Lulu Creek Update

Artemis Resources Limited

13 November 2023

 

13 November 2023

Artemis Resources Limited

("Artemis" or the "Company")

(ASX/AIM: ARV, FRA: ATY, US: ARTTF)

LULU CREEK AWARDED EXPLORATION INCENTIVE SCHEME FUNDING

Highlights:

·    Artemis Resources has been awarded funding under the Western Australian State Government Exploration Incentive Scheme (EIS).

·    Funding has been allocated to the highly prospective Lulu Creek Intrusion Related Gold Project for a multi-hole RC drill program.

·    Funding of $82,500 will be used to drill test recently reported Induced Polarisation (IP) conductivity and resistivity anomalies within the Lulu Creek Intrusion.

Artemis Resources Limited (ASX/AIM: ARV) is pleased to announce the successful application for Round 28 of EIS funding by the Western Australian State Government. EIS funding is managed by the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) and is used to contribute to direct drilling costs up to a maximum of 50%. Projects are awarded funding based on applicants' ability to demonstrate innovative, soundly based mineral deposit models that have potential to add value to the state by opening new areas for exploration.

Artemis Executive Director George Ventouras commented: "This grant is confirmation of the prospectivity of the Lulu Creek project and the potential it holds. We are excited about the opportunity to drill test the targets identified by our in-house geological team and to build upon the narrative of the West Pilbara. This region is developing into a globally recognised mineral exploration precinct and we are excited to be part of it."

About Lulu Creek

Lulu Creek lies 20km to the west of the Company's Carlow Castle deposit and forms part of the prospective Greater Carlow area (Figure 1). It was initially identified in 2018 via a regional soils and rock chip program defining an area of interest over 4 km in an east-northeast orientation. Subsequent mapping and rock chip sampling identified gold associated with quartz veins and gossans, and in an unclassified weathered unit with a light covering of transported sands and gravels.

Figure 1: Lulu Creek location map with respect to Carlow Castle

In 2020, Artemis completed 126 RC drill holes with an average hole depth of 20m and a maximum hole depth of 50m. The drill program was technically successful in identifying numerous low-grade zones of gold mineralisation associated with disseminated sulphide and quartz veins within a 2km east-northeast trending quartz diorite intrusion.

Following the conclusion of the 2022 drill season, a comprehensive exploration review re-identified the potential of the Lulu Creek prospect. Subsequently, drill chips from the 2020 RC program were re-logged and assays re-processed to generate a new interpretation. Coincidently, work completed by the GSWA identified the presence of 'Sanukitoid like' intrusive bodies around the Karratha (granitoid) Dome 2.5 km north-west of the Lulu Creek intrusion indicating mantle fluid pathways in the area¹.

¹Sanukitoid intrusive bodies form via melts associated with the interaction and mixing of a crustal slab and a mantle plume in the early stages of plate tectonics between3.2 to 2.4 billion years ago. The importance of Sanukitoid intrusive bodies is due to their link between the crust and the mantle at the time of magmatic emplacement. This conduit is beneficial for the redistribution of metals and sulphur from the mantle making the region of their emplacement prospective for gold mineralisation.

A 15-line dipole-diploe Induced Polarisation (IP) survey commenced at the end of June 2023. This identified two chargeability anomalies within the Lulu Creek intrusion, adjacent to a moderate-high resistive body interpreted as representing significant alteration and veining (Figures 2 and 3). A third IP Chargeability anomaly was identified just off the intrusion along the Regal Thrust (Figure 2), which corresponds with outcropping gossanous banded iron formation (BIF) and ultramafic rocks at surface.

Figure 2: IP chargeability plan view -75 m below surface against Lulu Creek Intrusion outcrop outline in pink.

Figure 3: IP resistivity plan view -75 m below surface against Lulu Creek Intrusion outcrop outline in pink.

Exploration Incentive Scheme (EIS) Background

The EIS is a Government of Western Australia initiative that aims to encourage exploration in Western Australia for the long-term sustainability of the state's resources sector. The amount of EIS funding is $10 million per year using funds raised through mining tenement rents. The aim of the scheme is to stimulate increased private sector resource exploration, leading to new mineral and energy discoveries. New discoveries in these areas will increase knowledge of the state's geology and resources and help increase employment opportunities, especially in greenfield regions.

This announcement was approved for release by the Board.

For further information on the Company, please visit www.artemisresources.com.au or contact: 

Artemis Resources Limited George Ventouras	[e-mail]
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WH Ireland Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Antonio Bossi/James Bavister/Isaac Hooper (Corporate Finance)	Tel: [phone]
Harry Ansell/Daniel Bristowe (Corporate Broking)	Tel: + 44 20 7220 1648

About Artemis Resources

Artemis Resources (ASX/AIM: ARV; FRA: ATY; US: ARTTF) is a Perth-based exploration and development company, led by an experienced team that has a singular focus on delivering shareholder value from its Pilbara projects - the Greater Carlow and Osborne JV projects in the West Pilbara and the Paterson Central exploration project in the East Pilbara.

For more information, please visit www.artemisresources.com.au

Competent Person's Statement

The information in this report that relates to exploration results was prepared by Mr Luke Meter, a Competent Person who is a member of the Australasian Institute of Geoscientists (MAIG) and Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MAusIMM). Mr Meter is employed by Artemis Resources as Exploration Manager. Mr Meter has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity being undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the 'Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves". Mr Meter consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

Forward Looking Statements

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Related ASX Announcements

·      24/08/2023            New Gold Targets at Lulu Creek JORC Tables Updated

·      03/07/2023            Lulu Creek IP Survey Commences and Greater Carlow EM Update

·      18/05/2023            Geological Review Confirms Gold Mineralised Intrusion at Lulu Creek

·      18/09/2020:           Diamond Drilling Underway at Carlow Castle

·      05/11/2018:           Three New Gold Discoveries in the West Pilbara

 

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