McLaren Minerals (ASX:MML) has concluded an aircore drilling program at its McLaren Titanium Project in Western Australia. This program, initiated on January 28, 2025, and designed by ERM Australia Consultants, is integral to a three-phase work rollout aimed at enhancing resource modeling and project strategy. A key component of the first phase involves the collection of a five-tonne bulk sample, which has been dispatched to IHC Mining’s laboratory in Queensland for testwork. The results of this testwork are expected within six to eight weeks and will be crucial in confirming the proposed flowsheet and refining the operational slimes removal strategy.
The second phase focuses on areas within the existing 280 million tonnes at 4.8% heavy mineral resource, specifically targeting the inferred and indicated categories. This aims to potentially upgrade resource confidence, particularly in expanding the indicated category, which currently stands at 79 million tonnes at 6% heavy mineral. McLaren Minerals also completed step-out drilling which delineated thick zones of sand along strike of currently known deposition to the north and east and determined further drilling planned in the southern extent of the designed grid could be delayed due to sufficient data collected. The program has been halted, with the remaining planned holes, primarily lower priority targets, to be completed later. The McLaren Titanium Project, spans 333km2 and is situated on the western side of the Eucla Basin, adjacent to the Fraser Range in Western Australia.