17
July 2024
Oracle Power
PLC
("Oracle" or the
"Company")
Gold Target Zone Increased
with Latest Northern Zone Drilling
25km ESE of Kalgoorlie,
Western Australia
Oracle Power PLC (AIM: ORCP), an
international project developer, is pleased to announce that it has
received the assay results from the recently completed Aircore (AC)
drilling programme at the Northern Zone Intrusive Hosted Gold
Project, located 25 km east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia
(refer to Figure 1 for location).
Highlights:
o 27 Aircore
(AC) holes drilled to blade refusal have successfully more than
doubled the prospective gold system, by tagging basement geology at
the Northern Zone Gold Project. Assay results are set out in
Appendix 1 below.
o The AC
drilling targeted the oxide zone to fresh rock stratigraphy with
the aim of expanding the mineralised porphyry footprint, which
remains open.
o Further
targeted drilling is being planned over the expanded footprint of
the mineralised porphyry.
o Riversgold
Limited is fully funded to promptly begin the next phase of
drilling operations at Northern Zone.
o A drilling
rig has been contracted for the middle of August 2024.
o Northern
Zone Gold Project is 25km east of Kalgoorlie.
o Previously
announced Exploration Target at Northern Zone Gold Project of 200Mt
- 250Mt at a grade of 0.4 g/t Au - 0.6 g/t Au for an Exploration
Target of 2.5Moz - 4.8Moz of gold.[1]
Naheed Memon, CEO of Oracle, commented:
"Immediately after receiving the results from the recent,
successful RC drill programme at the Northern Zone Project near
Kalgoorlie, these AC results indicate that we have now more than
doubled the porphyry footprint, with the full extent of these
porphyries yet to be fully delineated. The vertical AC drill holes,
strategically targeted near-surface supergene mineralisation in
areas distinct from previous diamond and RC drill sites within the
oxide and fresh rock interface, revealed new target zones to the
north and south of our existing RC and diamond drilling locations.
A new drill programme is expected to start in mid-August 2024 to
infill supergene zones identified with the last round of drilling.
We look forward to resuming drilling operations shortly with the
view of testing and further expanding this large porphyry
system."
The Northern Zone
Project has an Exploration Target of 200 to 250 million tonnes at a
grade of 0.4 g/t to 0.6 g/t Au for an Exploration Target of 2.5 to
4.8 million oz of gold, as announced by RGL to the ASX on the 9 May
2023.
The drilling contractor, Australian
Aircore Drilling, completed the 1,772m AC drilling at the Northern
Zone Project using a blade to drilling refusal, with the cuttings
being logged by Riversgold Limited's geologists. The detailed
logging and assays continue to show that a gold mineralisation
event has occurred in the project area. The drilling aimed to
expand the potential for supergene gold mineralisation and increase
its spatial coverage across the project site. Mineralisation
remains open in multiple directions, necessitating further testing
of basement geology in future drilling campaigns. Refer to Figure 2
for drilling locations, and Tables 1-3 for location and assay
results.
For
further information visit www.oraclepower.co.uk or
contact:
Oracle Power PLC
Naheed Memon - CEO
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+(0) 20 7236 1177
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Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated Adviser and
Broker)
Rory Murphy, Matthew Chandler, Rob
Patrick
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+44 (0) 20 7409 3494
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St
Brides Partners Limited (Financial PR)
Susie Geliher, Isabel de
Salis
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oracle@stbridespartners.co.uk
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This announcement contains inside
information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation No.
596/2014, which forms part of United Kingdom domestic law by virtue
of the European (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended by virtue of the
Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
Competent Person's Statement
The information in this announcement
that relates to exploration results, exploration targets, mineral
resources or ore reserves is based on information compiled by Mr
Edward Mead, who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of
Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Mead is a director of Riversgold Limited
and a consultant to the company through Doraleda Pty Ltd. Mr Mead
has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of
mineralisation and type of deposits under consideration and to the
activity that he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as
defined in the 2012 edition of the `Australasian Code for Reporting
Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves' (the JORC
Code). Mr Mead consents to the inclusion of this information in the
form and context in which it appears in this
announcement.
Figure 1: Northern Zone Project Map
showing proximity to the Kalgoorlie "Super Pit".
Figure 2: Northern Zone drill collar
plan.
APPENDIX 1: Drilling
Information
Table 1: Northern Zone Aircore Drill
Collar Locations and Information
Hole ID
|
East
|
North
|
RL
|
Dip
|
Azimuth
|
NZAC001
|
381948
|
6592554
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC002
|
381849
|
6592404
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC003
|
381946
|
6592402
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC004
|
381500
|
6592300
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC005
|
381598
|
6592304
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC006
|
381699
|
6592302
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC007
|
381797
|
6592301
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC008
|
381900
|
6592298
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC009
|
381551
|
6592101
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC010
|
381649
|
6592098
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC011
|
381746
|
6592096
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC012
|
381853
|
6592091
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC013
|
381950
|
6592099
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC014
|
381899
|
6591900
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC015
|
381796
|
6591896
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC016
|
381701
|
6591901
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC017
|
381597
|
6591897
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC018
|
381497
|
6591901
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC019
|
381555
|
6592802
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC020
|
381504
|
6592887
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC021
|
381601
|
6592901
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC022
|
381700
|
6592895
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC023
|
381797
|
6592903
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC024
|
381908
|
6592899
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC025
|
381950
|
6592799
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC026
|
381941
|
6592748
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
NZAC027
|
381848
|
6592746
|
358
|
-90
|
0
|
Table 2: Northern Zone Significant Intercepts
Hole ID
|
From
(m)
|
To
(m)
|
Width
(m)
|
Average
Grade
(g/t
Au)
|
Intercept
|
NZAC001
|
45
|
51
|
6
|
0.20
|
6m @0.20g/ t Au.
|
NZAC002
|
30
|
33
|
3
|
0.78
|
3m @0.78g/ t Au
|
NZAC002
|
63
|
64
|
1
|
0.45
|
1m @0.45g/ t Au
|
NZAC003
|
72
|
80
|
8
|
0.13
|
8m @0.13g/ t Au
|
NZAC004
|
33
|
39
|
6
|
0.58
|
6m @0.58g/ t Au
|
NZAC005
|
75
|
81
|
6
|
0.26
|
6m @0.26g/ t Au
|
NZAC006
|
33
|
48
|
15
|
0.27
|
15m @0.27g/ t Au
|
NZAC007
|
60
|
61
|
1
|
0.54
|
1m @0.54g/ t Au
|
NZAC010
|
54
|
69
|
15
|
0.37
|
15m @0.37g/ t Au
|
NZAC011
|
63
|
67
|
4
|
0.87
|
4m @0.87g/ t Au
|
NZAC012
|
51
|
56
|
5
|
0.49
|
5m @0.49g/ t Au
|
NZAC023
|
42
|
45
|
3
|
0.51
|
3m @0.51g/ t Au
|
NZAC024
|
33
|
36
|
3
|
1.14
|
3m @1.14g/ t Au
|
Table 3: Northern Zone AC Composite Results > 0.3 Au Grade (g/t) Cutoff
Hole ID
|
From
(m)
|
To
(m)
|
Width
(m)
|
Au Grade
(g/t)
|
NZAC002
|
30
|
33
|
3
|
0.78
|
NZAC002
|
63
|
64
|
1
(EOH)
|
0.45
|
NZAC005
|
33
|
36
|
3
|
0.72
|
NZAC005
|
36
|
39
|
3
|
0.45
|
NZAC005
|
75
|
78
|
3
|
0.35
|
NZAC006
|
45
|
48
|
3
|
0.65
|
NZAC007
|
60
|
61
|
1
(EOH)
|
0.56
|
NZAC010
|
30
|
33
|
3
|
0.33
|
NZAC010
|
54
|
57
|
3
|
0.97
|
NZAC010
|
63
|
66
|
3
|
0.48
|
NZAC011
|
63
|
66
|
3
|
0.99
|
NZAC011
|
66
|
67
|
1(EOH)
|
0.50
|
NZAC012
|
51
|
54
|
3
|
0.46
|
NZAC012
|
54
|
56
|
2
(EOH)
|
0.54
|
NZAC023
|
42
|
45
|
3
(EOH)
|
0.51
|
NZAC024
|
33
|
36
|
3
|
1.14
|