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Marmota chases up historic high-grade South Australian gold hits

Marmota started the company’s maiden drilling program at its Greenewood prospect on the Gawler Craton in South Australia on the weekend. Drilling is progressing at more than 300 metres per day.
Marmota started the company’s maiden drilling program at its Greenewood prospect on the Gawler Craton in South Australia on the weekend. Drilling is progressing at more than 300 metres per day.

Marmota Limited (ASX: MEU) launched its 127-hole reverse circulation drilling program on the weekend for about 10,000 metres at its 90 per cent-owned Greenewood prospect, within the company’s extensive South Australian Gawler Craton project.


The company flagged the imminent start of its first Greenewood program early last week. The drilling is already spinning through about 300m per day and is expected to continue into August.


Greenewood is one of two gold prospects in Marmota’s westernmost Golden Moon joint venture tenure. The company’s Mainwood prospect is 1 kilometre southwest of Greenewood.


Marmota received ministerial consent to the transfer of 90 per cent entitlement to the two joint venture licences in late June.


The approval freed the company to launch its planned exploration programs across the joint venture ground.


Prospectivity of the immediate area was highlighted late last year by bonanza hits in a phase one reverse circulation drilling campaign at the Campfire Bore prospect. Greenewood is less than 5km southwest of Campfire Bore.


Last year’s impressive Campfire Bore hits included a top intercept of 1m assaying 107 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 57m depth, five hits above 20g/t gold, and 13 intercepts of 10g/t gold or better. These included 5m at 12g/t, 3m at 11g/t and 3m at 10g/t gold.


Marmota’s current program is the first drilling at the prospect since 2018. Just 8245m of third-party drilling has been historically committed to the area.


The company has been encouraged by its internal review of the prospect’s exploration history. The review uncovered previous third-party drilling results from 2016 and 2017 that included 1m at 53g/t gold from 30m, 1m at 37g/t gold from 48m and 1m at 29g/t from 31m.


A further three holes delivered 1m assaying 23g/t from 24m, 1m at 23g/t from 23m and 1m going 21g/t from 41m.


Previous drilling comprised 12 rotary air-blast holes for 372m, 109 reverse circulation holes for 7109m and five diamond holes for 764m.


Marmota’s new campaign will more than double Greenewood’s current complement of exploration drilling.


As our flagship Aurora Tank gold deposit progresses through production-related studies, we are delighted to carry out our maiden program at the nearby Greenewood gold deposit. Marmota is developing a pipeline of adjacent gold deposits, as we rapidly grow and expand our Gawler gold project.
Marmota Limited Chairman Dr Colin Rose

Marmota’s stunningly successful, fully owned Aurora Tank project is 33km east-southeast of the company’s Campfire Bore, Greenewood and Mainwood prospects, which are within its wider Golden Moon joint venture.


The Golden Moon ground also includes the Golf Bore gold prospect, which Marmota has not yet explored.


Together, the four prospects and Aurora Tank appear to occupy an arc of shallow, high-grade gold prospectivity that remains only thinly explored.


Mainwood, 1km southwest of Greenewood, may also hold gold potential. If the current Greenewood drilling program bears fruit, Mainwood would seem assured to soon be subject to Marmota’s attention.


Through its wholly owned subsidiary Half Moon, Marmota also owns all the Typhoon and Monsoon deposits, within the company’s Western Gawler Craton joint venture project.


Marmota is looking at a healthy portfolio of potentially significant gold targets at various stages of evaluation throughout its Gawler Craton tenure.


The company is not letting the grass grow under its feet, with an aggressive campaign of first-pass scout drilling lined up across its new ground to quickly identify targets that warrant early follow-up work.


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