Punching hard: TG Metals’ drilling has intersected gold to the south of the Van Uden deposit. Pic: Getty Images
- Drilling south of Van Uden intersected multiple gold zones extending strike by 550m to over 3km
- Best assays include 1m at 9.83g/t Au from 71m and 1m at 9.66g/t Au from 74m
- New discovery has potential to materially add to current resource of 227,140oz gold
Special Report: TG Metals has made a new gold discovery after first pass exploration drilling to the south of the existing Van Uden deposit in WA returned significant, shallow gold hits.
Importantly, the drilling of soil anomalies intersected multiple gold zones in similar positions to those observed in the deposit, extending its strike by more than 550m to over 3km.
Notable assays from the drilling included:
- 3m grading 3.46g/t gold from a down-hole depth of 710m, including 1m at 9.83g/t from 71m
- 11m at 1.90g/t gold from 65m, including 1m at 6.18g/t from 65m and 1m at 9.66g/t from 74m, along with 3m at 0.9g/t gold from 44m and 5m at 0.31g/t gold from 35m
The results are a strong hint that TG Metals (ASX:TG6) is on the right track to boost the existing resource of 6.35Mt at 1.1g/t for 227,140oz of contained gold at the Van Uden project.
“This step-out drilling program to the south of the Van Uden MRE has resulted in a new discovery of significant widths and grades of gold mineralisation in proximity to the Van Uden shear,” chief executive officer David Selfe said.
“This extends the drill defined gold deposit to more than 3km and provides the potential to materially add to the current resource.
“The Van Uden shear is proving to be a fertile conduit for gold mineralisation, initially highlighted by the gold in soil anomalies defined in 2025 and now confirmed by very positive drill results.
“Getting economic widths and grades first up is very encouraging as is the inclusion of high grades above 6g/t gold in the drillhole intercepts.
“There is an additional 2.7km of Van Uden shear contained within Mining Leases to the south of the Van Uden MRE, yet to be fully tested with drilling.
“We still have a lot of drilling assays pending and each return of data is increasing our confidence of growing the Van Uden deposit. Further drilling will recommence later this month including our first diamond core drilling.”
Exploration drilling
Van Uden is a previously producing project close to the third-party Marvel Loch (producing) and Westonia-Edna May (care and maintenance) gold processing plants.
The current drill program is designed to test gold-in-soil anomalies and projected continuations under shallow cover, along strike of the known Van Uden gold deposit.
In September 2025, the company noted that re-assaying of historical soil sampling confirmed highly anomalous gold in soils on-trend to the north and south of the resource within Van Uden’s granted mining leases.
The first assays returned from the south of Van Uden show that gold mineralisation continues beyond the limit of modelling with similar widths and grades to the known deposit.
Historical drilling in the area failed to reach the gold mineralised depth.
Next steps
TG6 plans to drill a diamond tail for TGRC0128 to intercept the footwall mineralisation and provide structural information to guide further drill planning.
Drilling to update the resource is continuing.
Additionally, four exploration holes are outstanding in the far south target positions.
The company is also carrying out mineralisation and geology interpolation as logging and assay data becomes available.
Further drilling at the Gold City prospect will begin once approvals have been granted.
Other data pending includes soil sampling assays for the Cronin West exploration tenement, Van Uden far north (Powerline Prospecting Licence) and Gold City infill in the coming weeks.
This article was developed in collaboration with TG Metals, a Stockhead advertiser at the time of publishing.
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