)
area. Three of these were logged as not reaching bedrock and therefore not
testing the target, while the depth of cover in the one effective hole was
logged as 369m.  No significant bedrock mineralisation was identified.

 

The highly magnetic interpreted banded iron sediments (BIF - first order
magnetic anomalies shown in Figure 1) within the Mount Smith tenement wrap
into a crustal scale fault on the eastern side of the tenement. This unit is
also disrupted by a large fault on the tenements western edge. Further
disruption and structural complexity displayed in the tenure including
potential isoclinal folding and/or thrust faulting has resulted in repetition
of the BIFs. Dilation zones and fluid pathways resulting from these events are
likely to be highly prospective for structurally controlled gold systems as
seen throughout the Eastern Goldfields.

 

Figure 1: E38/3775 - Mount Smith Geophysical Line interpretation on RTP
aeromagnetic and underlying greyscale 1VD

 

Figure 2: Ernest Giles regional Tenure on Satae 80m reduced to pole (RTP)
magnetics

Footnote (1): Greatland previously held near continuous application and
granted tenure over the area covered by E38/3775 since 2008, with granted
tenure held from 2009 to 2015 (E38/2204) and 2017 to 2020 (E38/3184). E38/2204
was relinquished at the end of its initial term, while E38/3184 was
relinquished following the native title determination of Manta Rirrtinya at
the end of 2018.

 

Planned work at Ernest Giles

At Mount Smith the intended work program for 2024 is to:

 

§ carry out on-ground reconnaissance to confirm access and assess cover
depth;

 

§ improve the geophysical interpretation focusing on identifying likely
dilational areas and fluid pathways; and

 

§ work with a geophysical consultant to plan and carry out a geophysical
survey to best confirm these targets prior to drilling.

 

At Ernest Giles more broadly, a ground based induced polarity (IP) electrical
survey testing for mineralisation related sulphide alteration and 5,000m of
infill drilling is planned targeting structural dilation zones and trap sites
in favourable lithologies at the Meadows prospect, commencing in H2 2024.

Overview of the Ernest Giles Project

 

The Ernest Giles Project is located approximately 250km north-east of the town
of Laverton and covers a folded belt of magnetic greenstone rocks typical of
the highly gold and nickel endowed Archean Eastern Goldfields of Western
Australia (Figure 2). The Eastern Goldfields host some of Australia's large
gold camps such as Kalgoorlie, Leonora, Laverton, Mt Magnet and Jundee. The
prospective greenstone sequence at Ernest Giles does not outcrop and, as a
consequence, is underexplored relative to the remainder of the Goldfields.

 

Within the Eastern Goldfields the average spacing of deposits with total
endowment of +1Moz Au, or +100Kt Ni is ~26km((2)).  The strike length
available to Greatland to explore prior to this release was 40km of the total
130km covered by Greatland leases and applications. With the grant of Mount
Smith this available strike length increases to 90km.

 

Figure 3: Ernest Giles Project location and Eastern Goldfields significant
Mines.

Footnote (2): The minimum nearest neighbour distance of the mines displayed in
Figure 2 was averaged. The mines were filtered by endowment data taken from
the S&P dataset. The nearest neighbour calculation was confirmed by
creating a 5km spaced grid of points within the Eastern Goldfields
greenstones. The minimum distance of each of the grid points to a mine fitting
the criteria was then averaged. Both methods returned ~25km.

 

Prior to the discovery of Havieron in 2018, Ernest Giles was Greatland's
highest priority project. The Company has previously completed 62 RC holes for
~17,000m and four diamond holes for ~1,300m of diamond drilling.

 

The cover sequence in drilling ranges from a depth of around 120m to more than
400m across the broader project area. Moderate to deep RC and diamond drilling
is expected to provide an effective test of bedrock across most of the tenure.

 

Prior work at Ernest Giles has focused on the Meadows prospect on E38/2205,
with a program of 800m spaced RC drilling.  All holes intersected Archean
bedrock inclusive of prospective banded ironstones, mafic intrusives and
dacites, all of which are known gold host rocks within the Archean greenstones
of the Yilgarn Craton. Moderate gold results of up to 2g/t Au were recorded,
and these are considered highly encouraging given the wide spaced nature of
this first phase drill testing.  Two recently completed diamond holes have
confirmed the favourable stratigraphy and mineralisation related alteration
and provided critical structural information to inform the next phase of
targeted RC at Meadows.

 

 

Contact

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Greatland Gold plc

Shaun Day, Managing Director  |  info@greatlandgold.com

 

Nominated Advisor

SPARK Advisory Partners

Andrew Emmott / James Keeshan / Neil Baldwin  |  +44 203 368 3550

 

Corporate Brokers

Berenberg  |  Matthew Armitt / Jennifer Lee  |  +44 203 368 3550

Canaccord Genuity  |  James Asensio / George Grainger |  +44 207 523 8000

SI Capital Limited  |  Nick Emerson / Sam Lomanto  |  +44 148 341 3500

 

Media Relations

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Australia - Fivemark Partners  |  Michael Vaughan  |  +61 422 602 720

 

About Greatland

 

Greatland is a mining development and exploration company focused primarily on
precious and base metals.

 

The Company's flagship asset is the world-class Havieron gold-copper project
in the Paterson Province of Western Australia, discovered by Greatland and
presently under development in joint venture with world gold major, Newmont
Corporation.

 

Havieron is located approximately 45km east of Newmont's existing Telfer gold
mine. The box cut and decline to the Havieron orebody commenced in February
2021. Total development now exceeds 3,060m including over 2,110m of advance in
the main access decline (as at 31 December 2023).  Subject to a positive
feasibility study and Decision to Mine, Havieron is intended to leverage the
existing Telfer infrastructure and processing plant.  Access to Telfer would
de-risk the development and reduces capital expenditure.

 

Greatland has a proven track record of discovery and exploration success and
is pursuing the next generation of tier-one mineral deposits by applying
advanced exploration techniques in under-explored regions. Greatland has a
number of exploration projects across Western Australia and in parallel to the
development of Havieron is focused on becoming a multi-commodity miner of
significant scale.

 

Competent Persons Statement

 

Information in this announcement pertaining to Reporting of Exploration
Results has been reviewed and approved by Mr Damien Stephens, a Member of the
AusIMM, who has more than 30 years relevant industry experience.  Mr Stephens
is a full-time employee of the Company and has a financial interest in
Greatland.  Mr Stephens has sufficient experience relevant to the style of
mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration, and to the activity
which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined by the
2012 Edition of the Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results,
Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (the JORC Code) and under the AIM Rules -
Note for Mining and Oil and Gas Companies, which outline standards of
disclosure for mineral projects.  Mr Stephens consents to the inclusion in
this announcement of the matters based on this information in the form and
context in which it appears.  Mr Stephens confirms that the Company is not
aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information
included in the historical market announcements, and that the form and context
in which the information has been presented has not been materially modified.

 

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