- Personnel have mobilised to site
- RC drilling contract execute
- Permitted for a 4,500m RC drill program
- Drilling to be undertake cross Sirdar, Maori Queen, Ellendale and Plantagenet
Avira Resources (ASX:AVW) is on track to commence its inaugural RC drilling program at the high-grade Mt Cattlin gold project in Western Australia.
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The in-site preparation phase marks a key operational step in progressing the 4,500m RC drilling program at Mt Cattlin.
Current activities include drill pad preparation, surveying and drill hole mark out, support infrastructure groundworks, site access preparation and safety preparations required to support the commencement of drilling.
The approved program has been designed to systematically test four prospects at Sirdar, Maori Queen, Ellendale and Plantagenet.
The program is targeting shallow extensions to the high-grade Sirdar and Maori Queen deposits — both of which carry exceptional historical grades — and provides the first modern systematic RC drill-testing of the Ellendale and Plantagenet prospects.
Historical drilling has confirmed high-grade gold at Mt Cattlin with intersections exceeding 100 grams per tonne (g/t) at the Sirdar prospect, including 1.00m at 131.24 g/t, 6.00m at 50.07 g/t and 9,0m at 23.42 g/t.
The program has been constructed to deliver results that directly underpin Avira’s maiden Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE), targeted for Q4 2026.
An RC drilling contract has been executed with Drill Safe Services which has completed RC drill programs for a range of exploration clients including Rox Resources Limited (ASX: RXL) and Astral Resources NL (ASX: AAR)/
Drill Safe will be mobilising to site imminently with drilling expected to commence in the near term.
The Mt Cattlin project is located in the southern Goldfields-Esperance region of WA, approximately 430 km south-east of Perth and four km north of Ravensthorpe, within the Ravensthorpe Greenstone Belt of the Yilgarn Craton.
Historical production from the Maori Queen and Sirdar deposits totals 23,006 tonnes at 24.56 g/t.
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