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It’s been an “exceptional start to the program” for West Coast Silver (ASX:WCE) at Elizabeth Hill, with maiden drilling at the Pilbara project returning shallow, high-grade silver in two diamond drill holes that intersected mineralisation.
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Hole 25WCDD001 was the more impressive of the two: It landed 21 metres at 1,047 grams per tonne gold, including one metre at 15,071 grams per tonne gold.
The other, 25WWCDD002, was nothing to sniff at either, though; the second hole delivered a 15 metre intersection at 723 grams per tonne gold from one metre, including three metres at 2,639 grams per tonne gold from one metre.
The mineralisation runs along the interpreted Munni Munni Fault at the contact of the ultramafic/mafic rocks (east) and granites (west) and stretches around 40 metres northward away from projected underground workings.
“To intersect high-grade silver from close to the surface in our first two holes is a tremendous result,” West Coast chairman Bruce Garlick said today.
The hits “validate beliefs in near-surface potential at Elizabeth Hill,” he added.
Only these two assay results have been sent to labs, but West Coast says several other new intersections of near-surface high-grade silver will soon be evaluated and quantified as the hunt for economic shallow silver rolls on.
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Eight more drill holes have already been sent for testing, with those assay results expected to slowly come back in over the next eight weeks.
A full analysis of historical silver drilling data at the Pilbara dig site is underway, too.
WCE opened Wednesday trade at 9.6cps after dropping -4% yesterday.
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