The first stage of ground exploration has been completed at Infinity Mining Limited’s Barlow’s Gully tenement P37/8278. The 679-metre aircore drilling program concluded on 28 January and was designed to identify potential hardrock gold sources for the abundant surface alluvial gold present within surface soils and drainage channels across the tenement.
The Barlow’s tenement is located over known greenstones along a major regional structure, the Ursus Fault Zone, linked to other major gold mining deposits and operations to the SSE (e.g. King of the Hills, Kailis), in the Leonora District of the Central Goldfields.
A program of 194 aircore holes was completed by Infinity at Barlow’s, along 8 x N-S traverses, spaced approximately 150 to 200m apart, for a total advance of 679 metres of drilling.
Downhole samples were collected and have been submitted to a WA laboratory for gold and multi-element analyses. Assay results are due next month.
Joe Groot, CEO of Infinity Mining said the early-stage air-core drilling program will determine the potential source of the surface gold, historically collected from this area.
“The results from this aircore program will enable Infinity to design further aircore/RC drilling programs to test for potential hardrock gold below the gold-bearing surface deposits.”
Barlow’s was first discovered in the late 1890’s by the Morris brothers when returning from Lake Darlot to Coolgardie. They stopped on the return journey and worked the streams and gullies without ever finding the source of the gold.
The main area of Barlow’s has historically had a dry blower working the area with several large piles of processed material on site. There are numerous shallow workings on the tenement chasing narrow quartz veins in greenstone and calcrete. The veins generally run in an East-West strike direction with numerous small historical mine shafts, up to 10 metres deep, following the quartz veins.
This is the first known modern-day exploration program conducted at Barlow’s, as the lease has always been in private hands.
Mr Groot said regarding Infinity’s other projects in the Pilbara Region, the company’s geological team will be preparing equipment, compiling mapping and soil sampling programs as well as access planning for the winter campaign starting late March – early April to allow lithium specialists to access the projects, and to prioritise targets for future exploration work.
“In addition to lithium, the gold-copper Pilbara campaign remains on track, with a planned commencement in March 2022. Soil samples collected at Hillside in late 2021 have been submitted for assay and will be reported in near future. A 3,000 metre RC Drilling Campaign is being planned for Hillside.
“We have a big program planned for 2022. We are working on the ground on several projects, ensuring a steady stream of market updates throughout 2022.”
