en.Wedoany.com Reported - Australia's Southern Cross Gold Consolidated has reported high-grade antimony mineralization directly above the planned exploration decline from the latest drilling results at the Sunday Creek gold-antimony project in Victoria, further enhancing the project's critical mineral value.
Six recently completed drill holes at the Golden Dyke target targeted the upper portion of the epithermal system, where antimony is expected to be most enriched near the surface. The best result came from hole SDDSC233, which intersected 7.9 meters at 363.1 meters with a gold equivalent grade of 19.9 g/t (2.8 g/t gold, 7.1% antimony), including a 3.7-meter section grading 37.5 g/t gold equivalent (3.5 g/t gold, 14.2% antimony).
Southern Cross Gold Consolidated President and CEO Michael Hudson stated that these results reinforce the strategic importance of the project. He noted that the project's critical mineral potential is real, shallow, and located directly on the decline path. These results demonstrate that the antimony story at Sunday Creek is as strong and strategically significant as the gold story.
The company stated that the results confirm the presence of antimony-rich mineralization in the upper part of the Sunday Creek system, consistent with the characteristics of global epithermal gold-antimony deposits. Individual assay results showed a 0.13-meter interval in hole SDDSC233 grading 47% antimony and 20.1 g/t gold, while another intercept in hole SDDSC228 returned 0.13 meters grading 46.6% antimony and 1.3 g/t gold.
Southern Cross Gold Consolidated indicated that the project has now returned 108 composite intercepts with antimony grades exceeding 10%, highlighting its potential relevance to Western defense and semiconductor supply chains. The drilling program also identified four new vein sets in three drill holes and confirmed the continuity of the Golden Dyke mineralization system through infill drilling. Currently, 11 drill rigs are operating at Sunday Creek, with results from an additional 69 drill holes pending release.
