ASX-listed Javelin Minerals has zeroed in on a suite of highly prospective, undercover gold and copper targets at its Coogee West project in Western Australiaโs Eastern Goldfields, setting the stage for high-impact drilling in the September quarter.
The companyโs latest geophysical review, run by Core Geophysics, has peeled back the layers at Coogee West to reveal a compelling treasure map of high-priority anomalies lurking beneath shallow alluvial cover.
Geophysical data studied by Javelin Resources has unearthed five hidden gold-copper targets at the companyโs Coogee West project in Western Australia.
Historical, wide-spaced air core drilling in parts of the Coogee West barely scratched the surface, only reaching depths of up to 30 metres. The new drilling campaign will be designed to dive deeper and get below the cover that is currently masking the potential treasures lurking beneath.
Javelin says two of the five targets stretch 2 to 3 kilometres in strike length and have never been touched by a drill bit.
โWe know that Coogee hosts a significant gold system in a world-class location, situated on the edge of the renowned St Ives goldfield. Despite these outstanding credentials, large areas of the project remain undrilled.โ
Javelin Resources executive chairman Brett Mitchell
Leading the charge for priority drilling is a standout โbullseyeโ anomaly 1.5km west of the Coogee pit. The high-contrast magnetic hotspot starts 300m below surface and plunges to a depth of 1km. As yet, it remains completely untested.
A similar, though smaller, anomaly just southwest of the main target is also on the companyโs radar. This target shares the same rock structure as the Coogee pit and was first tested in 2015 by Ramelius Resources, which picked up broad gold hits with minor copper from two diamond holes.
Wide-spaced air core drilling later followed before Ramelius walked away, leaving much of the area underexplored.
A few kilometres west of the bullseye, two additional magnetic targets stretching across a combined 4.8km of strike have also been identified. The company believes these may be magnetite-pyrite-rich structural corridors, often associated with high-grade gold and could hold significant mineralisation.
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