Historic WA gold play produces copper-gold shows for Kula

Rock and soil samples surrounding the historical Donnybrook gold mine have yielded encouraging results for Kula Gold, returning up to 7.95 grams per tonne gold from early-stage exploration at its wholly owned Brunswick project in WA’s South-West region and has identified additional copper grades.

Kula has been taking samples from a zone up to about 250m wide, with a current strike of 650m running north-west that is open in both directions, with anomalous gold up to 176 parts per billion and rock samples to 3.47 g/t gold.

Two gold micro nuggets were panned by Kula and a local prospector from a small dam at its White Sands prospect.

The company is currently conducting exploration at its Mt Cara, Wild Wave and Donnybrook prospects and breathing new life into an area that still sports the historic Hunters Venture headframe in and around orchards and agricultural land.

Hunters Venture was born in 1899 after Donnybrook Goldfields was floated in London to develop the mine, sparking a gold rush in the area. The mine closed in 1903.

Recent sampling by Kula has revealed an area of about 300m by 200m of copper prospectivity north-east of Mt Cara, with values up to 219 parts per million copper and remaining open to the north.

In addition to the field work, the company continues to verify historical data at the Donnybrook prospect, interpret open-file reports and cross-check previously reported grades to build a geological understanding of the gold mineralisation.

Spoil material around the Hunters Venture headframe has confirmed initial high-grade results from hydrothermal breccia initially reported in September last year that was interpreted to be the core of the epithermal system after returning 7.95 g/t gold and an amphibolite with quartz-carbonate crackle vein-breccia, interpreted to be from mineralisation near the core that returned 1.14 g/t gold.

The Wild Wave prospect was historically seen as a sub-parallel lode to the main play type, supported by a 0.87 g/t gold result returned from a hydrothermal breccia sample from spoil rocks at historical workings.

Previously-mapped mineralised reefs at the Mt Cara prospect have been retested, with the company saying that high values of 140ppb gold and 176ppb gold in areas of no historical mapping suggested the potential for the presence of undiscovered reef structure.

The company is now planning further soil sampling lines to test gold-in-soil anomalism immediately north and south of Mt Cara, plus soil sampling of accessible ground surrounding the Hunters Venture headframe to test and link gold-in-soil indications from Mt Cara to the Hunters Venture area.

Management noted that given White Sands is only 6km north-east of the Donnybrook gold mine, it is studying whether the volcanism at White Sands may have been the geological driver for the Donnybrook epithermal system.

Kula Gold is planning to swing the drill bit into action once it has completed detailed geological mapping and has undertaken a comprehensive review of all geological data in order to firm up its drilling targets.

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