The Board of Xtract Resources Plc (“Xtract” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has commenced the Phase One drilling programme on the Bushranger copper-gold exploration project located in the Lachlan Fold Belt,New South Wales, Australia’s only world-class copper-gold province.
As previously announced, the Phase One drilling programme will consist of three diamond drill holes for 2,290m, with the objective of testing the potential extensions to the northwest of the Racecourse Mineral Resource, which was estimated in 2018 as 71Mt @ 0.44% Cu and 0.064g/t Au, at a 0.3% Cu cut-off, and has been classified as Inferred in accordance with JORC (2012).
The Phase One drilling programme will follow up drill intersections such as 159m @ 0.4% Cu and 0.2g/t Au in drill hole BRD001 and 169m @ 0.4% Cu and 0.1g/t Au in drill hole BRD009 (as previously announced these drill results have not yet been independently tested or verified by Xtract) and investigate the zonation of higher gold grades within the Racecourse Mineral Resource.
Please see the following links for Bushranger long section and location area.
Racecourse project – Long Section
http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/7650I_1-2020-12-15.pdf
Bushranger project – Location & Resource Area
http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/7650I_2-2020-12-15.pdf
Further information is available from the Company’s website which details the company’s project portfolio as well as a copy of this announcement: www.xtractresources.com
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation No. 596/2014 on market abuse. The person who arranged for the release of this announcement on behalf of the Company was Colin Bird, Director.
