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Potential for Higher Grade Titanium at Pitfield
Potential for Higher Grade Titanium at Pitfield.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nEmpire Metals Limited / LON: EEE / Sector: Natural Resources\n \n29 August 2023\nEmpire Metals Limited\n('Empire' or the 'Company')\n \nAirborne Gravity Survey Results Highlight Potential for Extensive Higher Grade Titanium Mineralisation at Pitfield\n \nEmpire Metals Limited (LON: EEE), the AIM-quoted resource exploration and development company, is pleased to announce the results of the airborne gravity survey recently flown at the Pitfield Project ('Pitfield' or the 'Project'), located in the premier mining jurisdiction of Western Australia.\n \nHighlights\n \n· Large, very dense core within the 40km long magnetics anomaly identified by recently completed airborne gravity survey that has been correlated to the extensively altered and mineralised sedimentary beds.\n· Highest density areas identified by this airborne gravity survey are outside areas tested in Empire's maiden drilling programme demonstrating significant potential to discover even higher-grade mineralisation and/or zones of new economic minerals within the high-density core.\n· Strong, discrete gravity anomalies, indicative of high-density bodies of subsurface rock have been identified by the airborne gravity survey and are interpreted to indicate thick high-grade iron-titanium mineralised beds or large zones of hematitic iron oxides that may be associated with copper mineralisation.\n· A 1,500m diamond core drill programme is expected to commence in September, which will be followed up later this year by a more extensive Reverse Circulation ('RC') drilling programme focusing on the new targets identified from the airborne gravity data, in conjunction with all other exploration data sets.\n· Empire's priority over the coming months is to confirm the scale of this giant, titanium-enriched mineral system and also to provide more information about key parameters such as mineralogy, grades, tonnage potential and geological controls on the thicker, higher-grade mineralisation.\n \nShaun Bunn, Managing Director, said: \"I am pleased to announce the results of our airborne gravity survey which has successfully mapped anomalous variations in the subsurface rock density at Pitfield across the 40km by 8km magnetics anomaly. As expected, the higher res...