Western Gold Resources Limited announced that it has received the final assay results from 35 reverse circulation drill holes for 3,214m recently completed at the Brilliant and Brilliant North prospects at its Gold Duke project. The gold mineralisation at the Brilliant and Brilliant North deposits are hosted within mafic and ultramafics units of the Brilliant Shear Zone (BSZ) and dip vertically or steeply to the west. Much of the recent and historical drilling is on an azimuth of 90o inclined at -600 which is approximately perpendicular to the mineralisation.

The drilling program at Brilliant and Brilliant North (M53/1017) is WGR's first drilling program within the BSZ. Gold mineralisation occurs as quartz veins and lode gold in dolerite and ultramafic host rocks with associated carbonate-chlorite-sericite-fuchsite-scheelite alteration. The Brilliant and North Brilliant mines produced 7,850 tonnes @14.27 g/t in the 1920's. The drill program was aimed at understanding the controls of mineralisation given much of the historic drilling at the project consisted of Aircore and RAB drilling.

A total of 35 RC drill holes for 3214 m were completed to test the BSZ at the Brilliant and Brilliant North prospects. Drilling infilled the pattern to a nominal 20 m north and 10 m east spacing, as well as testing northern and southern extensions to the known mineralisation. All significant intercepts include: 4m @ 4.25 g/t Au and 0.47% Cu from 111m (WGRC0350) 5m @ 5.85 g/t Au from 20m (including 1m @ 22.94 g/t Au) (WGRC0371) 7m @ 5.56 g/t Au from 63m (including 1m @ 10.32 g/t Au) (WGRC0373) 9m @ 4.37 g/t Au from 53m (WGRC0369) 9m @ 2.22 g/t Au from 26m (WGRC0368) 11m @ 1.82 g/t Au from 45m, (WGRC0370).

At Brilliant North, drilling has returned encouraging results below and along strike of the historic shallow workings. The drilling defined numerous steeply dipping high-grade gold lodes and confirms the potential of the prospect that remains open to the north and south. Also, of significance are results from WGRC0350 that contained visible chalcopyrite, chrysocolla and azurite.

High-grade results of 4m @ 4.25 g/t Au and 0.47% Cu from 111m supports WGR belief that the BSZ has significant exploration upside along its 5km strike length. The concealed Kingfisher North prospect lies 5km north of the Brilliant Project within the BSZ and is interpreted to be an Au-Cu intrusive target that will be drill tested in the third quarter of 2022 as part of a WA Government EIS Co-funded drilling grant of $118,500 (See ASX announcement 28 October 2021). WGR are currently finalizing approvals to test the BSZ north of Brilliant and at Kingfisher North prospects.

Drilling at Brilliant defined drilling two mineralised zones within a package of sheared altered (carbonate-chlorite-sericite) ultramafics and hematite-altered BIF. The drilling supports historic RC and RAB drilling as well as defining broad footwall mineralisation below historic workings. The new drilling assisted in further understanding the controls of mineralization resulting in a significant change to the previous interpretation.