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    Pantoro opens new fronts at Lake Cowan: design and resource notes for mine planners

    July 30, 2026|

    Reviewed by Joe Ashwell

    Pantoro opens new fronts at Lake Cowan: design and resource notes for mine planners

    First reported on Australian Mining

    30 Second Briefing

    Pantoro Gold has restarted drilling at Lake Cowan in Western Australia’s Norseman project, launching the first systematic aircore programme on the salt lake since the early 1990s as part of a broader growth push across the high‑grade goldfield. The campaign, which began on 30 June, is targeting new near‑surface mineralisation beneath lake sediments to open additional mining fronts beyond existing Bullen and Scotia operations. For geologists and mine planners, the work could materially extend resource envelopes and influence future pit and underground designs across the Norseman tenements.

    Technical Brief

    • The Norseman project area is described as one of Western Australia’s highest‑grade historic goldfields.
    • Restart of lake drilling follows a hiatus of more than 30 years in systematic work there.

    Our Take

    Pantoro Gold’s new aircore work at Lake Cowan complements the recent high-grade Racetrack and Scotia/Maybell intercepts at the Norseman project, signalling a deliberate push to turn what was a largely brownfields underground story into a broader camp-scale gold play in WA.

    With Lake Cowan seeing its first drilling in more than 30 years, Pantoro is effectively testing a generational exploration gap; in our database, few Western Australian gold stories combine such long-undrilled ground with an already-advancing multi-mine development like Norseman.

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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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