Buxton Resources kicks off Widowmaker drilling

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Buxton Resources (ASX: BUX) has commenced an RC drilling program at the company’s Widowmaker nickel-copper project in Western Australia.

“Our team now has safe access to the Widowmaker nickel-copper project, and drilling has commenced,” Buxton Resources managing director Anthony Maslin said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“We have some excellent nickel-copper targets at Widowmaker, which provide our company with great opportunities to potentially discover a new nickel sulphide deposit.”

Buxton has contracted a 3,000 metre initial RC program to test eight moderate to highly conductive targets that it considers could represent bedrock massive or disseminated sulphide bodies.

 

Ground EM conductors over magnetic image – Widowmaker nickel-copper project. Source: Company announcement

 

The Widowmaker nickel-copper project is located approximately 22 kilometres along strike from Sirius Resources’ (ASX: SIR) Nova-Bollinger nickel-copper discovery in the emerging Fraser Range Nickel Province.

The project covers an area of 225 square kilometres, and over 20km of potential strike of the gneiss units that host ‘the Eye’ mafic – ultramafic intrusive that contains Sirius’ Nova- Bollinger deposit.