Additional Drill Rig Secured for Enlarged Drill Program
Released
Released
Announcement PDF
25 June 2025
Additional Drill Rig Secured for Enlarged Drill Program
at the Christmas Creek Gold Project
DDH1 diamond drill rig scheduled to arrive on site in the coming weeks
Highlights
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Drill contractor DDH1 engaged to undertake diamond core drilling at Christmas Creek to
allow for deeper exploration targeting and to obtain detailed structural information
relating to gold mineralisation.
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Diamond rig scheduled to arrive on site early July.
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Current RC drilling is ongoing, targeting extensions to the previously reported high-grade
intervals at the Martin prospect in drill-hole 24XRC097, including:
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10m @ 12.66g/t Au from 59m; and
10m @ 7.34g/t Au from 94m
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Initial batch of RC assays are expected to be received in mid to late July 2025.
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Heritage surveying recently completed, paving the way to test additional targets during the
current drilling program.
Figure 1: Current drilling on-going, with Precision Exploration Drilling’s RC rig on-site at Trek’s Christmas Creek Project.
Trek Metals Limited (ASX: TKM) (“Trek” or the “Company”) is pleased to advise that the Company’s
high-impact exploration program at the Christmas Creek Gold Project in the Kimberley region of
Western Australia has been expanded, with a second drilling contractor, DDH1 Drilling, engaged to
provide diamond core drilling services in addition to the Reverse Circulation (RC) program currently
underway (Figure 1).
Trek Metals’ CEO Derek Marshall, said:
“The securing of this second rig to undertake diamond drilling at Christmas Creek represents an
exciting milestone, providing the opportunity to get down deeper into the system and obtain a
much clearer picture of the geology and structural controls of the gold mineralisation.
“The initial RC holes have been drilled underneath, down-dip and along strike from the highgrade intercepts achieved at the Martin Prospect last year, as we aim to fully delineate what we
believe to be a significant stacked high-grade vein system.
“The RC drilling is on-going, and we expect to test several prospects over the coming weeks.
“We look forward to seeing what the current round of drilling reveals, with the first round of
assay results expected to be reported to the market in the coming weeks.”
The diamond drill rig is expected to arrive on site in the coming weeks, with the initial diamond
program targeting the Martin Prospect area. Diamond drilling will enable Trek to undertake deeper
exploration targeting at Christmas Creek and obtain detailed structural information relating to the
gold mineralisation.
The diamond drilling will be undertaken in parallel with the RC program that commenced at Christmas
Creek in early June (see ASX Announcement 5 June 2025). This RC drilling is currently targeting the
areas around, beneath and along strike from the high-grade intercepts reported at the Martin
Prospect in drill-hole 24XRC097, including:
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10m @ 12.66g/t Au from 59m; and
10m @ 7.34g/t Au from 94m
Initial assay results from the RC drilling are expected to be reported in mid to late July.
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Figure 2: Continental scale context and location map for the Christmas Creek Project, located at the intersection of G3 and
G5 metallogenic lineament corridors, potentially representing the intersection of the Granites-Tanami Orogen & the Halls
Creek Orogen.
Christmas Creek Project (Kimberley, Western Australia)
Located south-west of Halls Creek, the Christmas Creek Project comprises a previously unexplored,
largely concealed district-scale gold and rare earths exploration opportunity in the Kimberley region
of WA associated with major continental-scale tectonic lineament intersections.
The Christmas Creek Project was previously part of Newmont Exploration Pty Ltd’s (Newmont) global
exploration portfolio, with Trek acquiring the project in December 2023. The Company has also
secured additional tenement applications to add to this district-scale greenfields gold and rare earths
exploration project.
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Authorised by the Board of Directors
ENDS
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Nicholas Read
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COMPETENT PERSONS STATEMENT
The information in this report relating to Exploration Results is based on information compiled by the
Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Derek Marshall, a Competent Person, and Member of the
Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG). Mr Marshall has sufficient experience relevant to the style
of mineralisation and to the type of activity described to qualify as a competent person as defined in
the 2012 Edition of the “Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources
and Ore Reserves.” Mr Marshall has disclosed that he holds fully paid Ordinary Shares and
Performance Rights in the Company. Mr Marshall consents to the inclusion in this announcement of
the matters based on his information in the form and content in which it appears.
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