Empire Metal announced that its recent exploration program at Pitfield in Western Australia yielded positive results, with all forty drilled holes revealing titanium presence in every meter.
Key findings included a 168-meter section with a 6.91% TiO2 (titanium dioxide) grade starting from 12 meters deep, and two surface holes showing 180 meters at 6.14% TiO and 154 meters at 5.50%.
The company emphasized that the drilling highlighted the presence of abundant, thick, and highly mineralized sandstone beds, which are easily accessible at the surface across extensive areas, spanning over 1.5 kilometers wide and having a strike length of 6 to 7 kilometers within this vast mineral system.
Empire plans to focus its next drilling efforts on these sandstone beds and explore other potential high-grade zones along the identified magnetics-gravity anomaly.
Shaun Bunn, the managing director of Empire, remarked on the success of the second reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaign, noting the discovery of extensive, shallow, sandstone-rich beds containing high-grade titanium mineralization. He pointed out that of the 61 RC and three diamond drill holes completed, all but one intercepted thick, high-grade TiO2 mineralization. The one exception, a barren RC drill hole, was terminated near the surface due to thick sand that collapsed the drill collar, but subsequent drilling below this cover confirmed TiO2 presence.
Bunn expressed excitement for the upcoming third RC drilling campaign, set to commence this quarter, anticipating further high-grade discoveries along the 40km by 8km extensive mineral system and the opportunity to gather more metallurgical samples.
Empire Metal holds a 70% stake in the Pitfield project.
