Drill rods spin as Gateway tests standout WA gold target

The West Australian03-16

When geologists start drawing comparisons to Jundee and St Ives, two of the most celebrated gold camps in the Eastern Goldfields, it’s a sign that something genuinely exciting might be stirring. That’...

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The target is hosted within a sheared, differentiated dolerite unit - a rock type known to be a highly effective trap for gold mineralisation.The contrast between the dolerite and the surrounding volcanic and basement rocks has created exactly the structural environment that often attracts gold. Geologists call it ‘textbook’. Punters might just call it prime gold country.The initial two-week aircore program will step-march along the outcropping 7km portion of the system, focusing first on the areas of strongest gold-in-soil anomalies and nugget fields. The heavier guns will then roll in, with reverse circulation (RC) drilling attacking the deeper into zones of elevated veining and alteration identified by the aircore while also testing areas too deep for the lighter aircore rigs.The full drill program is expected to run for around three months, with assay results to hit the market as soon as they are received, meaning a steady flow of potential news catalysts.We’ve been building towards this drill program since first delineating the extensive surface gold anomalism (plus the many hundreds of nuggets which have since been found) along the outcropping portion of the system back in September 2025. Gateway Mining chief executive officer Richard PughGreat Western forms part of the company’s flagship Yandal gold project, comprising roughly 1,780 square kilometres of world-class Yandal Greenstone Belt real estate 85 kilometres northeast of Wiluna. Gateway’s tenure sits just 50km northeast of Northern Star Resources’ Jundee Mill, within the northeastern Yilgarn Craton.Jundee has been a cornerstone operation in the region since mining began 30 years ago, producing gold from both underground and open-pit operations. Its success has long underlined the prospectivity of the Yandal Greenstone Belt, particularly for Archaean, high-grade, narrow-vein lode-style deposits.Gateway’s broader Yandal project already hosts a resource of 8.17 million tonnes grading 1.52g/t gold for 400,400 ounces. The resource is centred on the Horse Well Gold Camp and the Dusk ’til Dawn deposit, providing a solid foundation for ongoing exploration success.Initial geological mapping across the newly identified gold-anomalous areas at Great Western has revealed a highly altered, structurally complex landscape riddled with multiple geological structures. Encouragingly, the structural setting also bears similarities to the nearby Horse Well Gold Camp, hinting the area could host a comparable large-scale gold system.Gateway also appears ready to crank things up a notch. The company has flagged that additional drill rigs could be brought in as the program gathers momentum.With $19.4 million in cash and a further $9.3 million in liquid ASX securities on hand at the end of December 2025, Gateway has plenty of firepower to keep the drill rods turning without having to go cap in hand to the market.For now, the rigs have only just begun scratching the surface of what could be a sizeable new gold system hiding in plain sight within one of WA’s most fertile gold belts.If the drilling starts to mirror the geological promise hinted at by the nuggets, soil anomalies and textbook structural setting, Great Western could quickly become the Yandal belt’s next serious discovery story.Is your ASX-listed company doing something interesting? 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