Guardian Metal Resources plc has completed geotechnical drilling for 1,156 metres, targeting the Desert Scheelite zone at the Pilot Mountain tungsten project in Nevada, USA.
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Seven drill holes were designed to provide geotechnical information in the area of the planned open pit shell.
Data from the campaign is also expected to contribute to the project’s pre-feasibility study.
“Multiple geotechnical drillholes intersected porphyry and/or skarn-type alteration and mineralisation, suggesting that the Desert Scheelite mineralised system extends beyond the current known limits of the Desert Scheelite zone,” said the company.
Guardian added it abandoned drill hole GCH-06 at a depth of 67.07 metres because of a drill operator error.
Drill hole GCH-07 was redrilled at the same location as GCH-06 to a final depth of 173.55m.
Drilling has also started at the Garnet zone, with PGMR25-001 completed to 100m, intersecting “multiple very strongly visually skarn-mineralised scheelite dominated intervals”.
Pilot’s other two deposits are at the Gun Metal and Good Hope prospects which could hold further potential for the overall project.