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Highest Grade Results Reported To Date At Pitfield
Highest Grade Results Reported To Date At Pitfield.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nEmpire Metals Limited / LON: EEE / Sector: Natural Resources\n \n29 November 2023\nEmpire Metals Limited\n('Empire' or the 'Company')\n \nHighest Grade Drilling Results Reported to Date:\nExtensive, High-Grade Titanium Mineralisation Confirmed from Surface to over 350m Deep, Extending Across 30km of the Giant Mineral System\n \nEmpire Metals Limited (LON: EEE), the AIM-quoted resource exploration and development company, is pleased to announce the analytical lab results from the second and third diamond core drillholes completed at the Pitfield Project in Western Australia ('Pitfield' or the 'Project'), which confirms high-grade TiO2 mineralisation zones across thick bedded intervals to a vertical depth of circa 350m, confirming Pitfield as a world class, district-scale titanium mineral system.\n \nHighlights\n \n· Highest grade drilling results reported to date with second and third completed diamond drillholes both intersecting thick, bedded intervals of high-grade titanium mineralisation.\n \n· Drillhole DD23TOM001, the second of the three diamond drillholes, intersected:\no 297.1m @ 6.10% TiO2 from 111.4m\no including 51.6m @ 7.12% TiO2 from 326.0m.\n \n· Drillhole DD23COS001, the third diamond drillhole completed, intersected:\no 173.2m @ 5.76% TiO2 from 18.6m\no including 58.7m @ 6.32% TiO2 from 24.0m.\n \n· Latest drill results complement the previously reported, thick high-grade interval (276.5m @ 4.57% TiO2 from 80.5m) from the first diamond drillhole DD23MTS001 (announced 20 November 2023).\n \n· All three diamond drillholes completed to date have intersected strong, sediment-hosted titanium mineralisation throughout the length of each hole, including thick, higher grade, bedded intervals, with the bottom of each hole stopped in mineralisation.\n \n· Each of these two drill intersections of high-grade titanium mineralisation is located close to a high-grade TiO2 surface target area (one covering 6km2 and the other covering 3km2) identified from recently completed rock chip sampling.\n \n· An extensive Reverse Circulation ('RC') programme of the high-grade target areas is underway, with approximately 18 RC drill holes co...