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Trafalgar Hill Drilling Update
Trafalgar Hill Drilling Update.
About this update from Great Western Mining Corp. Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n GREAT WESTERN MINING CORPORATION PLC\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Trafalgar Hill Drilling Update\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Great Western Mining Corporation PLC (AIM - GWMO, Euronext Growth - 8GW, \"the Company\"), which is exploring and developing gold, silver and copper targets in the Walker-Lane trend of Nevada, provides the following further update on its current drilling campaign.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ·\n \n Three holes have now been drilled at Trafalgar Hill with a combined length of 430 metres\n \n \n \n ·\n \n The lithology and alteration were successfully predicted and the target horizon encountered in all three holes\n \n \n \n ·\n \n Rig now at the Olympic Mine site where eight holes are planned\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Following completion of the three-hole Rock House programme, announced on 8 June, the Company's contracted reverse circulation (RC) drill rig was moved to the Trafalgar Hill prospect at the Olympic Gold Project, where it has now drilled three holes with an aggregate length of 430 metres. These were designed to follow-up the positive results achieved in the 2021 drill programme at the shallower zone in the southern part of the Trafalgar Hill claims. As previously announced, the best intercepts achieved during the 2021 drill programme in this location were (1) 7.6 m at 1.91 g/t gold (including 1.5 m at 8.90 g/t) from 85.3 m in hole OMRC006; and (2) 1.5 m at 1.04 g/t gold from 35.1 m in hole OMRC005.\n \n \n \n \n \n The Company developed a geological model based on last year's drilling results and was able to predict the lithology and alteration features intersected in the three holes just completed with great accuracy. \n \n \n \n \n \n The mineralised zone encountered in all three holes occurs at the contact between a haematite-altered basalt and a pyrite-impregnated rhyolite, corresponding very closely to the precise location predicted by the Company's own stratigraphic and structural model and demonstrating likely continuity from the successful holes drilled on the claims in 2021.\n \n \n \n \n \n In the third hole, OMRC014, this horizon was thicker than previously encountered and more pyrite impregnation was observed in the underlying rhyolite. Drill cuttings for all three holes are being sent to a laboratory for assay, which w...