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Greatland Gold PLC
19 January 2017
19 January 2017
Greatland Gold plc
("Greatland" or "the Company")
Ernest Giles - Further Drill Results Confirm Gold
Mineralisation
Greatland Gold plc (LON:GGP), the London Stock Exchange AIM
listed precious and base metals exploration and development
business, is pleased to announce that further analysis of samples
from recent drilling confirms gold mineralisation at its Ernest
Giles project in Western Australia.
Highlights
-- Higher grade results received from 1m re-sampling of recent
RC drilling at Ernest Giles gold project in Western Australia
(initial results from 4m composite samples reported on 12(th)
January 2017);
-- Many significant gold results returned, up to 2g/t Au,
including 2m at 1.51g/t and 1m at 1.54g/t, and anomalous silver was
also noted in many samples;
-- Results confirm that gold mineralisation is present over a
large area and suggest that Greatland has discovered a new gold
province in this largely unexplored area;
-- Greatland will be issuing an updated presentation on the
1,000 square kilometre Ernest Giles project within the next two
weeks, which will provide a detailed overview of the project,
including the Meadows, Empress and Wishbone targets.
Callum Baxter, Executive Director, commented: 'We are very
pleased to be able to report these results from our first
systematic, wide-spaced drilling campaign at our 100% owned Ernest
Giles gold project.
On 12(th) January 2017, Greatland reported that results from our
recent ambitious drilling campaign at Ernest Giles had successfully
identified two large zones of gold mineralisation, including a
Western zone of 6km in length and 1.5km in width, and an Eastern
zone of 2km in length and 1.5km in width. These results reported
today provide support for the view that this large greenstone belt
is highly prospective for gold and may contain similar multiple
million ounce deposits as have been discovered in other large
greenstone belts in Western Australia.
Greatland continues to explore several options to advance this
exciting project. Significant results of the 1m sampling are
presented in Table 1 at the end of this release.'
Summary of Results and Overview, Ernest Giles Project, Western
Australia
The Ernest Giles project is located in central Western
Australia, covering an area of 1,000 square kilometres that
includes over 120km of strike of gold and nickel prospective rocks.
The area is covered by desert sands and sediments, making it
virtually unexplored. The region is home to several successful
exploration discoveries such as Tropicana (AngloGold ASX:AGG),
which contains over 7 million ounces, and Yamarna (Gold Road
Resources ASX:GOR), with over 6 million ounces. The Company is
targeting large +5m ounce deposits and clusters of several
camp-type +1m ounce gold discoveries at Ernest Giles.
Earlier drill programmes by the Company at Ernest Giles
intersected gold mineralisation and large alteration systems in
wildcat drilling of blind structural targets defined by detailed
airborne geophysics. This was considered a major achievement for
such a large prospective area with virtually no historical work. To
build on this the Company completed a comprehensive broad spaced RC
drilling programme which tested several large areas based on work
completed by the Company and earlier work by Western Mining
Corporation.
The 2016 RC drill programme comprised 23 holes for 5,581m. Hole
locations were based on a broad spaced grid pattern of 1,600m x
800m. Holes were designed to test basement lithologies for gold
mineralisation and also test beneath surface geochemical
anomalies.
Mineralisation was observed in 13 of the 23 holes. Initial 4m
composite analysis of drill spoils shows gold anomalism between 5
and 95ppb in more than 10 holes peaking at 784ppb. Several holes
exhibiting gold anomalous zones over tens of metres, for example
ERC011 140-200m (60m) peaking at 0.78g/t gold with mineralisation
at end of hole, and ERC014 224-278m (54m) peaking at 0.17g/t gold
also with mineralisation at end of hole.
Additional 1m sampling of several zones of interest was
undertaken to confirm preliminary results and better define
mineralisation. Only holes ERC011, ERC013 and ERC014 were sampled
with a total of 174 single metre samples collected. Many
significant gold results were returned up to 2g/t, including 2m at
1.51g/t and 1m at 1.54g/t. Anomalous silver was also noted in many
samples. Significant results of the 1m sampling are presented in
Table 1. Results confirm mineralisation is present over a large
area and suggest that Greatland has discovered a new gold province
in this largely unexplored region.
The Company will continue with planning of additional drill hole
locations and further surface geochemistry along with a review of
previous work. It should be noted that the project area covers over
1,000 square kilometres and is host to a number of other high
priority targets such as Empress and Wishbone, the former an
unexplained +300ppb gold surface anomaly, and the latter an
untested coincident geochemical and structural target.
Additional information on the Ernest Giles project can be found
on the Company web site at www.greatlandgold.com/projects
Competent Person:
Information in this announcement that relates to exploration
results is based on information compiled by Mr Callum Baxter, a
director of Greatland Gold plc, who is a member of the Australasian
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and Australian Institute of
Geoscientists. Mr Baxter has sufficient experience relevant to the
style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and
to the activity which has been undertaken to qualify as a Competent
Person as defined by the 2012 Edition of the Australasian Code for
Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore
Reserves (the JORC Code) and under the AIM Rules - Note for Mining
and Oil & Gas Companies. Mr Baxter consents to the inclusion in
the announcement of the matters based on their information in the
form and context in which it appears.
Enquiries:
Greatland Gold PLC
Callum Baxter/Gervaise Heddle
Tel +44 (0)20 7747 9980
Email: info@greatlandgold.com
www.greatlandgold.com
SPARK Advisory Partners Limited (Nominated Adviser)
Mark Brady/Sean Wyndham-Quin/James Keeshan
Tel +44 (0)20 3368 3550
SI Capital Limited (Broker)
Nick Emerson / Andy Thacker
Tel +44 (0)14 8341 3500
Notes for Editors:
Greatland Gold plc is London listed (LON:GGP) natural resource
exploration and development company with a current focus on gold
and nickel exploration projects.
The Company has five main projects; three situated in Western
Australia and two in Tasmania. All projects are 100% owned by
Greatland or Greatland has the right to take 100% ownership.
Greatland is seeking to identify large mineral deposits in areas
that have not been subject to extensive exploration previously. It
is widely recognised that the next generation of large deposits
will come from such under-explored areas and Greatland is applying
advanced exploration techniques to investigate a number of
carefully selected targets within its focused licence
portfolio.
The Company is also actively investigating a range of new
opportunities in precious and strategic metals and will update the
market on new opportunities as and when appropriate.
Note: This announcement contains inside information which is
disclosed in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation.
Table 1 - Ernest Giles 1m Sample Results (>14ppb gold)
Hole From To (m) Gold (ppb)
ID (m)
ERC011 142 143 85
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ERC011 143 144 93
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ERC011 144 145 479
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ERC011 145 146 213
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ERC011 146 147 48
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ERC011 147 148 28
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ERC011 150 151 17
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ERC011 156 157 28
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ERC011 157 158 42
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ERC011 158 159 59
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ERC011 159 160 149
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ERC011 160 161 54
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ERC011 161 162 1542
----- ------- -----------
ERC011 162 163 439
----- ------- -----------
ERC011 163 164 732
----- ------- -----------
ERC011 164 165 76
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ERC011 165 166 23
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ERC011 166 167 41
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ERC011 167 168 132
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ERC011 168 169 21
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ERC011 177 178 74
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ERC011 181 182 37
----- ------- -----------
ERC011 182 183 447
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ERC011 183 184 17
----- ------- -----------
ERC011 184 185 22
----- ------- -----------
ERC011 186 187 207
----- ------- -----------
ERC011 187 188 329
----- ------- -----------
ERC011 188 189 400
----- ------- -----------
ERC011 189 190 821
----- ------- -----------
ERC011 190 191 1020
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ERC011 191 192 1995
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ERC011 192 193 137
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ERC011 193 194 118
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ERC011 196 197 15
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ERC011 197 198 132
----- ------- -----------
ERC011 198 199 42
----- ------- -----------
ERC013 212 213 73
----- ------- -----------
ERC013 213 214 223
----- ------- -----------
ERC013 214 215 305
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ERC013 269 270 34
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ERC013 270 271 506
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ERC013 271 272 163
----- ------- -----------
ERC013 272 273 185
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ERC013 273 274 35
----- ------- -----------
ERC013 274 275 32
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ERC013 275 276 16
----- ------- -----------
ERC013 276 277 16
----- ------- -----------
ERC013 277 278 41
----- ------- -----------
ERC013 278 279 24
----- ------- -----------
ERC013 279 280 14
----- ------- -----------
ERC014 231 232 73
----- ------- -----------
ERC014 232 233 158
----- ------- -----------
ERC014 233 234 98
----- ------- -----------
ERC014 234 235 94
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ERC014 235 236 68
----- ------- -----------
ERC014 236 237 53
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ERC014 237 238 34
----- ------- -----------
ERC014 238 239 264
----- ------- -----------
ERC014 239 240 60
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ERC014 240 241 142
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ERC014 241 242 245
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ERC014 242 243 66
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ERC014 243 244 288
----- ------- -----------
ERC014 244 245 40
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ERC014 245 246 55
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ERC014 246 247 76
----- ------- -----------
ERC014 247 248 93
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ERC014 248 249 127
----- ------- -----------
ERC014 249 250 102
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ERC014 252 253 82
----- ------- -----------
ERC014 258 259 18
----- ------- -----------
ERC014 270 271 42
----- ------- -----------
ERC014 274 275 32
----- ------- -----------
275 276 24
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276 277 15
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