The diamond rig contracted from DDH1 Drilling will enable deeper exploration targeting and provide detailed structural information relating to gold mineralisation.
Trek Metals (ASX:TKM) expects the rig to arrive on site in early July with initial drilling to test the Martin prospect area where earlier reverse circulation drilling returned high-grade intersections of 10m at 12.66g/t gold from 59m and 10m at 7.34g/t from 94m.
RC drilling is underway to test extensions of this same high-grade mineralisation with initial assays expected in mid to late July 2025.
“The securing of this second rig to undertake diamond drilling at Christmas Creek represents an exciting milestone, providing the opportunity to get down deeper into the system and obtain a much clearer picture of the geology and structural controls of the gold mineralisation,” chief executive officer Derek Marshall said.
“The initial RC holes have been drilled underneath, down-dip and along strike from the high-grade intercepts achieved at the Martin prospect last year as we aim to fully delineate what we believe to be a significant stacked high-grade vein system.”
The Christmas Creek project comprises a previously unexplored, largely concealed district-scale gold and rare earths exploration opportunity southwest of Halls Creek.
Prior to its acquisition by Trek in December 2023, it was part of Newmont Exploration’s global exploration portfolio.
Since then, TKM has secured additional tenement applications to add to this district-scale greenfields gold and rare earths exploration opportunity.
The current RC drill program started in early June with the initial objective of testing for extensions of high-grade intervals at the Martins target.
Once this work is completed, the RC rig will move to follow-up encouraging results at the Zahn and Coogan target.
