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Exploration Update for the Eclipse Gold Project
Exploration Update for the Eclipse Gold Project.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n To view the announcement with the illustrative images please use the following link:\n \n \n \n http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/5300L_1-2022-5-15.pdf\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Empire Metals Limited / AIM: EEE / Sector: Natural Resources\n \n \n 16 May 2022\n \n \n \n Empire Metals Limited\n \n \n \n \n ('Empire' or the 'Company')\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exploration Update for the Eclipse Gold Project\n \n \n \n \n Drilling Increases Strike Length with Five out of Six Drill Holes Intercepting Mineralisation\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Empire Metals Limited, the AIM-quoted resource exploration and development company, is pleased to announce the assay results of the Diamond Drill ('DD') programme at the Eclipse Gold Project ('Eclipse'), in Western Australia.\n The DD programme, the second carried out by Empire at Eclipse, was designed to gather further geological and structural information on the mineralised shear and to test for lodes below the gold-depleted zone of weathering.\n \n \n \n \n \n Highlights:\n \n \n ·\n The recent drilling has confirmed that the gold mineralisation associated with the NW-striking and steeply SW-dipping shear zone (\n \n 'Eclipse shear'\n \n ) extends over a strike length of more than 500 metres, an increase in strike length of over 300 metres from the previously reported extent of mineralisation along the Eclipse shear.\n \n \n ·\n Six DD holes for a total of 999m were completed, focused mainly on demonstrating that the gold mineralisation persists at depth around the Eclipse shaft and Jack's Dream shaft, and to test for continuity along strike between Eclipse and Jack's Dream and to the north-west of Jack's Dream.\n \n \n ·\n Five of the six DD holes intercepted mineralisation within the Eclipse shear, with significant intercepts reported as follows:\n \n \n Ø\n 0.54m @ 2.61g/t Au from 138.72m downhole at ECDD22_002\n \n \n Ø\n 0.61m @ 1.63g/t Au from 164.69m downhole at ECDD22_003\n \n \n Ø\n 0.33m @ 4.28g/t Au from 165.3m downhole at ECDD22_003\n \n \n Ø\n 0.41m @ 2.16g/t Au from 78.79m downhole at ECDD22_005\n \n \n Ø\n 0.48m @ 1.64g/t Au from 81.09m downhole at ECDD22_005\n \n \n Ø\n 0.5m @ 1.78g/t Au from 121.15m downhole at ECDD22_006\n \n \n Ø\n 0.4m @ 1.25g/t Au from 122.98m downhole at ECDD22_006\n \n \n \n \n \n ·\n It is noteworthy that ECDD22...