- Earthworks underway at regional drill targets
- Geophysical surveying expected to commence next week
- Program includes extensional ground gravity surveying
- Drilling at Kuro targeted to commence early June
Trek Metals (ASX:TKM) is accelerating exploration activities at the Christmas Creek manganese and gold project in WA with pre-drilling earthworks underway.
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CEO, Derek Marshall, said Trek is ramping up work at Christmas Creek and significantly increasing its on-ground workforce in the Kimberley region.
“Trek’s field camp at Christmas Creek is expected to increase to over 20 people in the coming weeks as we ramp up exploration efforts,” he said.
“This is an exciting time following a period of considerable planning as we begin generating new data in the field. This will start next week with an extension of the ground gravity surveying – which was the key in defining the initial round of drill targets at the recently discovered high-grade Kuro manganese prospect.”
The survey, co-funded by the WA government under the exploration incentive scheme (EIS), will extend a highly successful survey completed late last year that defined interpreted extensions to the high-grade manganese mineral system discovered late last year.
“We expect the new data to provide us with a key drill targeting technique moving forward, due to the high density of manganese mineralisation and the lack of outcropping geology,” Mr Marshall said.
“We also have a separate geophysical crew arriving next week to commence Induced Polarisation surveying at Kuro. This geophysical method has been selected due to petrophysical test work on rock chips showing that IP should be able to detect the manganese mineralisation below the surface, ultimately assisting in drill targeting.”
Precision Exploration Drilling’s reverse circulation rig is expected to arrive in early June and commence drilling shortly thereafter, with bulk fuel having recently arrived on site.
Earlier this month Trek was awarded two EIS geophysical grants for up to $188,000 for manganese and gold exploration at Christmas Creek.
The co-funded ground gravity surveying will initially extend the coverage around recent high-grade manganese surface mineralisation discovered late last year at the Kuro prospect, where rock chips returned assays of up to 60.1% manganese.
TKM is steady at 15.0¢. Mkt cap $9.275K.
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