Alien Metals Limited (AIM: UFO) has reported exceptional high-grade silver results from diamond drilling at the Elizabeth Hill Silver Project in Western Australia, where it holds a 30% interest.
The standout result from joint venture partner West Coast Silver’s latest programme was: 38.3 metres at 878g/t silver from just 3.7 metres downhole, including 22.3 metres at 1,495g/t silver.
Within that interval, drilling encountered an exceptionally high-grade section of 1.4 metres at 23,360g/t silver, including 0.5 metres grading 64,745g/t silver.
A further interval in the same hole returned 13.5 metres at 2,253g/t silver, including 9.15 metres at 3,318g/t.
Other drilling also returned broad mineralised intersections, including 63 metres at 53g/t silver from 2 metres in hole 26WCDD038 and 20.15 metres at 53g/t from 15 metres in 26WCDD039.
Importantly, the programme encountered mineralisation outside the existing Mineral Resource Estimate, extending the known system towards surface and westwards into granite.
The new west-to-east drilling orientation has also identified high-grade mineralisation within the existing resource area that had not been extensively tested by the previous east-to-west drilling.
The results are expected to feed into an updated JORC 2012 Mineral Resource Estimate planned for Q4 2026. The current resource, announced in April, contains 2.8 million ounces of silver.
Further diamond drilling is planned during the second half of 2026 to test the extent of the near-surface granite-hosted mineralisation, improve confidence in the resource and assess whether portions of the current Inferred resource could ultimately be upgraded to the Indicated category.
Alien Metals retains a 30% project interest in Elizabeth Hill and owns 30.5 million shares in West Coast Silver, representing approximately 8.7% of its issued share capital.
The full West Coast Silver announcement can be viewed at: http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/3323S_1-2026-8-26.pdf
