Miramar Resources has received approval to begin drilling at its Mount Vernon nickel project in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.
Mount Vernon makes up part of Miramar’s Bangemall project which contains several drill targets that have the potential to result in the discovery of new nickel mineralisation.
Miramar executive chairman Allan Kelly said the target range has a similar ground footprint to that of the Nova-Bollinger area in the project.
“At Mount Vernon, our detailed magnetic and EM survey highlighted a number of highly conductive late-time EM anomalies inboard of the outcropping basal contact of a dolerite sill which has several significant historic nickel and copper results in soil and rock chip samples,” Kelly said.
Once Miramar has completed drilling at its Whaleshark site, it will undertake rock chip and soil sampling, orientation ground EM surveys and drill hole location finalisation at Mount Vernon.
The region that the Bangemall project sits in has been identified as having high prospectivity for several mineral deposit types by both the Geological Survey of Western Australia and Geoscience Australia.
The project covers approximately 1970 kilometres squared of the region, and is 100 per cent owned by Miramar.