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Kali Metals (ASX: KM1) has identified nine new gold target areas across its expanded Marble Bar project in Western Australia, significantly broadening its exploration footprint following high-grade drilling success earlier this year.
The targets cover the company’s approximately 118-square-kilometre tenement package, with a helicopter-supported Phase III reconnaissance program scheduled to commence in mid-October.
The latest exploration push follows Kali’s Phase II drilling campaign, which returned encouraging high-grade intersections, including 2.6m at 10.8 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 8.7m and 1.8m at 7.4g/t gold from surface.
Kali has applied the same combination of high-resolution drone imagery and gold-in-soil geochemistry that helped identify those earlier drilling targets to generate nine additional areas for investigation.
Managing director Paul Adams said the expanded program represented a significant opportunity to build on the company’s initial exploration success.
“Phase III marks a step-change in the scale of our exploration at Marble Bar,” Adams said.
“Having validated our targeting approach with high-grade drill results, including 2.6m @ 10.8 g/t Au, we have now identified nine new target areas across the project – substantially expanding our discovery opportunity.”
A key focus will be the western margin of the project, where Kali will explore Warrawoona Group volcanic rocks for the first time.
These rocks host historically mined high-grade gold mineralisation at Marble Bar and the operating Klondyke gold mine, approximately 10km south of Kali’s tenements.
The exploration program will include geological mapping, ground truthing and sampling across all nine areas over approximately 10 days.
Results from a recently completed project-wide hyperspectral survey are also being integrated to refine and prioritise targets.
Heritage surveys will run concurrently across selected areas, including extensions to previously drilled prospects, potentially allowing Kali to move quickly towards follow-up drilling.
Located approximately 10–15km east of Marble Bar, the project encompasses granitoids, basalt, felsic volcanics and sedimentary units along the western margins of the Mt Edgar Intrusive Complex.
For investors, the immediate catalysts will be results from the Phase III reconnaissance campaign and the identification of priority targets for future drilling, as Kali seeks to demonstrate that its earlier high-grade discoveries form part of a broader mineralised system.
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