Conroy Gold and Natural Resources plc has started a 2,000-metre drilling campaign to test the deeper potential and higher gold grade, as well as the presence of antimony, at Clontibret in Co. Monaghan, Ireland.
ANTIMONY
The drill holes will follow up on the “gold and antimony plunge trends” which were identified during detailed relogging.
Drilling underway on the first drill hole, for a 500m vertical depth, will be the deepest to date at the project, and is targeting the “major stockwork zone” beneath the historic Tullybuck antimony mine.
Conroy expects the hole to intersect “more than ten identified lodes” before reaching the
deeper stockwork zone.
“The second and third drill holes will test the strike extension of the antimony-bearing lode
system toward[s] a postulated northern fault zone believed to separate the Corcaskea
mineralisation from the main Clontibret deposit,” added the explorer.
Corcaskea is one of four discovered gold targets which demonstrated that Clontibret was open in all directions.
Conroy expects to use a second drill rig before the end of 2025 to accelerate operations.