Duketon Mining Hits Gold at Barlee, First Drilling Exceeds Expectations

Fogarty said the results validate the soil geochemistry program that identified the targets. "The broad zones of gold mineralisation intersected at the Astro Prospect, including 24 metres at 0.8g/t gold and 8 metres at 0.8g/t gold in hole 26BAR005, are particularly encouraging given the Project has never previously been drilled and remains open in all directions."

He noted that mineralisation has now been identified on multiple drill lines, with significant gold 400 metres south of the main discovery, "demonstrating the emerging scale of the system."

At Gromit, Fogarty said the anomalous gold results and quartz veining in adjacent RC holes provide encouragement ahead of the remaining assay results.

About 70% of Duketon's tenure remains untested by modern UFF geochemistry. Another 12 kilometres of prospective strike to the south is covered by tenement applications awaiting grant.

Fogarty said the company looks forward to receiving the remaining assays over the coming days and resuming follow-up drilling to systematically test the growing mineralised footprint at both Astro and Gromit.