Brightstar Resources (ASX: BTR) has announced promising results from recent reverse circulation (RC) drilling at its Sandstone Hub, located in Western Australia’s East Murchison region. Brightstar Resources is focused on exploring and developing gold projects. The company aims to expand its resource base and advance projects towards production. The new drilling programs were designed to test for extensions of mineralisation beneath previously mined areas across several prospects within the Sandstone Hub.
Drilling highlights include encouraging results from the Hacks West prospect, situated 2 kilometres west of the historical Hacks Mine, which previously yielded approximately 200,000 ounces of gold at 24 grams per tonne. One notable intercept at Hacks West returned 1 metre at 38.3 grams per tonne. Additional drilling at the Havilah Camp further examined the down-plunge extension of a prior intercept of 3 metres at 11.4 grams per tonne gold from 129 metres, a zone not currently included in the Havilah gold resource of 54,000 ounces.
At the Bulchina prospect, drilling sought to build upon earlier gold intercepts discovered during shallow historical drilling along the strike south of the main Bulchina Deposit, which historically produced 230,000 ounces of gold at 3.62 grams per tonne. Managing director Alex Rovira stated that these results justify the company’s approach of systematically testing high-priority exploration targets alongside infill drilling programs.
Brightstar intends to incorporate the Havilah drilling results into the Sandstone mineral resource estimate (MRE) update, with follow-up programs planned to delineate high-grade shoots. Rovira also noted that while Hacks West and Bulchina are at earlier stages of exploration, the high grades intersected in initial drilling suggest potential for these prospects to become substantial assets. The company believes it is only beginning to unlock the exploration potential at its Sandstone Hub, which currently holds a mineral resource estimate of 1.5 million ounces of gold at 1.5 grams per tonne.
