Nick Tulloch, Chairman of ECR Minerals, joins StockBox to share exciting updates from the company’s Blue Mountain gold project in Victoria.
Shallow drilling at Denny’s Gully has confirmed visible gold in historic creek beds, rapidly advancing the understanding of this alluvial target. With assay results due in early September and past recovery rates topping 90%, ECR is on track to finalize its mining plan and move toward production.
Discover how ECR is using low-cost, high-efficiency methods to define gold-bearing zones — and what comes next for the project.
- Shallow Drilling Delivers Visible Gold – A percussion drill program has confirmed visual gold across mapped creek beds, fast-tracking target definition for trenching.
- Assay Results Expected in September – Lab testing will provide definitive gold grades, guiding resource estimates and future development plans.
- Wash Plant & Mining Plan in Motion – With a recovery rate over 90% already achieved in testing, ECR is gearing up to finalise a mining plan and seek state approval.
Nick Tulloch, Chairman of ECR Minerals, commented “We continue to be very encouraged by our findings at the Blue Mountain Project and our decision to use the percussion drill rig for site investigations remains a success. While laboratory assays remain pending, the extent of visual gold already observed in multiple channel flats highlights the potential scale of this system – which even now is only partly explored. By running material through the trial wash plant, we will be able to confirm the relationship between drilling results and actual recoveries and thereafter develop a detailed mining plan for the project. With a further prospective 6km of strike downstream along South Kariboe Creek, the Blue Mountain Project continues to represent one of the most exciting opportunities within our portfolio.”
