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Drill Results for the Central Menzies Gold Project
Drill Results for the Central Menzies Gold Project.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 1125R\n Empire Metals Limited\n 03 November 2021\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n To view the announcement with the illustrative images please use the following link: \n \n \n http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/1125R_1-2021-11-2.pdf\n \n \n \n \n Empire Metals Limited / AIM: EEE / Sector: Natural Resources\n \n \n 3 November 2021\n \n \n \n Empire Metals Limited \n \n \n ('Empire' or the 'Company')\n \n \n \n Drill Results for the Central Menzies Gold Project\n \n \n \n \n \n Empire Metals Limited, the AIM-quoted resource exploration and development company, is pleased to announce the results of the recently completed Reverse Circulation ('RC') drilling programme at the Central Menzies Gold Project in Western Australia ('Central Menzies' or the 'Project'), over which Empire holds an option to acquire a 75% interest. \n \n \n \n \n \n Highlights:\n \n \n · \n 2,379m of RC drilling has been completed, focusing on the two mineralised trends known as Teglio and Nugget Patch which have been prioritised from previous work:\n \n \n · \n \n Nugget Patch:\n \n \n \n · \n A consistent NNW-trending zone of oxide gold mineralisation was confirmed along the western flank of the prospect.\n \n \n · \n The gold anomaly extends for the full 500m strike length tested in this programme and remains open to the north and south.\n \n \n · \n \n Teglio\n \n \n \n · \n Northernmost step-out RC line intersected shallow gold mineralisation coinciding with the southern end of a recently defined and coherent gold-in-soil anomaly at \"Teglio North\" which extends over some 800m strike length.\n \n \n · \n The southern line at Teglio also intersected significant gold anomalism, and the recent soils show this trend may continue further to the south before the Teglio trend goes under transported cover.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Shaun Bunn, Managing Director, said:\n \n \n \"The results from the drilling programme have confirmed the prospectivity of the Central Menzies Project, with a significant gold anomaly identified along a 500m strike length at Nugget Patch. Current thinking is that we have encountered a supergene enrichment zone and that a higher-grade target may persist beneath and further to the southwest. This find certainly warrants additional drilling to determine if a higher-...