• Golden Mile employs Alford Drilling to carry out maiden campaign at Pearl
  • The program will consist of up to 16 holes for 2000m
  • Drilling will begin once all permits have been received

 

Special Report: Golden Mile Resources has finalised a maiden drilling contract with Alford Drilling for a 14-to-16-hole reverse circulation campaign at the Pearl copper project in Arizona.

The program will test the Odyssey and Ford targets for the first time and will be centred on historical mine workings, which were in operation from 1915 to 1942.

Alford Drilling is a tier one, family owned and operated drilling contractor based out of Elko Nevada.

It is well credentialled and referenced and recently signed a contract with Golden Mile’s (ASX:G88) wholly owned Arizona registered subsidiary, Gila Metallica LLC.

The program will start at the Odyssey target, focusing on an 800m zone that hosts three quartz veins with polymetallic mineralisation dipping between 60 and 80 degrees to the west.

Here, the drilling campaign is planned from eight holes with the option of drilling steeper dipping deeper holes beneath areas where significant mineralisation is intersected.

The Ford target is situated with the Tucson Wash, which is within a steep-sided canyon.

The mine was accessed via a shaft and drive on the edge of the Tucson Wash, which has since been rehabilitated.

Drilling will target below the workings.

 

Permitting activities

G88 is continuing with permitting activities in the lead up to drilling.

A Notice of Intent has now been accepted and the environmental bond amount issued. Following the receipt of this payment by the BLM, the NOI will be granted.

A Geological Field Operations Plan has been applied for with the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD).

G88 will begin preparing the drill sites once these outstanding permits have been granted.

Alford Drilling will then be mobilised to commence the maiden drill program.

 

 

 

This article was developed in collaboration with Golden Mile Resources, a Stockhead advertiser at the time of publishing.

 

This article does not constitute financial product advice. You should consider obtaining independent advice before making any financial decisions.

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