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METEORIC RESOURCES NL — Capital/Financing Update 2021
May 23, 2021
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ASX ANNOUNCEMENT
24 May 2021
2021 Drilling Program Commences at Palm Springs
Highlights
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2021 Exploration drill program commenced at Palm Springs on Friday the 20[th] of June
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An initial 10 holes for 3,800m of combined RC and Diamond drilling is planned
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The drilling is designed to test thick continuous zones of gold mineralisation in the hinge position of a SW plunging anticline
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Previous spectacular intercepts such as 69m @ 4.38g/t Au [181m] in BCRD467 including 19m @ 7.22/t Au [204m], 56m @ 2.69g/t Au [181m] in BCDD372 including 18m @ 4.85/t Au [203m] have been used to target the drilling[1]
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In addition, the program will test the undrilled down-plunge zones southwest of BCRD480 which intersected 25m @ 2.46g/t Au [283m] & 7m @ 2.50g/t Au [377m][2]
Meteoric Resources NL (ASX: MEI ) (the Company ) is pleased to announce that the 2021 Exploration drilling program at Palm Springs commenced on Friday the 20[th] of May.
Managing Director, Andrew Tunks said , “After a pause across the northern wet season we are once again entering the most exciting phase of exploration: drilling. Our maiden 2020 program highlighted several key geological features that have been used to meticulously plan the 2021 drilling. Namely; the gold mineralisation is stratabound within a volcanic trachyte unit and the high grades are preferentially located within the fold hinge of a regional scale anticline. These facts have allowed us to target untested hinge positions and to explore for further extensions to the know mineralisation southward to the edge of the mining lease. I am confident that with results like 69m @ 4.4 g/t Au in BCRD467 from the 2020 campaign to follow-up we will be intersecting more exciting high-grade zones and add significant gold ounces to the current open-pit resource.
In addition, the exploration team has been onsite for several weeks laying the ground work for upcoming exploration such as setting up the onsite exploration camp, dewatering the Butchers Creek Open Pit and preparing for the proposed IP and Magnetic geophysical surveys."
1 MEI: ASX Releases 2/11/2020 - Gold Mineralisation Extended 360m South of Butchers Creek , and ASX Release 30/1/2020 – Multiple Wide High-grade Gold Intercepts at Palm Springs
2 MEI: ASX Release 08/02/2021 - Outstanding Final Assays Extend Continuity of Palm Springs Gold Project
Butchers Creek 2021 Drilling Program
Drilling has commenced at Palm Springs Gold Project ( PSGP ), 30km southeast of Halls Creek in the Kimberley region (WA). Drilling will target mineralisation on Mining License M80/106, south of the Butchers Creek Pit with infill drilling of spectacular 2020 drilling results designed to improve confidence in any stated resources, and several sections designed to extend the mineralisation another 160m south.
Wizard Drilling have mobilised all necessary gear and several drill crews to site and began drilling on the weekend. Two drill rigs will be utilised to complete the ~3,800m program. A multi-purpose rig will drill all reverse circulation (RC) holes and pre-collars before converting over to a core rig and assisting the second dedicated core rig completing the diamond tails ( DD ). Drilling is forecast to take 6 weeks.
Proposed Drilling
Ten (10) holes planned on the Mining License south of the Butchers Creek pit for ~3,800m of drilling will consist of a combination of RC pre-collars with DD tails (the majority of holes), and 1 DD tail (re-entry into RC hole drilled in 2020). Six (6) holes will intercept the hinge region of the folds on sections where there is currently no intersection into the hinge, and 4 holes will extend the gold mineralisation a further 160m to the southwest which coincides with the southern boundary of the Mining License (Figures 1 & 2).
Drilling will feed into additional Resource estimation work and mining studies expected to commence in Q3/4 2021.
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Figure 1: Proposed 2021 drilling south of Pit (collars and drill hole trace in BLUE). Previous historical drilling and recent 2020 collars are shown Red squares = RC collars, Black Triangles = diamond hole collars
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Meteoric’s Previous Exploration - 2020
Meteoric’s 2020 drilling campaign at the PSGP totaled 26 holes for 2,278m of diamond drilling and 5,042m of RC drilling. The program was extremely successful in confirming and extending gold mineralisation for a minimum of 400m along strike to the south-west of the Butchers Creek open pit.
The geological model used to target the drilling was developed from the historical mine cross-sections which in turn, resulted in the following observations:
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Mineralisation is stratabound in a trachytic unit that intrudes a sequence of sedimentary and volcanic rocks.
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True thickness of the trachytic unit is approximately 20m.
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The stratigraphy is metamorphosed to greenschist facies and the main deformation is represented as a tightinclined upright fold that plunges shallowly SW and has an axial plane dipping approximately 70- degrees to NW. The fold hinge zone is strongly thickened but the mechanism for this is not yet clear.
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Gold mineralisation is strongly associate with quartz-albite-carbonate veins and strong sulphidation with pyrite >> pyrrhotite >> arsenopyrite.
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Gold mineralisation is substantially higher grade and thicker in the hinge of the main anticline.
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HINGE
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Figure 2 : A good example (Detail of Section 9,850mN) of the general relationship between thick, robust high‐grade intercepts in the Trachyte within the Fold Hinge Zone versus narrower intersections encountered below in the Fold Limbs.
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Nine (9) of the twenty (20) holes which intersected the Trachyte intersected the Fold Hinge Zone , which continually returned spectacular widths at high grades (refer MEI ASX releases 2[nd] & 30[th] November 2020 and the 8[th] of February 2021), including:
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69m @ 4.38g/t Au [181m] in BCRD467 including 19m @ 7.22/t Au [204m]
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56m @ 2.69g/t Au [181m] in BCDD372 including 18m @ 4.85/t Au [203m]
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55m @ 3.21g/t Au [175m] in BCRD468 including 8m @ 7.56/t Au [179m]
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53m @ 2.14g/t Au [147m] in BCRC466
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45m @ 2.25g/t Au [259m] in BCRC475 including 5m @ 10.77/t Au [261m]
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34m @ 2.48g/t Au [170m] in BCRC470 including 4m @ 7.75/t Au [170m]
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21m @ 6.07g/t Au [264m] in BCRC476 including 2m @ 47.83/t Au [268m]
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Figure 3: Drill hole location plan of 2020 Butchers Creek drill program with Highlight Intercepts from the Company’s 2020 Campaign. Note the thicker, higher grade nature of the Fold Hinge intercepts in Magenta versus the Fold Limb Intersections in Blue.
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The remaining eleven (11) holes which intersected the Trachyte intersected the Fold Limbs of the anticlinal fold with generally narrower widths than the Fold Hinge Zone (though not always), but still with moderate-high grades which included (refer MEI ASX releases 2[nd] & 30[th] November 2020 and the 8[th] of February 2021):
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8m @ 10.41g/t Au [156m] in BCDD373
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25m @ 2.46g/t Au [283m] & 7m @ 2.50g/t Au [377m] in BCRD480
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20m @ 2.05g/t Au [294m] in BCRD462
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19m @ 1.75g/t Au [336m] & 14m @ 2.01g/t Au [398m] in BCRC478
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18m @ 1.80g/t Au [301m] in BCRD477
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12m @ 2.51g/t Au [180m] in BCRC469
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8m @ 2.11g/t Au [286m] & 10m @ 1.49g/t Au [363m] in BCRD472
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Section 9900mN Section 9940mN
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Figure 4: Cross sections 9900mN and 9940mN illustrating the nature of gold mineralisation in the fold hinge and limbs of the trachyte host rock.
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Table 1. Table of Best Mineralised Intercepts (>10 gram.metres) for Butchers Creek 2020 drilling program ( refer MEI ASX releases 2[nd] & 30[th] November 2020 and the 8[th] of February 2021) .
| Section | Hole ID | Sample Type |
From (m) |
To (m) | Interval (m) |
Au Grade (g/t) |
Gram.Metres (g/t.m) |
Ore Zone |
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| 10170m N | BCDD371 | DD | 138.00 | 144.00 | 6.00 | 1.99 | 12 | Hinge |
| 9970m N | BCRC469 | RC | 180.00 | 192.00 | 12.00 | 2.51 | 30 | Limb |
| BCRC470 | RC including |
170.00 170.00 |
204.00 174.00 |
34.00 4.00 |
2.48 7.75 |
84 31 |
Hinge Hinge |
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| 9940m N | BCDD372 | DD including |
181.00 203.00 |
237.00 221.00 |
56.00 18.00 |
2.69 4.85 |
151 87 |
Hinge Hinge |
| BCDD373 | DD including |
156.00 160.00 |
164.00 162.00 |
8.00 2.00 |
10.41 34.44 |
83 69 |
Limb Limb |
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| BCDD374 | DD | 126.00 151.00 |
136.00 166.00 |
10.00 15.00 |
2.49 2.14 |
25 32 |
Hinge Hinge |
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| BCRC466 | RC | 147.00 | 200.00 | 53.00 | 2.14 | 113 | **Hinge ** | |
| 9900m N | BCRD462 | DD | 294.00 | 314.00 | 20.00 | 2.05 | 41 | Limb |
| BCRC465 | RC | No Trachyte Intercepted | Sediment | |||||
| BCRD468 | RCD including and |
175.00 179.00 190.00 |
230.00 187.00 200.00 |
55.00 8.00 10.00 |
3.21 7.56 5.21 |
176 60 52 |
Hinge Hinge Hinge |
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| 9850m N | BCRC464 | RC | No Trachyte Intercepted | Sediment | ||||
| BCRD467 | RCD including |
181.00 204.00 |
250.00 223.00 |
69.00 19.00 |
4.38 7.22 |
302 137 |
Hinge Hinge |
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| BCRD471 | DD | 287.00 | 289.00 | 2.00 | 1.77 | 4 | Limb | |
| 9810m N | BCRC463 | RC | No Trachyte Intercepted | Sediment | ||||
| BCRC474 | RC | 214.00 | 223.00 | 9.00 | 1.75 | 16 | Limb | |
| BCRC481 | RC | 302.00 | 310.00 | 8.00 | 1.45 | 12 | Limb | |
| 9770m N | BCRD473 | DD | No Trachyte Intercepted | Sediment | ||||
| BCRC482 | RC | 302.00 | 311.00 | 9.00 | 1.37 | 12 | Limb | |
| 9750m N | BCRC475 | RC including |
242.00 259.00 261.00 314.00 |
244.00 304.00 266.00 324.00 |
2.00 45.00 5.00 10.00 |
6.12 2.25 10.77 1.85 |
12 101 54 19 |
Sediment Hinge Hinge Hinge |
| BCRD477 | DD | 301.00 | 319.00 | 18.00 | 1.80 | 32 | Limb | |
| 9720m N | BCRD472 | RCD | 286.00 363.00 |
294.00 373.00 |
8.00 10.00 |
2.11 1.49 |
17 15 |
Limb Limb |
| BCRC476 | RC including |
264.00 268.00 |
285.00 270.00 |
21.00 2.00 |
6.07 47.83 |
127 96 |
Hinge Hinge |
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| 9660m N | BCRC478 | RC | 336.00 398.00 |
355.00 412.00 |
19.00 14.00 |
1.75 2.01 |
33 28 |
Limb Limb |
| BCRC479 | RC | No Trachyte Intercepted | Sediment | |||||
| 9620m N | BCRD480 | DD including |
283.00 289.00 359.00 377.00 |
308.00 306.00 373.00 384.00 |
25.00 17.00 14.00 7.00 |
2.46 3.21 0.81 2.50 |
62 55 11 18 |
Limb Limb Limb Limb Limb |
| including | 379.00 | 381.00 | 2.00 | 7.11 | 14 |
- min width 2m, lower-cut 0.5g/t, max 2m internal dilution
The announcement has been authorised for release by the Directors of the Company.
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For further information, please contact:
Dr Andrew Tunks Victoria Humphries Managing Director Investor and Media Relations Meteoric Resources NWR Communications E: [email protected] E: [email protected] T: +61 400 205 555 T: +61 431 151 676
The information in this announcement that relates to mineral resource estimates and exploration results is based on information reviewed, collated and fairly represented by Mr Peter Sheehan who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a consultant to Meteoric Resources NL. Mr Sheehan has sufficient experience relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration, and to the activity which has been undertaken, to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr Sheehan consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on this information in the form and context in which it appears
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