Pantera Minerals Ltd. has expanded its footprint in Western Australia’s Albany Fraser Orogen, securing exploration licence E28/3634 just days after completing its acquisition of the Corona gold project.
The newly secured ground encompasses roughly 236 square kilometres, lifting Pantera’s consolidated Corona landholding to approximately 731 square kilometres across two granted tenements and one application.
The expansion ground lies directly along strike within the prospective Yellow Dam Shear Zone and Cundeelee Fault corridor.
This structural trend sits approximately 10 to 25 kilometres north of BPM Minerals’ recent high-grade gold discoveries at the Bonnie and Clyde and Beachcomber prospects, where initial reverse circulation (RC) drilling returned impressive results, including 4 metres at 20.57 g/t gold and 8 metres at 9.23 g/t gold beneath cover.
Pantera CEO Barnaby Egerton-Warburton said: “We had the chance to add ground directly northeast of that discovery in the same corridor.
“We now hold a significant position along the Yellow Dam trend between BPM’s discoveries and our own eight-kilometre bedrock anomaly.”
Historical work across Pantera’s enlarged project area, initially explored by major joint ventures between 2006 and 2015, focused primarily on regolith and paleochannel sampling, leaving bedrock gold potential largely untested by systematic RC or diamond drilling.
To fast-track exploration, Pantera plans to deploy ultra-fine fraction (UFF) soil sampling over existing anomalous areas, mirroring the successful methodology used by neighbours to identify targets beneath 15 to 30 metres of paleochannel cover.
Heritage and access engagement with the Upurli Nguratja native title holders is already underway, with UFF soil programs slated for the first quarter of 2027 and subsequent drilling anticipated in the second quarter, subject to approvals.
The company remains fully funded for its initial exploration roadmap, backed by AU$1.7 million in cash reserves as of September and an additional AU$2 million receivable from EnergyX scheduled for April 2027.
