Accelerate Resources has fired up the reverse circulation rig at its Woodie Woodie North manganese project in Western Australia’s East Pilbara, launching the first modern drill test of a highly prospective 12-kilometre-long corridor.
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The maiden 3500-metre program will probe Gingarrigan, a prospect within Woodie Woodie North, 10km south-east of the company’s existing Area 42 resource.
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program → probe → resource
Expected to take five weeks, it will test priority outcrops for thickness, grade and continuity at depth.
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The 12km corridor stretches southeast from Area 42 to its El Largo prospect, with systematic mapping identifying more than 200 manganese outcrops along the Gingarrigan and El Largo trends.
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mapping → stretch → trends
Rock chips have graded up to 59.4 per cent manganese at El Largo and 59.6 per cent at Faris, another Woodie Woodie North prospect 2km southeast of Area 42.
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Accelerate says the trend may host a series of shallow manganese deposits that could build on the existing deposit.
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Woodie Woodie North, 260km east of Port Hedland, covers 432 square kilometres and includes seven mapped manganese trends extending over 42km of strike.
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Consolidated Minerals’ operating manganese mine lies 55km south of the project, in one of WA’s most significant manganese provinces.
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mine → operate → provinces
The district’s mining history stretches back to the early 1950’s; manganese was the first bulk commodity shipped from the port, more than a decade before iron ore exports took over.
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‘Gingarrigan represents a genuine opportunity to further grow the project.
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Despite the promising surface signs, the Area 42-El Largo trend remains largely untested.
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Historic drilling outside Area 42 was limited to a handful of scattered, shallow vertical holes drilled in 1996.
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Those holes averaged just nine metres deep, with none extending beyond 15m, leaving plenty of prospective ground untouched beneath the surface.
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Gingarrigan lies outside the project’s existing 1.2-million-tonne inferred resource, grading 19.1 per cent manganese, and its conceptual exploration target of 5.3 to 10.7 million tonnes at 10 to 19 per cent manganese.
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Neither Gingarrigan nor El Largo is included in those figures, so any mineralisation defined by the campaign could add to the project’s inventory.
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Accelerate Resources chief executive officer Luke Meter said: “Today marks the start of a key program for the Woodie Woodie North Manganese Project.
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We have identified over 200 manganese outcrops in the Gingarrigan and El Largo trends alone.
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Accelerate will now systematically drill test this area for the first time.
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Gingarrigan represents a genuine opportunity to further grow the project.
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Gingarrigan → represent → project
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Once the Gingarrigan program is complete, the rig will move to Area 42 for a second phase of work, targeting extensions to its 700,000-tonne resource grading 20.7 per cent manganese.
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It will also follow up a recent diamond hole at Nathan’s Flat, within the deposit area, where visual manganese mineralisation was identified across 72m from 5.6m downhole.
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The hole ended in mineralisation, leaving the zone’s full depth extent untested.
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Laboratory assays are still needed to confirm grade, but the intercept provides a compelling target for the upcoming resource drilling.
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Gingarrigan samples will be sent to the laboratory in batches, with assays reported regularly after receipt and validation.
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The company is also awaiting metallurgical test results from three Area 42 diamond holes ahead of further resource drilling.
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Meanwhile, mapping and rock-chip sampling will continue at Faris, across the Sea Turtle iron-manganese alteration system and along the broader 12km Area 42–El Largo corridor.
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To fund the ongoing Woodie Woodie North exploration push, Accelerate has received firm commitments for a $1.1M placement, issuing 275 million new shares at A$0.004 each, with settlement scheduled for the end of the month.
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Directors and management are also looking to put some skin in the game, flagging plans to chip in A$70,000, subject to shareholder approval.
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The money raised will support discovery drilling at Gingarrigan along with resource drilling and permitting at Area 42.
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Part of the funds is also earmarked for geochemistry and drilling at Balagundi, the company’s gold project near Kalgoorlie, as well as general working capital and placement costs.
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For three decades, a 12km manganese trend dotted with high-grade outcrops has sat quietly in one of WA’s premier manganese districts.
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With the drill rods finally spinning and assays in the making, Accelerate is just weeks away from finding out what lies beneath the surface.
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