Reverse circulation drilling has expanded the known mineralisation at Venus Metals' Youanmi platinum group element and base metals project in Western Australia.
Drilling was undertaken at Venus’ majority-owned prospects Vidure, Vidure South and P57/1365 and followed up on PGE-base metal hits from 2019 of 38m at 0.78 grams per tonne platinum and palladium from 20m, including 12m at 1.32g/t platinum and palladium.
Best intersections in this latest campaign were 30m at 0.95g/t platinum, palladium, gold, plus 0.22% copper and 0.24% nickel from 40m, including 11m at 1.12g/t platinum, palladium, gold, plus 0.18% copper and 0.26% nickel from 52m, and 3m at 1.64g/t platinum, palladium gold, plus 0.32% copper and 0.42% nickel from 66m.