Trek Metals Reports High-Grade Gold Hits at Christmas Creek Project
Trek Metals Limited (ASX: TKM) has announced significant high-grade gold intercepts from its initial 2025 Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling programme at the Martin Prospect within its 100%-owned Christmas Creek Gold Project in Western Australia's Kimberley region.
Strong Start with Multiple High-Grade Gold Intercepts
The company has made an impressive start to its 2025 drill programme, with preliminary assays from the first five RC holes revealing multiple high-grade gold intersections that extend the zone of mineralisation discovered in 2024. Notably, four of the five initial step-out holes intercepted significant gold mineralisation:
- 4m @ 14.18g/t Au from 43m in hole 25XCRC001, including 2m @ 27.95g/t Au
- 3m @ 6.17g/t Au from 94m in hole 25XCRC005, including 2m @ 9.20g/t Au
- 3m @ 2.15g/t Au from 78m in hole 25XCRC003
- 1m @ 1.5g/t Au from 106m in hole 25XCRC004
These new results build upon last year's impressive intercept in hole 24XCRC097, which returned 10m at 12.66g/t Au from 59m and 10m at 7.34g/t Au from 94m.
"This is a tremendous start to our 2025 drilling campaign. Intersecting significant high-grade gold mineralisation in four out of the first five RC holes gives us confidence we are in a fertile environment with the potential to host significant gold mineralisation," said Trek Metals CEO, Derek Marshall.
Diamond Drilling Commences to Better Understand Structural Controls
Trek has now commenced diamond drilling at the Martin Prospect, with a DDH1 diamond rig on site to obtain detailed structural information on the orientation and controls of the mineralisation. This critical data will help optimise follow-up drilling and improve the company's understanding of the gold system at the Christmas Creek gold discovery.
The diamond drilling will provide invaluable structural information, as well as the ability to drill deeper below the current intercepts. This will give Trek a significant advantage in terms of understanding how to unlock the broader potential of the project.
Understanding the Emerging Gold Trends at Martin
The early drilling data has revealed two dominant mineralised trends at the Christmas Creek gold discovery:
- A northeast-southwest oriented trend extending over approximately 1km
- A southeast-northwest trend extending approximately 1.5km
The high-grade mineralisation appears to be hosted in a stacked vein array with a southwest-northeast orientation and is interpreted to be in a sub-vertical orientation dipping steeply to the southeast, which refines the company's previous geological model.
What is Orogenic Gold and Why It Matters to Investors
Orogenic gold systems are among the most economically important gold deposit types globally. These systems typically form along major structural corridors during mountain-building events and can host substantial, high-grade gold deposits.
Key characteristics that make orogenic gold systems attractive to investors include:
- World-class potential: They can host large, long-life gold operations like those in the Kalgoorlie and Tanami regions
- Structural control: They're associated with major crustal-scale faults and adjacent folds
- Large fluid systems: They have potential for Tier 1, multi-million-ounce discoveries
- Deep, high-grade systems: They offer long mine life and underground development potential
- Strong economics: Their high-grade ore shoots remain profitable across market cycles
Trek's Christmas Creek gold discovery is largely under shallow cover, meaning the gold-bearing host rocks have not been subjected to extensive historical prospecting, creating an opportunity for new discoveries in what the company considers "a new search space."
Expanding the Exploration Footprint
The RC rig has now moved to test the high-potential Turner prospect, with plans to subsequently drill the Zahn and Coogan-Brockhurst prospects in the coming weeks. These targets represent different geological settings across the Christmas Creek Project:
- Turner: An undrilled prospect with a gold nugget field identified via stream sediment catchment analysis
- Zahn: The largest surface geochemical target at the project, reinterpreted as a classic structural setting for orogenic gold
- Coogan-Brockhurst: An interpreted intrusion-related gold-copper system with an adjacent discrete gravity feature
"While diamond drilling progresses, the RC rig has moved to do an initial test of the high-potential Turner prospect. We are also excited to test some of the other high-priority prospects at Christmas Creek such as Zahn and Coogan-Brockhurst. This is an exciting time for Trek as our drilling gains momentum and we work to uncover the potential for a large orogenic gold discovery in the Kimberley," noted Derek Marshall.
Strategic Project Location
The Christmas Creek gold discovery is located at the intersection of major continental-scale tectonic lineaments, potentially representing the junction of the Granites-Tanami Orogen and the Halls Creek Orogen. This geological setting shares similarities with the rocks that host world-class gold deposits in the Tanami region.
This location may represent a triple junction with the Granites-Tanami Orogen, Wunaamin Miliwundi Orogen and the Halls Creek Orogen. The mineralisation observed in recent logging is typical of orogenic style gold with strong sericite-chlorite and potassic alteration, silicification, iron sulphides, quartz veins, quartz breccias and, on occasion, visible gold.
Why Investors Should Watch Trek Metals
Trek Metals presents a compelling investment case for those interested in gold exploration:
- High-grade gold intercepts: The initial drilling results demonstrate significant gold grades near surface
- Systematic approach: The company is methodically testing multiple large-scale targets across the project
- New frontier exploration: Christmas Creek represents underexplored terrain with potential for major discoveries
- Strong technical team: The company's exploration strategy shows a sophisticated understanding of orogenic gold systems
- Proximity to established gold camps: The project's geological setting shares similarities with world-class gold provinces
With diamond drilling now underway to better understand the structural controls on mineralisation and RC drilling continuing across multiple prospects, Trek Metals is positioned for a potentially transformative period as it works to unlock the broader potential of the Christmas Creek gold discovery.
Furthermore, Trek's promising results come at a time when other explorers like Hammer Metals have unveiled gold-copper discoveries in North Queensland, highlighting the current dynamism in the Australian gold exploration sector.
Similar to Marvel Gold's acquisition of the Hanang project, Trek's exploration at Christmas Creek demonstrates the ongoing hunt for high-potential gold assets in underexplored regions.
In addition, Trek's multi-target strategy mirrors the approach of companies like S2 Resources, which recently launched drilling campaigns across multiple Australian projects, showing how established explorers are expanding their footprints in the current gold market.
The Christmas Creek project, with its promising initial results, seems positioned to join other successful gold exploration targets in historically productive regions that continue to yield new discoveries despite decades of prior mining activity.
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