ASX and Media Release
18 JUNE 2008
WARWICK TO BRING
FORWARD DRILLING ON ITS LARGEST IRON ORE
TARGET
KEY POINTS
. Drilling
to commence at Woggaginna in late June 2008
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Woggaginna is Warwick's
largest iron ore exploration target identified to date
. Resource
drilling on other DSO projects is nearing completion - drilling results are
expected to be available progressively from late June 2008 onwards
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.
For further
information, please contact:
Warrick Hazeldine
Bruce McQuitty
Purple Communications
Warwick Resources Limited
Phone: 08 9485 1254 / Mobile: 0417 944 616
Phone: 08 9481 8181 / Mobile: 0409
929 121
Email: whazeldine@purplecom.com.au
Email: bmcquitty@warwickresources.com.au
Website: www.warwickresources.com.au
About Warwick
Resources Limited
Warwick
Resources (ASX:WRK) is an emerging iron ore explorer with a diverse asset
portfolio near Newman in the Pilbara region of Western
Australia which is host to world class iron ore mines.
The Company's projects have a combined area of 1,700km?. Since listing on ASX
in February 2007, the Company has rapidly identified significant iron ore
targets on its existing tenure and has recently acquired further iron ore
prospective ground. Through its relationship with Peak Drilling, the company
has access to drill rigs to aggressively explore its projects. In April 2008,
the Company welcomed Atlas Iron Ltd (ASX:AGO) as a cornerstone investor with a
19.9% stake and is looking forward to working with Atlas to deliver a significant iron ore resource in the region for the benefit of
the shareholders in both companies.
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.
The information in this report to
which this statement is attached that relates to Exploration Results, Mineral
Resources or Ore Reserves is based on information compiled by Mr Bruce
McQuitty, who is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. Mr
McQuitty is a full-time employee of the Company and has sufficient experience
which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under
consideration and to the activity they are undertaking to qualify as a
Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the 'Australasian Code for
Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves'. Mr
McQuitty consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on his
information in the form and context in which it appears.
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Issued by
Purple Communications
Level 3, 28
Kings Park Road, WEST PERTH
WA 6005
Ph: 08 9485 1254 Fax: 08 6263
0455
purple@purplecom.com.au