Great Southern Mining Limited has returned assay results from a 10-hole reverse circulation drilling program at the Blanc Plat target, located approximately 200 metres north of the Mon Ami Gold Project in Western Australia.

The 1,392-metre program tested for northern extensions along the gold-bearing Barnicoat Shear Zone. Results from the shallow drilling include 14 metres at 1.05 g/t gold from 36 metres, featuring a 1-metre section at 6.33 g/t gold in hole 26MARC012, and 3 metres at 1.07 g/t gold from 38 metres, including 1 metre at 2.55 g/t gold in hole 26MARC015. Additional intercepts include 6 metres at 0.66 g/t gold from 108 metres in hole 26MARC011 and 7 metres at 0.70 g/t gold from 70 metres in hole 26MARC013.

The company noted that approximately 65% of the gold mineralisation exceeding 0.2 g/t gold intercepted in the recent drilling is hosted within the oxide zone as saprolite clays or weathered saprock.

“These results from Blanc Plat, in addition to the recently announced extensional drilling below and along strike of the existing resource, highlight the significant potential for growth in the resource.”

— Matthew Keane, Managing Director

The Mon Ami deposit hosts an existing JORC 2012 Mineral Resource estimate of 1.56 million tonnes at 1.11 grams per tonne gold for 55,500 ounces of contained gold. Both the deposit and the Blanc Plat target sit on a granted Mining Licence, with prerequisite approvals such as archaeological, ethnographic, and metallurgical studies already attained. Great Southern Mining considers the asset a potential near-term development opportunity due to its location within a 50-kilometre radius of multiple operating and emerging gold processing facilities in the Laverton district.

Outside of Mon Ami, exploration work continues across the company's portfolio. Assay results are pending for 38 completed reverse circulation holes at the Golden Boulder discovery within the Duketon Gold Project.

Read the full announcement: DRILLING EXTENDS MON AMI TO THE NORTH