McLaren Minerals Hits Rich Titanium Zones

McLaren Minerals has concluded its most extensive drilling campaign to date at the McLaren titanium project, located 150km east of Norseman in Western Australia. The program yielded impressive heavy mineral (HM) grades, with some results reaching up to 34.6 per cent.

This recent campaign involved 663 holes covering 11,568 metres. Its primary goal was to infill previous drilling and enhance confidence in the project's existing JORC-compliant 529 million tonne mineral resource, which currently averages 4.5 per cent heavy minerals. The drilling also aimed to support future ore reserve estimates and feasibility studies.

Standout assay results included 22 metres grading 7.62 per cent HM from surface, with a peak of 30.65 per cent HM over 1 metre. Significantly, some of the strongest results came from an emerging southeastern extension area outside the current indicated resource. Follow-up drilling confirmed the scale and continuity of this new zone.

McLaren Minerals' managing director, Simon Finnis, expressed satisfaction with the continuity shown in the southwestern drilling and the emergence of the southeastern extension as a key resource expansion target. The campaign also tested the Eastern Shoreline target, a potential palaeo-shoreline extending 12 kilometres east of the main resource, with assays pending.

With field work now complete, McLaren Minerals will focus on assay compilation, geological modelling, and metallurgical test work. The company is targeting an updated resource estimate and a maiden ore reserve as crucial milestones for advancing the McLaren project towards development. The ongoing analysis will assess how revised interpretations might impact the project's overall scale and its integration with the nearby Eastern Shoreline deposit.