Caprice Resources Ltd has just completed RC drilling at Lady Sampson prospect, located at the southern end of the Northampton Polymetallic Project and approximately 40 kilometres south east of the town of Northampton in Western Australia. It is the first time that any drilling has been done in this area.
The Northampton Polymetallic Project is located in the Northampton Mineral Field of Western Australia. Northampton is a historical mining area with over 100 years of base metals mining, with minimal on-ground exploration completed during the last 50 years.
The drill program at the Lady Sampson prospect involved 11 holes for 938m, testing north-south oriented base metals mineralisation over 750m of strike. The drilling intersected lead, zinc, and copper sulphides in multiple holes, with galena, sphalerite and minor chalcopyrite evident in varying quantities.
The mineralisation appears to be structurally controlled, and hosted within a garnet gneiss, and typically associated with silica-clay-alteration.
Results are expected in four to six weeks time.
Managing Director Andrew Muir said they are very pleased with the outcome of the maiden drilling program, with sulphides intersected over almost the entire strike.
“We eagerly await the assay results which will be help focus the next round of exploration, in this significantly underexplored area.”
