Great Western Exploration ramps up drilling program at Diorama after AC completion

• Maiden AC drilling campaign completed at the Diorama copper-gold target
• Total of 60 AC drill holes for 2,200m were completed
• Diorama highly prospective DeGrussa-style target
• Shallow cover obscures a large portion of the target

Great Western Exploration (ASX:GTE) is set to ramp up exploration in the Yerrida Basin in WA after successfully completing a maiden air core drilling program at the Diorama copper-gold project.

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Diorama is considered a DeGrussa style copper-gold target and is located immediately north of Great Western’s Juggernaut copper-gold targets.

The Diorama target was initially defined as a lag copper anomaly, with field mapping defining gossanous quartz from the limited surface outcrop at this location, which was mapped in some areas with extents greater than 100m.

Shallow cover was defined throughout the target’s area, that could potentially obscure copper mineralisation just below surface

The maiden air core drilling program at Diorama 60 drill holes completed for 2,200m, with drilling designed to test the copper anomalism below the shallow cover at the target.

Drill samples have been dispatched for assays, with results to guide future drilling programmes at Diorama.

While assay results from Diorama are awaited, RC drilling to test six individual copper-gold targets at the nearby Juggernaut project is scheduled to commence next month, to be immediately followed by drilling at the Baroo copper-gold target.

The company is also advancing exploration on several regional copper-gold targets within the Yerrida Basin, concurrent with the drilling campaigns, with the aim of progressing these targets to drill-ready status.

The six copper-gold targets of Juggernaut, Seymour, Falconer, Howard, Palmer, Smith and Archer were defined by each individual target’s stratigraphic, structural, and geochemical attributes. A large and zoned copper-lead-zinc anomaly covers all targets.

Great Western is in a strong financial position, with a cash balance of $4.3M as at end of March 2026.

GTE is up 8.33% to 1.3¢. Mkt cap $9.331M.

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