Western Gold Exploration Ltd (WGE) said exploration continued to advance at the Stronchullin prospect in Knapdale, Argyllshire.
CAMPAIGN
The Canadian company’s campaign comprises eight diamond drill holes of 150 to 200 metres depth for a total 1,360m, to evaluate the quartz-gold-silver-base metal veins in the vicinity of the historic gold mine.
Drilling began in early May 2021 following results from 2020 deep overburden geochemical surveys to define extensive gold-arsenic-antimony anomalies.
The company said these reflected additional zones of orogenic style quartz-gold-silver-base metal veins developed to the east of the main Stronchullin vein and along strike to the north and south of the known vein system.
Chief executive Ross McLennan added that the first few weeks of diamond drilling at Stronchullin had progressed as expected and the company hoped to advance exploration work as planned.
Priority Drilling conducted the eight-week drill programme with assay results due during the third quarter of 2021.
The process for the company’s application for the drill programme was extended because of Covid-19 restrictions and repercussions from the cyber attack on Scotland’s Environment Protection Agency.
The prospecting agreements were acquired by WGE’s subsidiary Lorne Resources and include surface access rights, and base metal and gold-silver mining rights agreements at Stronchullin.
TARGETS
The company is focused on exploring mineral properties in Western Scotland, and discovering opportunities in the Dalradian belt.
It is targeting historic gold-silver and copper-lead mines in the belt with the potential to develop a mineral resource
Prospects include the Stronchullin mine, Gossan Burn and Allt Dearg in the Knapdale project area.
The property is situated 70km west of Glasgow and 50km south of Oban in the uplands of the west coast of Scotland.
The early exploration stage project is prospective for orogenic quartz-gold-silver lodes, comprising three contiguous sub-properties of Stronchullin and Ormsary North and South.