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MARMOTA LIMITED — Regulatory Filings 2022
Mar 21, 2022
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Regulatory Filings
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ASX ANNOUNCEMENT
22 March 2022
Aurora Tank Gold Discovery RC drilling To Commence
Marmota Limited (ASX: MEU) (“Marmota”)
Marmota recently reported [ ASX:MEU 22 2 22 ] that the first BLEG tests at Marmota’s 100% owned gold discovery at Aurora Tank yielded outstanding grades of 197 g/t gold over 1m (from 66m downhole[1] ).
Marmota is very pleased to announce that the next round of:
RC Drilling is due to commence next week (around 1 April).
PROGRAM: April 2022
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RC drill program : 85 holes (approx.)
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Total RC drilling : 10,000m (approx.)
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Hole depths : Average: 117m ( Max: 200m )
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Marmota’s team is departing Adelaide tomorrow for Aurora Tank
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Drilling expected to take approximately 5 weeks and is fully funded
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For overview of planned hole locations, see Figure 1
1 66m downhole is approximately 57m below surface. Page 1
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Multiple Objectives
April 2022 program has multiple objectives including:
1. NW Flank
Testing further extensions to the new NW flank [ see Fig. 1, 2 and 3 ]. The NW flank has recently tripled in strike and is yielding outstanding intersections such as:
3m @ 72 g/t gold (from 66m) including 1m @ 197g/t gold
5m @ 27 g/t gold (from 38m) including 1m @ 105g/t gold
3m @ 29 g/t gold (from 63m) including 1m @ 74g/t gold
4m @ 15 g/t gold (from 67m) including 1m @ 53g/t gold
2. Sub-parallel Extensions to the N and NE (in parallel to the NW flank)
3. Extensions at depth targeting primary mineralisation
4. Extensions to the east of the Aurora Tank mineralised zone[2]
5. Selected drilling to aid resource modelling and optimal pit design, or where previous holes were not deep enough.
The program also includes a number of holes that form part of the Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI) at both Aurora Tank and on surrounding tenements (Woorong Downs and Comet) that are jointly funded by the South Australian Government under a grant awarded to Marmota [ ASX:MEU 24 June 2020 ]. Some of these holes are early stage reconnaissance work.
2 Earlier exploratory reconnaissance holes to the east in Figure 1 (sometimes as little as 20m or 30m downhole) were not deep enough, or the ground was too hard for the AC rig being used for the early recon work.
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Marmota Chairman, Dr Colin Rose, said:
“ We are hoping this will be our final drill program at Aurora Tank prior to our lodging a Mining Lease application at Aurora Tank. The program develops a number of parallel extensions that are still open, and should enable us to complete work on an optimal open pit design. ”
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Figure 2: Aurora Tank: location and grade of best intersections over 1m (circled ) + new NW flank – – – –
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Figure 3: Schematic long-section through new NW flank
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(Mag. x 200; scale bar = 50µ; reflected light)
Fig 4: Primary Hypogene Gold grains sampled from Hole 104 at Aurora Tank Diagram shows fine-grained sulphosalts (Bi-Sb-rich) contained within the primary hypogene gold particles
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Figure 5: Marmota’s Aurora Tank tenement and tenements around the Challenger Gold Mine
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For further information, please contact:
Marmota Limited
Dr Colin Rose Executive Chairman Email: [email protected]
Unit 6 79-81 Brighton Road Glenelg SA 5045 ABN: 38 119 270 816 T: (08) 8294 0899 F: (08) 8376 8633 www.marmota.com.au
About Marmota Limited
Marmota Limited (ASX: MEU) is a South Australian mining exploration company, focused on gold, copper and uranium. Gold exploration is centred on the Company’s dominant tenement holding in the highly prospective and significantly underexplored Gawler Craton, near the Challenger gold mine, in the Woomera Prohibited Defence Area. The Company’s copper project is based at the Melton project on the Yorke Peninsula. The Company's uranium JORC resource is at Junction Dam adjacent to the Honeymoon mine. For more information, please visit: www.marmota.com.au
Competent Persons Statement
Information in this Release relating to Exploration Results is based on information compiled by Dr Kevin Wills, who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He has sufficient experience which is relevant to the styles of mineralisation and types of deposits under consideration and to the activities being undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the “Australasian Code of Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves.” Dr Wills consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.
Where results from previous announcements are quoted, Marmota confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the relevant market announcement and, in the case of estimates of Mineral Resources, that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the relevant market announcement continue to apply and have not materially changed.
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