Sunshine Metals remains on track to update its Liontown resource estimate in early December in the culmination of 14 months of work, including more than 14,700m of drilling.

The company today announced final assays from its latest six-hole diamond drilling campaign for 2323.4m at Liontown’s Gap Zone, yielding multiple high-grade intersections.

Results include:

• 4.9m at 2.08 per cent copper, 1.29g/t gold, 2.02 per cent zinc (from 302.1m downhole); including 1.6m at 4.41 per cent copper, 3.76g/t gold, 3.54 per cent zinc (from 302.1m)
• 1.0m at 4.95g/t gold, 1.57 per cent zinc (from 327m)
• 2.1m at 1.14 per cent copper, 0.67g/t gold, 2.71 per cent zinc, 1.08 per cent lead (from 350.9m)

The Gap Zone was previously only lightly drilled and is expected to significantly increase the resource estimate to be announced next month.

In addition, Sunshine Metals said an electromagnetic conductor identified about 100m beyond the current resource at Liontown West provided a significant copper-gold step-off target for resource growth next year.

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“We took control of the Greater Liontown Project about 14 months ago,” Sunshine managing director Damien Keys said.

“Within that time at Liontown, we have processed and assayed 14,764m (77 holes) of drilling, delineated a high-grade gold panel within a broader under-drilled footwall zone, improved gold-copper metallurgical recoveries and now identified our next resource target growth area with targeted geophysics.

“This is a huge volume of successful work in a short timeframe. The Gap Zone diamond drilling (9 holes, 3,634.2m) has provided 20 significant intercepts (greater than resource cut-off grade) in an area about 160m long x about 200m deep, between the Liontown and Liontown East eesources.

“Our next significant milestone is to update/upgrade the Liontown resource.”

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