Enter the Dragon – big surface gold hits and now serious grades down dip

Golden Dragon Mining has unveiled high-grade gold from recent drilling at its Cue project in WA's Murchison Goldfields. Golden Dragon Mining (ASX: GDR) has unveiled a stellar gold hit of four metres grading 17.6 grams per tonne (g/t) from a shallow depth of 44m, in the company's latest drilling results from its Cue gold project in Western Australia's rich Murchison Goldfields. Results from the second-phase reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaign, comprising 24 holes

Golden Dragon Mining’s Cue project in the prolific Murchison gold region of WA. Credit: File Golden Dragon Mining (ASX: GDR) has ignited the fire at the company’s Cue gold project in Western Australia’s Murchison region, with first pass drilling at its Behring Bore prospect delivering a series of high-grade gold strikes. The company says it is now eyeing a large-scale system after the program successfully intersected significant mineralisation close to the surface, potentia

Golden Drilling Mining undertaking initial drilling program at Coodardy Credit: File Golden Dragon (ASX: GDR) has unleashed a fresh phase of reverse circulation (RC) drilling at its Behring Bore and Coodardy prospects within its Cue project in WA’s Murchison, chasing both scale and strike in a steadily expanding high-grade gold system. The new program will include probing a newly recognised camp-scale target, with a 2100m program already in motion and earlier shallow hits hi

The multi-million ounce Big Bell mining camp and pit just 10km along strike from Golden Dragon’s Cue gold project in Western Australia. Credit: File Golden Dragon Mining (ASX: GDR) has unveiled a whopping million-ounce-plus gold target on its Cue project in Western Australia, following an independent review of up to 14 priority targets. The review was completed by experts Bare Rock Geoscience and suggests the scale and continuity of the project’s shear systems are consistent

Golden Dragon Mining’s Cue project in the prolific Murchison gold region of WA. Credit: File Golden Dragon Mining (ASX: GDR) has kicked off its next round of drilling at its emerging Coodardy prospect in Western Australia’s Murchison. The aim is to stretch its high-grade gold zone further along strike and deeper into fresh rock, building on recent shallow hits that hinted at a promising near-surface system. Standout hits from the company’s maiden program included an 8-metre h

Golden Dragon Mining undertaking drill hole sampling at Coodardy in Western Australia. Credit: Michael Busbridge/File One standout hit returned 8 metres running at an impressive 7.3 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 20m, within a broader zone of 24m grading 2.7 g/t gold. Other high-grade intercepts included 16 metres grading 1.7 g/t gold, featuring a 4-metre slice running at 4.6 g/t gold from 16m, while in a third hole, the drill bit jagged 4 metres assaying 9.7 g/t gold from 2

Golden Dragon Mining undertaking the company’s initial drilling program at Coodardy. Credit: File Golden Dragon Mining (ASX: GDR) has doubled down on its gold bet in Western Australia’s fertile Murchison Goldfields by consolidating 600 square kilometres of prime, underexplored tenure into a single, centralised landholding known as the Cue gold project. Notably, the broader district is an infrastructure-rich, tier one mining jurisdiction that has played host to more than 35 m