Azure Minerals has kicked off exploration at the Barton gold project in WA, with 3,000m of RC drilling targeting extensions of  Genesis Minerals’ (ASX:GMD) new Puzzle North gold discovery.

The target is gold mineralisation at Daisy Corner – immediately adjacent to Puzzle North – where previous exploration intersected anomalous gold mineralisation of 7m at 1.26g/t gold from 42m (YAB13).

Barton borders several growing gold deposits and significant gold projects, including Genesis’ Ulysses Gold Project (1,608,000oz gold resource); and Saturn Metals Ltd (ASX:STN): Apollo Hill Gold Project (944,000oz gold resource).

The first holes in Azure Minerals’ (ASX:AZS) initial program will be collared immediately to the north of the Azure-Genesis tenement boundary.

The company also plans to complete an aircore drilling program to follow up untested, soil- covered structurally-controlled gold targets.

Pic: Barton Project showing areas of gold prospectivity.

Andover diamond drilling underway

Azure has also restarted diamond drilling on its flagship Andover nickel-copper project (60% Azure/40% Creasy Group).

To date, two separate zones of massive, semi-massive and matrix nickel-copper sulphides have been identified at VC-07 West, where drilling is planned to define these mineralised zones and potentially move into a mineral resource drill-out phase.

The company also plans to complete additional drilling at several bedrock-hosted EM conductors – which represent high-priority drill targets.

 

 

 

This article was developed in collaboration with Azure Minerals Limited, a Stockhead advertiser at the time of publishing.

 

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