Slater Mining has declared that it has started an exploration program at the newly optioned West Khazret gold project located in Kazakhstan. Preliminary work will include a grid geochemical soil sampling campaign having orientation lines over the prominent mineralization that stretches for 1,400 m at the Atygai gold system situated in the Sineshikhan fault, whose length and width are 16 km and 3 km respectively.
The company will document the orientation MMI geochemistry. After that, it will collect soil samples on traverses initially across the complete Sineshikhan fault and subsequently over the project, whose area is 320 sq. km with wide spacing. In addition, the company will specifically excavate trenches across several outcropping quartz vein mineralisation regions and the historic mining activity area in order to find the mineralization’s grade and thickness.
According to Slater Mining’s CEO, Ian Slater, this project is an overwhelming brownfield project having huge upside potential. The company is expecting to begin the subsequent drilling phase, which includes confirmatory holes drilled in the popular mineralisation and resource definition over the complete Sineshikhan fault.
Slater Mining expands the West Khazret project located in the Urals Tectonic belt, Northwest Kazakhstan. Several mineralized systems are contained in the project. Sineshikhan fault is the first target area for the company, which is focused to bring main oxide open pit prospects to account through metallurgical test work, near-surface core drilling, and next traditional heap leach mine development.
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