Zenith Minerals has prolonged high-grade zones at its Red Mountain breccia-pipe gold discovery in Queensland, returning distinctive reverse circulation (RC) drilling hits of 93 metres grading 0.43 grams per tonne (g/t) gold and 34 metres grading 0.39g/t gold.
The firm’s outcomes flowed from a current RC drilling program on the rising Red Mountain intrusion-related gold (IRG) deposit. Previously reported drilling included the standout hit of 122 metres grading 1.28g/t gold from 209 metres, together with 55m at 2.18g/t gold inside a thick rhyolite sill.
Zenith Minerals managing director Andrew Smith
Zenith says it’s bettering its understanding of the form and dimension of the breccia pipe with every drillhole. The firm has mapped out the northern and southern margins of the pipe, figuring out a goal hall for additional drilling. It says the breccia pipe stays open to the northwest and southeast, with gold hits rising in grade and width to the west. Another drillhole hit 99m grading 0.28g/t gold, which has stretched the japanese pipe margin laterally to the east.
After efficiently finishing the RC drilling, the corporate has ‘upped the ante’ and kicked off diamond drilling, with a single diamond tail deliberate to increase mineralisation to at the least 500 metres under floor throughout the pipe. The gap may even take a look at the potential for a high-grade feeder pipe – a function typically seen in different Queensland breccia pipe techniques.
‘These newest assays present our clearest view but of the higher a part of the Red Mountain.’
Zenith Minerals managing director Andrew Smith
Zenith says geological observations of drilling core at Red Mountain have bolstered its perception that the breccias and volcanic rock sorts might be much like these of the close by Mt Wright breccia pipe, beforehand operated by Resolute Mining. During its 11-year mine life, Mt Wright produced greater than 1 million ounces of gold from a breccia pipe.
Similar breccia-hosted pipes in Queensland embrace the now-closed Mt Leyshon deposit, which produced 3.5 million ounces.
Zenith Minerals managing director Andrew Smith stated: “These newest assays full the RC dataset from the October 2025 program and supply our clearest view but of how the higher a part of the Red Mountain system matches collectively. We now have steady RC protection alongside the northwest development, with gold mineralisation monitoring the breccia margin and strengthening the place the rhyolite thickens and the breccia–rhyolite contact is finest developed.”
Zenith’s major focus is its gold portfolio, which incorporates the corporate’s Dulcie gold undertaking in Western Australia’s Southern Cross greenstone belt. The firm’s Dulcie Far North prospect already has a mineral useful resource of 8.2 million tonnes grading 1.2 g/t for 302,000 gold ounces. Meanwhile, at its Dulcie goal, Zenith is working two rigs throughout a six-kilometre hall, on the lookout for a repeat efficiency.
