Visible Gold Spurs New Hope at Christmas Creek Gold Project

Exploration Breakthrough at Christmas Creek

Trek Metals Limited (ASX, TKM) has unveiled promising results from its 2025 drilling campaign at the Christmas Creek Gold Project, located in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The highlight is the observation of visible gold within diamond drill core samples, marking a significant milestone in the project’s exploration journey.

The recent program, comprising over 10,000 metres of drilling, including reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling, targeted six main prospects, Martin, Zahn, Coogan, Brockhurst, Jobs, and Turner. The presence of visible gold, particularly at the Martin Prospect, reinforces the potential for high-grade coarse gold mineralisation in the area.

Key Prospect Highlights

At Martin, diamond drilling intersected visible gold veins approximately 500 metres from previous high-grade RC intercepts, such as 10 metres at 12.66 grams per tonne gold. These findings provide valuable structural insights that will guide future drilling and targeting efforts. Step-out RC drilling at the Zahn Prospect returned significant gold intercepts along a largely untested mineralised contact extending over several kilometres, suggesting substantial upside potential.

Meanwhile, the Coogan-Brockhurst-Jobs area has been reinterpreted as a single, large-scale intrusion-related copper-gold system exceeding 10 kilometres in length. This discovery elevates the prospect’s priority status and opens new avenues for exploration, particularly given the challenges posed by ineffective surface geochemistry due to transported cover.

Ongoing Work and Future Plans

Trek Metals is awaiting assay results from the diamond core samples and rock chip assays expected in late November. These data, combined with detailed structural and petrographic analyses, will refine the geological models and help identify key controls on mineralisation. The company also plans to explore alternative geophysical and geochemical techniques to overcome surface sampling limitations, especially at the Coogan-Brockhurst-Jobs system.

While the Turner Prospect was downgraded after recent drilling failed to intersect significant gold, the broader Christmas Creek Project remains highly prospective. The project benefits from its location at the intersection of major tectonic lineaments and shares geological similarities with world-class gold provinces.

Trek Metals’ CEO Derek Marshall emphasized the project’s potential, stating that the recent drilling campaign has materially increased prospectivity and identified multiple priority targets. The company is preparing to resume field activities to investigate newly generated targets, including rare earth element prospects near the Cummins Range deposit.

Context and Significance

Acquired from Newmont Exploration Pty Ltd in late 2023, the Christmas Creek Project is a largely underexplored greenfield opportunity with district-scale potential for gold, copper-gold, and rare earth mineralisation. The recent drilling results mark a critical step in unlocking this potential, providing both encouraging assay results and structural data to guide future exploration.