Perth, June 18, 2008 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Pilbara explorer, Warwick Resources Limited (ASX: WRK) today announced it will bring forward the scheduled drilling of its largest iron ore target at Woggaginna.
The Woggaginna project is located 55km southeast of Newman and 35km south of BHP Billiton's Jimblebar iron ore mine and railway in Western Australia's Pilbara region.
As announced last month, the Woggaginna project contains an extensive cluster of banded iron formations (BIFs) with corresponding zones of iron enrichment. Over 40 kilometres of cumulative strike length of BIF units have been identified from magnetics.
Geological mapping and rock chip sampling has confirmed areas of strong iron enrichment totalling 250,000m2 associated with the BIF units, with grades typically between 57% and 63% Fe (see ASX announcement 18 May 2008 for full details). Significantly, only one third of the total extent of BIF units within the project area have been mapped and sampled to date.
The opportunity to bring forward the drilling of Woggaginna has arisen due to better than expected drilling progress on the Company's iron ore resource projects (Jimblebar Range, Jimblebar CID and Caramulla South).
The Company is experiencing delays with assay turnaround due to the large volume of samples generated from its resource drilling program. However, the Company has been advised that assay results are expected to become available next week and then progressively over the forthcoming month.
Warwick's iron ore projects near Newman are:
Jimblebar Range is an area of iron enrichment approximately 1.8km long and from 50m to 200m wide, developed over a steeply dipping sequence of banded iron formation. Initial drilling results intersected thick high grade near surface mineralisation, including 60m @ 60.5% Fe from 6m depth, 58m @ 60.6% Fe from 10m depth, 44m @ 61.3% Fe from 14m depth and 36m @ 61.3% Fe from 26m depth (see announcement dated 8 April 2008).
Caramulla South has extensive surficial iron enrichment within an east-west striking strip of Marra Mamba Formation, up to 120m wide and 4km long, near the northern margin of the exploration licence. An initial drill traverse returned significant intersections, including: 21m @ 56.3% Fe from 15m depth and 11m @ 59.2% Fe from 9m depth.
Woggaginna has extensive areas of surficial iron enrichment, developed over banded iron formation confirmed by detailed mapping and sampling. Grades up to 63.0% Fe and low contaminants indicate DSO potential.
Jimblebar CID - a 3km long mesa from 75m to 150m wide capped by pisolitic iron mineralisation. An initial drill traverse completed across the CID demonstrated that the channel contains up to 7m of iron-rich pisolite grading to 57% Fe. Phosphorous levels are very low, ranging from 0.020% to 0.025%.
Ten Mile CID is a recently identified channel iron target over 3km in length and up to 400m wide, with potential for further mineralisation beneath shallow cover. Initial rock chip sampling returned grades up to 58.5% Fe.
Grassroots Iron Targets - Areas of surficial iron enrichment, developed over banded iron formation, have been mapped at Black Hills. Multiple targets for channel iron mineralisation have been identified on the Company's tenements.
Contact
Bruce McQuitty
Warwick Resources Limited
Phone: 08 9481 8181 / Mobile: 0409 929 121
Website: www.warwickresources.com.au
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