Australia’s Danakali completes extensive soil sampling on Orson project
National Stock Exchange of Australia-listed Danakali has completed an extensive soil and stream sampling programme on priority targets at the Orson multi-commodity project, in Gascoyne.
The samples include 330 ultra fine fraction soil samples, 63 stream samples and 37 rock chip samples, together with geological mapping having been done.
Danakali plans to undertake an electromagnetic survey over priority targets of Orson early in 2027, to confirm the prospectivity of magnetic targets for sulphide-hosted nickel/copper/platinum group metal (PGM) mineralisation.
The company says its field mapping has revealed that amphibolite and ferricrete rock-types are often coincident with the numerous magnetic anomalies investigated in the field. The host rock source of the nickel/copper/PGM anomalism has not been confirmed to date, but it is expected that the recent soil, stream and rock-chip samples, together with pending petrography, will help resolve the probable source rocks.
Danakali chairperson Seamus Cornelius says it is good to have the expanded priority target zones covered by soil and stream sampling now, and he looks forward to the results early in the new year.
“The pending results from the geochemistry, petrography and geophysics will be integrated with field observations in early 2027, and we are confident this will lead to the generation of numerous drill targets, and an expanded exploration programme for the 2027 field season.
“The location of the Orson project at the boundary of the Narryer Terrane and the Errabiddy Shear Zone remains highly prospective and under-explored for nickel/copper/PGE intrusion-hosted mineralisation, and orogenic shear-hosted gold,” he adds.