Unity Extends O’Phlay Gold Discovery 35m Northeast

Camp Gold Zone Extends Northeast

Unity Metals Limited (ASX:UM1) has pushed its O’Phlay gold discovery 35 metres further northeast, with hole 26DDCM007 confirming that the broad stockwork vein zone remains open both along strike and at depth. The result adds another step to an early-stage discovery in eastern Cambodia, rather than closing off a defined orebody.

The hole returned 1 metre at 10.2 grams per tonne gold from 20.6 metres, followed by 29 metres at 0.5g/t from 72 metres, including 3 metres at 2.2g/t, and a further 3 metres at 1.5g/t from 114 metres. The principal mineralised interval sits within a roughly 50-metre true-width zone of quartz-arsenopyrite stockwork veins hosted by altered diorite.

Three Holes Establish a Broad Mineralised Zone

Across the three holes drilled into the Camp stockwork zone so far, Unity reports a weighted average grade of 1.2g/t gold. The comparison includes the earlier 40-metre intersection at 1.9g/t in 26DDCM001 and 70.4 metres at 1.1g/t in 26DDCM005, results that established the discovery’s broad and persistent character over the initial drill area.

Magnetic susceptibility data provide Unity with a targeting tool as well as a geological clue. The mineralised and altered core in 26DDCM007 averaged 1.2 x 10^-3 SI units, compared with 23 x 10^-3 SI units in adjacent unaltered diorite. The company interprets the contrast as magnetite destruction caused by hydrothermal alteration, leaving the gold-bearing zones as magnetic lows within the otherwise magnetic intrusion.

Southwest Extension Fails to Repeat the Signal

The picture is less complete in the opposite direction. Hole 26DDCM006, drilled 45 metres southwest of the earlier Camp holes, intersected diorite with only thin weakly mineralised intervals and no significant gold intersections. Unity says the stockwork may terminate to the southwest, or could run westward between the 26DDCM005 and 006 collars. That uncertainty is material: the latest result extends the known zone, but does not yet define its limits.

The company has planned two immediate follow-up holes to test the northeast and possible western extensions before moving across O’Phlay’s wider target pipeline. A further 20-hole Phase 2 program is scheduled to restart after the Cambodian Pchum Ben public holidays in October, with assays expected progressively through the fourth quarter.

Phase 2 Drilling Broadens the O’Phlay Test

Five holes are planned at Toulsroloav, 800 metres west-northwest of Camp, beneath the project’s largest historical open pits. Another five will target Small Creek, 1.8 kilometres southwest, where historical underground mining focused on high-grade arsenopyrite-rich veins. Unity also plans to test a 300-metre interpreted demagnetised zone south-southwest of Camp associated with gold-in-soil results of up to 380 parts per billion.

Unity says the recent $3.5 million placement leaves it funded for the planned drilling. The program will use a track-mounted rig capable of drilling deeper holes, replacing the man-portable rig used to date. The company’s own caution is important here: current drill spacing is not sufficient to support a mineral resource estimate, and mining would require further government and environmental approvals because the Cambodian licences lie wholly or partly within protected areas.