Resolution Minerals Horse Heaven Drill One-Third Complete at 13,700m

Resolution Minerals has punched one-third of a planned 13,700-metre drill program at its Horse Heaven antimony-tungsten-gold-silver project in Idaho, the company said.

Sixteen diamond core holes at the Golden Gate South prospect totalled 4,470 metres, averaging 279 metres each. Core inspection identified scheelite, the primary tungsten ore mineral, and two batches of samples have been dispatched for multi-element analysis.

Targets include extensions of gold mineralisation at Golden Gate South and North. The program is also testing a broad tungsten soil anomaly at South and extensions around the historic Golden Gate mine, where open-pit tungsten mining ran from the early 1950s through 1952, with smaller operations lasting until 1980.

Golden Gate sits adjacent to Perpetua Resources' recently permitted Stibnite gold project. Stockpile samples from Resolution's Johnson Creek mill site returned assays up to 1.85% tungsten trioxide, the company said.

Last month Resolution gained membership in the US defence industrial base consortium, a Pentagon-backed network that opens supply chain initiatives and funding for critical metals. The company sees Horse Heaven as well positioned to supply domestic antimony and tungsten sources.

Resolution earlier hit sulphide mineralisation in the first holes of this same program, with visible gold reported in several intercepts. Assay results from the latest two sample batches are pending.