ASX ANNOUNCEMENT
19 April 2022
EXPLORATION UPDATE AT 100% OWNED MACPHERSONS PROJECT
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HIGHLIGHTS
Drilling completed for the quarter included 98 holes for 3,955m of aircore at the Jaurdi Gold Project and 82 holes for 2,200m of RC drilling at the MacPhersons Project
First drill program at MacPhersons Project (Queenslander Prospect) is now complete. Assays are expected at the end of April
Fieldwork for exploration target generation has commenced at MacPhersons Project. Rock chip samples returned grades up to 5.24 g/t Au from costean sampling and 20.2g/t from mine shaft mullock heaps
Lost Dog Panel 3 drilling has returned the highest intercept to date from the mine.
LD3_174 11 metres @ 21.73 g/t Au from 13 metres, inc. 6 metres @ 38.05 g/t from 13 metres
Other new intercepts from Lost Dog Panel 3 drilling include:
LD3_192 9 metres @ 10.20 g/t Au from 13 metres, inc. 1 metre @ 48.20 g/t from 13 metres
LD3_194 12 metres @ 4.52 g/t Au from 13 metres, inc. 2 metres @ 14.28 g/t from 17 metres
LD3_439 9 metres @ 5.61 g/t Au from 15 metres, inc. 2 metres @ 18.8 g/t from 17 metres
Figure 1: Beacon Minerals Project Map.
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LOST DOG PANEL 3 GRADE CONTROL UPDATE
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Drilling at Lost Dog Panel 3 has been expedited due to increased mill throughput rates. At the end of the quarter 1,352m of a planned 20,000m had been completed at Lost Dog Panel 3 to enable mine design work to be finalised. Drilling will continue through the next quarter. Assay results so far have confirmed the modelled high‐grade zone within Panel 3. Hole LD3_174 returning 11 metres @ 21.73g/t from 13m below surface. This is the best intercept at the Lost Dog Mine to date.
Best new intercepts from Lost Dog Panel 3 drilling include:
LD3_174 11 metres @ 21.73 g/t Au from 13 metres, inc. 6 metres @ 38.05 g/t from 13 metres
LD3_192 9 metres @ 10.20 g/t Au from 13 metres, inc. 1 metre @ 48.20 g/t from 13 metres
LD3_194 12 metres @ 4.52 g/t Au from 13 metres, inc. 2 metres @ 14.28 g/t from 17 metres
LD3_439 9 metres @ 5.61 g/t Au from 15 metres, inc. 2 metres @ 18.8 g/t Au from 17 metres
Figure 2: Lost Dog Mine at the end of March 2022
EXPLORATION UPDATE
Drilling at the MacPhersons Project commenced in mid‐March with RC programs completed at Queenslander and Creswick prospects.
Aircore drill programs were also completed at Big Cat, Lynx, and Great Western prospects at the Jaurdi project. Drilling during the quarter consisted of 180 holes for 6,155m (see Table 1 for a detailed breakdown of drilling by location).
Exploration assay results for the quarter have been partially returned from regional rock chip sampling across the MacPhersons Project tenements. Exploration assays from Queenslander, Creswick, Big Cat and Great Western are expected to be returned at the end of April.
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Table 1: Drilling physicals for the March 2022 Quarter
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Prospect | Drilling Type | Number of Holes | Total Metres |
Queenslander | RC | 55 | 1,501 |
Creswick | RC | 27 | 699 |
Big Cat | Aircore | 14 | 923 |
Lynx | Aircore | 14 | 933 |
Lost Dog Grade Control | Aircore | 54 | 1,352 |
Great Western | Aircore | 16 | 747 |
Total | ‐ | 180 | 6,155 |
Queenslander and Creswick
During March 2,200m of RC drilling was completed at the Queenslander and Creswick prospects. This is Beacon's first drilling program at the MacPhersons Project. Drilling in these areas follows up a series of historic workings and drill holes.
Figure 3: Queenslander Prospect March 2022 Drilling
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As anticipated, drilling has intercepted relatively consistent geology on all sections. The interpreted ore position sits on a flat easterly dipping mafic / ultramafic contact with evidence of veining, sulphides and shearing at or near the contact. Assay results are expected by the end of April.
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MacPhersons Field Mapping and Sampling
Fieldwork at MacPhersons commenced during the quarter to assist with generating new exploration targets. Over 50 historic shafts and costeans have been identified over the project, the majority of which are without any accompanying lithology or assay data. Sampling of these features along with several rock outcrops, quartz blows and dumps will assist with establishing a robust surface dataset at MacPhersons. Although only in the early stages of this program there has already been several successes, including the Quartzite prospect.
At the Quartzite prospect several grab samples have been taken along an historic costean adjacent to the original shaft. Assays have returned up to 5.24g/t across several metres. There has been no modern‐day exploration or drilling within 200m of this location. First‐pass aircore drilling has been planned for the June quarter to further assess this target.
Regional mapping identified quartz outcrop spanning over 400m. The previously unidentified quartz along the mafic ultramafic contact sits to the south along strike from MacPhersons Reward gold mine. Three assays taken returned low order anomalism between 0.1 g/t Au and 0.19g/t Au from grab samples.
Sampling of rock dumps around a shaft North‐West of Bakers Find returned an average of 11.88g/t over 5 samples, the highest sample returning 20.20g/t. No previous exploration drilling has been targeted around this shaft.
Figure 4: Plan view of costean sampling at Quartzite prospect
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Figure 5: MacPhersons Fieldwork Map
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Websitewww.beaconminerals.com Phone 08 9093 2477
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