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    Katanning drilling results: early pit, schedule and geotechnical implications

    June 17, 2026|

    Reviewed by Tom Sullivan

    Katanning drilling results: early pit, schedule and geotechnical implications

    First reported on Australian Mining

    30 Second Briefing

    Drilling at Ausgold’s Katanning gold project in Western Australia has returned thick, high‑grade intercepts including 26m at 3.03g/t, 10m at 3.78g/t and 9m at similar grades, boosting confidence in the planned early years of production. Step‑out and infill holes are expanding known mineralisation across multiple deposits within the KGP and pointing to extensions beyond the current resource envelope. For mine planners and geotechs, the results suggest scope to optimise early pit shells, scheduling and geotechnical domains around thicker, higher‑grade zones.

    Technical Brief

    • Katanning Gold Project is a multi-deposit system in Western Australia, operated by Ausgold.
    • Recent drilling is extending mineralisation laterally beyond current resource outlines across several KGP deposits.
    • Step-out holes are targeting untested positions along strike and down-dip of existing pit designs.
    • Infill drilling is tightening drill spacing in early-stage production areas to firm up resource confidence.
    • Multiple lodes within the KGP footprint provide optionality for staging pits and haulage development.
    • Results support reassessment of pit wall positions and pushbacks where mineralisation continues outside modelled shells.
    • Geotechnical domain boundaries may need updating as new intercepts confirm continuity across structural or lithological contacts.
    • Similar multi-deposit gold camps in Western Australia have used such drilling phases to re-optimise early cashflow sequencing.

    Our Take

    The new Katanning gold project intercepts sit within a relatively small subset of the 408 gold‑keyword pieces in our database that report multi‑metre intervals above 3 g/t, suggesting Ausgold is moving KGP into a more competitive grade bracket for future development studies in Western Australia.

    Compared with other Western Australian project items such as Victory Metals’ North Stanmore heavy rare earth project, Katanning’s drilling-led upside indicates Ausgold is still in a resource‑growth and optionality‑building phase rather than a permitting or approvals bottleneck phase.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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