Astral Resources NL report further encouraging results from metallurgical test work from its 100%owned Mandilla Gold Project, located approximately 70km south of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Mandilla is a shear hosted gold deposit situated on the western margin of the Emu Rocks Granite in contact with sediments of the Spargoville Group. Significant NW to WNW trending structures along the western flank of the project are interpreted from aeromagnetic data to cut through the granitic intrusion and may be important in localising mineralization at Theia, where a mineralised footprint extending over a strike length of more than 1.5km has previously been identified.

A second subparallel structure hosts gold mineralisation at Iris. In this area, a mineralised footprint extending over a strike length of approximately 700 meters has been identified.