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Diablo Resources (ASX:DBO) has been given the green light to start its maiden 1,000-metre diamond drilling program at the Star Range Project in Utah, after the receipt of final drill permit documentation this morning.
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These approvals mean Diablo can now begin ground works, with mobilisation and drilling scheduled to quickly commence in the coming weeks.
Early exploration will cover approximately 1,000 meters across five diamond drill holes. Diablo also holds regulatory approval to expand the campaign up to 27 holes from a dozen distinct drill pads, should that be required.
The upcoming campaign represents the first-ever subsurface drill testing conducted at the high-priority North Star Prospect, and has the Diablo leadership team excited.
“Receiving final drill approval marks a major milestone for Diablo and allows us to commence the first-ever drill testing at our exciting Star Range Critical Minerals Project,” Lyle Thorne, Diablo’s CEO, said today.
The campaign marks the first time Diablo has been able to test the geological model it’s been building. Drilling tests will run across high-grade surface geochemistry, geological mapping and geophysical datasets.
Thorne continued: “Importantly, with drilling to commence at Star Range and the acquisition of the Horn Silver project, progressing towards completion, Diablo is rapidly building a portfolio of highly prospective silver, antimony and copper projects in one of the States’ premier critmins districts.”
HotCopper understands this upcoming campaign represents the first-ever subsurface drill testing conducted at the “high-priority” North Star prospect.
Star Range encompasses 238 lode claims and one Utah TLA lease across ~5,242 acres, six kilometres west of Milford. The project sits in a historically active district that produced lead, zinc, copper, gold, and silver until the 1960s.
Once results come in, they will be defined using integrated datasets from geological mapping, recent induced polarisation geophysics, and surface geochemistry. Prior rock-chip sampling at the prospect returned high-grade surface results, including silver grading 3,043 g/t and antimony up to 0.7%.
DBO opens this morning at 1.4cps.
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