Benz Mining Corp. has reported new gold assay results from its ongoing drilling campaign at the Hurricane Camp, part of its Glenburgh gold project in Western Australia’s Gascoyne region.
The latest drill results have delivered thick, shallow, high-grade gold intercepts, successfully linking Zone 126 and Zone 102 for the first time.
This connection significantly expands the Hurricane Camp footprint and highlights a substantial open-pit opportunity across the broader trend.
Standout intercepts from the latest program include 70 metres at 2.9 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 214 metres, which features a richer core of 37 metres at 5.2 g/t gold. Another hole returned 56 metres at 1.6 g/t gold from 162 metres, including 17 metres at 3.6 g/t gold.
In addition to the shallow open-pit potential, a major 400-metre down-plunge step-out hole has intersected the mineralised system exactly where projected.
This breakthrough effectively doubles the Hurricane search space, opening up a massive underground growth opportunity completely outside the current exploration model.
Benz Mining CEO Mark Lynch-Staunton said the Hurricane Camp is growing rapidly on multiple fronts.
“This is exactly how a large gold system builds,” Lynch-Staunton said.
“The model is holding together, the wireframes are connecting, mineralised volume is growing and Hurricane is advancing toward maiden Mineral Resource definition.”
The Hurricane Camp represents the highest-grade portion of the greater Glenburgh Exploration Target, contributing a core of 2.5 to 3 million ounces of gold. Around 80 per cent of this target is already drill-defined.
“Combined with the emerging shallow open-pit opportunity, Hurricane is rapidly becoming a major growth centre at Glenburgh,” Lynch-Staunton said.
Benz plans to immediately follow up on the deeper underground targets while continuing infill drilling on the shallower zones.
This dual strategy of proving up known targets and stepping out into new ground aims to systematically convert the Glenburgh Exploration Target into a formal maiden mineral resource by 2027.
