Brightstar’s recently acquired Sandstone project contains the Lord Nelson deposit, which has an estimated resource of 5.6 million tonnes...

Brightstar resources has recommenced RC drilling to infill and extend resources at its previously-mined Lord Nelson resource which...

Alto Metals (ASX: AME) has nailed a 212m drill hit at its Bull Oak project near Sandstone in WA grading 1.2 g/t gold from just 28m and...

Metallurgical testing on reverse-circulation (RC) drill samples from Alto Metals’ (ASX: AME) Indomitable target at Sandstone in Western...

Alto Metals (ASX: AME) has launched a 3500m reverse-circulation (RC) drilling program at its Sandstone gold project in Western...

Alto Metals has snatched up an option over the Lightning mining lease. Credit: File Alto Metals (ASX: AME) has seized an option on the prized Lightning mining lease that sits within its 100 per cent-owned Sandstone gold project, some 600km north-east of Perth in Western Australia’s East Murchison region. The Lightning gold prospect is 3km west of another one of the company’s own mining leases that hosts its 150,000-ounce Vanguard gold camp. Management says the prospect has be

Alto Metals is chasing more gold at its Sandstone project in WA. Credit: File Alto Metals (ASX: AME) has kicked-off a 4000m air-core drill program to interrogate new shallow gold targets identified from a recent infill soils program at its Sandstone North prospect, part of the company’s Sandstone gold project in the east Murchison region about 600km north of Perth in WA. The soil results highlighted a gold anomaly over 1km of strike with values many times greater than average

Alto Metals is planning an air-core drill campaign at its Sandstone North prospect in WA’s Mid West region. Credit: File Alto Metals (ASX: AME) has defined a 1km-long gold anomaly after a successful fine-fraction infill soil sampling program at the Sandstone North prospect within its greater Sandstone gold project in WA’s Mid West region. The company is planning a first-pass air-core (AC) campaign to test the anomaly near where previous drilling revealed high-grade results. A

Outcropping rocks near Alto Metals’ Indomitable Camp at its Sandstone gold project. Credit: File Alto Metals plans to infill fine-fraction soil sampling at its Sandstone gold project in Western Australia’s Mid West region to better resolve a 6km-long gold-arsenic soil anomaly defined by its first program. The original sampling was on an open 400m grid, but the company says it will now conduct infill sampling on 40m-by-40m spacing to capture about 400 samples from more than 1.

Alto Metals says it is rediscovering an entire goldfield at Sandstone. Credit: File Alto Metals has defined a 6km gold-arsenic anomaly at its Sandstone gold project in Western Australia above old workings that previously threw up drill results including 15m at 9.1g/t gold from 82m, including 3m going 32.1g/t gold. The company says the mineralisation remains open along strike and down plunge at its significant north-trending and largely-unexplored target. The revelation comes

Looking west over Alto Metals’ Bull Oak open pit. Credit: File Alto Metals has extended the mostly-unmined Kohinoor reef within its Bull Oak deposit in Western Australia’s Mid West region by 100m in both directions, with solid runs and gold grades up to a sparkling 38 grams per tonne. The company says the 1m intercept with the highest gold grade came within an 11m hit going 4.1g/t from 34m at its Sandstone project. It was just one of several strong results from an 18-hole rev

Alto Metals has recorded some solid hits from the first holes sunk at its historic Bull Oak deposit including a 55m intercept grading 1.5...

Alto Metals’ RC drilling rig at the historic Bull Oak mine at Sandstone. Credit: File Alto Metals has blasted the first dirt aside with a reverse-circulation (RC) drilling program consisting of 18 holes for 2400m as it aims to revive the historic Bull Oak mine by extending the known limits of gold mineralisation. The company’s extensional drilling of other regional targets, including Vanguard and Hacks North, will entail a further 2600m of drilling. The recent historical data

Alto Metals’ open-pit historic Bull Oak mine from a drone. Credit: File Alto Metals has shone the miner’s torch on more gold in the historic Bull Oak mine after a data review at its Sandstone project in Western Australia turned up a bonanza intersection of 1m at 275 grams per tonne and reports of visible gold. The company will now whack in 18 reverse-circulation (RC) holes for 2400m into the host granodiorite intrusive and surrounding mafic rocks in a bid to extend the known

Alto Metals’ Lords Corridor. Credit: File Alto Metals has been granted a pivotal mining lease at its 100 per cent-owned Sandstone gold project in Western Australia, within a mineralised corridor containing the Lords Camp resource of 400,000 ounces of gold at 1.6 grams per tonne. Management says the lease is contiguous with its other three existing leases and has de-risked the project and provided mining development options. It sits between its existing mining leases that cove

A spectacular view of Alto Metals’ Indomitable project. Credit: File Alto Metals’ final assays from four reverse-circulation (RC) holes drilled for 856m at its 100 per cent-held Indomitable gold camp near Sandstone in Western Australia have confirmed broad zones of shallow oxide mineralisation. Management says the work established the significance of the structural controls of its complex fault-system model, prompting a new diamond drilling program to be formulated for Indomi

Alto Metals’ latest results from a 5000m phase-two drilling program at its 3km-long Indomitable gold camp have handed the company a string of remarkable gold runs in assays from deep oxide zones. Significant results from the reverse-circulation (RC) program include an oxide intercept of 15m at 3.1 grams per tonne gold from 32m downhole, including 8m at 5g/t gold from 32m that includes a high-grade sweetener of 1m running 22.2g/t gold from 33m. Two other respective oxide runs

Alto Metals continues to record positive results from drilling at its Sandstone project in WA’s Mid West region. Credit: File Alto Metals has returned positive results from a second phase of drilling at the Indomitable site that forms part of its greater Sandstone gold project, including a 24m hit at 2.2 grams per tonne gold from 160m. The intercept contained solid sections including 16m going 3g/t gold from 167m, 1m grading 8.8g/t gold from 175m and another 1m hit at an impr

Alto Metals drilling at its flagship Sandstone gold project. Credit: File Alto Metals is planning to turn the ground at its Indomitable prospect into Swiss cheese in an aggressive hunt for gold extensions – particularly at depth – at the site near the Western Australian town of Sandstone. The company says recent drilling results at its prospect have demonstrated the potential for a significant high-grade gold system. Results announced this month include 16m at 13.1 grams per

A chip tray of samples taken from a drill hole at Alto Metals’ new Cessna prospect at its Sandstone project. Credit: File Alto Metals has received yet another boost for its Sandstone gold project in Western Australia’s Mid West region, with first-pass RC drilling at its new Cessna prospect confirming high-grade gold mineralisation in a strike that extends to more than 3.5km and remains open in all directions. With its Cessna assays returning a headline figure of 4m at 24.2 gr