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- Diamond drilling program underway at Darlington project
- Following up on previous diamond and recent AC results
- Shallow mineralised gold zone parallel to historic Darlington mine trend,
- Darlington priority target within the 3.6 km Darlington-Caledonia trend
North Stawell Minerals (ASX:NSM) has kicked off follow-up diamond drilling at the Darlington prospect in Victoria.
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The program is designed to test extensions beneath the high-grade gold intersections returned from multiple drilling campaigns completed between January 2025 and May 2026.
“NSM is excited to return to Darlington and follow up on previous results – planning to test the interpreted orientation of a possible high-grade gold shoot within a larger plane of lower grade gold mineralisation,” executive director, Bill Reid.
“All the important geological and structural elements for a repeat of our two recognised target-types mineralisation occur at Darlington, multiplied by the fact that the controlling basalt is the northern continuation of the same geology that hosts the Stawell Mine.
“High-grade gold mineralisation in Victoria has generated significant investor interest at other Victorian projects over the last several years and NSM sees operational and investor upside in demonstrating that Darlington has similar, poorly tested, high-grade gold potential.”
A total of two to three holes for 600-800 metres of NQ diamond drilling will be completed 70m along strike from the high-grade results achieved 300m south of the historic Darlington mine to test for a northern plunge to the high-grade shoot within a vertical, planar lower grade vein system open at depth and along strike.
Drill hole targeting is supported by more recent air core drilling.
The target geology is a repeat of a brecciated quartz-carbonate vein first intersected at approximately 90m vertical in the previous diamond drill hole.
The North Stawell project includes a 445 sq. km contiguous package of ground that incorporates the gold- prospective structural corridor immediately north of Stawell Gold Mines’ operation at Stawell.
The Darlington prospect lies in the highly gold-prospective corridor that runs from Stawell in the south, through Darlington, and as far as the Caledonia prospect two km to the north of Darlington.
Darlington includes two parallel northwest-trending veins 100m apart hosted in the sedimentary rocks above a deeper (drill-confirmed) basalt. Historic mine production from the eastern vein is recorded as 2,347 ounces at 18.2 g/t gold.
NSM is up 3.70% to 2.8¢. Mkt cap $10.08M.
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