Trek Metals strengthens case for Christmas Creek discovery

• Trek Metals identifies visible gold over multiple intervals at Christmas Creek 
• The core has provided detailed structural information on the orientation and controls to the mineralisation
• This information will assist with optimising follow-up drilling at the site 

Special Report: Trek Metals has added another layer of confidence to its Christmas Creek gold project after visible gold was logged in diamond core from the first-ever diamond holes drilled on site. 

Assays from that core are still pending, but the sight of free gold in multiple intervals is an early tick for the system. 

The diamond core has also given geologists the structural detail they were chasing – information that will shape and tighten the design of the next round of drilling. 

At the same time, RC assays from step-out holes at the Zahn prospect have come back with significant gold, tying in neatly with the interpreted mineralised contact – a zone that remains largely untested over kilometres of strike. 

Elsewhere, work across the broader project continues to build the case. 

The Brockhurst-Coogan-Jobs trend is now interpreted as a >10km-long intrusion-related copper-gold system, with more drilling required to unlock it.

In total, Trek Metals (ASX:TKM) pushed 10,169m of drilling across six prospects – Martin, Zahn, Coogan, Brockhurst, Jobs and Turner – combining 69 RC holes, three diamond holes and several RC pre-collars with diamond tails.

Growing scale in Christmas Creek gold system

TKM chief Derek Marshall said the company is growing increasingly confident in the scale and quality of the system at Christmas Creek after a second occurrence of visible gold was logged at the Martin prospect, this time more than 500m away from the first zone, which had previously returned 10m at 12.66g/t and 10m at 7.34g/t.

He said the repeat observation strengthens the case that the project can host coarse, high-grade gold. 

“The diamond drill core has been cut and submitted for assay, with results expected in late November,” Marshall said. 

“The core will give us vital geological and structural information on the orientation and plunge of the high-grade mineralisation. 

“We have a program of structural analysis kicking off next month, and we are looking forward to seeing the results,” he added. 

“We have also initiated a full geochemical review of the data to incorporate into our models and targeting. 

“While we are yet to deliver a clear economic discovery at Christmas Creek, the 2025 drilling campaign across the Martin, Zahn and Coogan prospects has materially increased their prospectivity and given us multiple priority target areas that warrant additional exploration.” 

Potential for discovery is high 

The field team is now preparing to re-start its activities next week to investigate several high-priority targets generated from radiometric and integrated geological and geophysical datasets.

Marshall said these targets have been highlighted due to the encouraging nature of observed geology from an initial round of recent field reconnaissance – for which rock chip assays are pending and due in late November, along with the diamond holes.

“We also plan to use the upcoming field trip to undertake some reconnaissance around recently identified rare earth targets on our ground, located in close proximity to the large-scale Cummins Range rare earth deposit, owned by RareX Limited,” he said. 

“We believe the potential for the discovery of large-scale mineral deposits at Christmas Creek is high, and we look forward to advancing the project to the next stage once we have received the final outstanding assay data and completed structural analysis of the diamond drill core over the coming weeks.”

This article was developed in collaboration with Trek Metals, a Stockhead advertiser at the time of publishing. 

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