Warriedar Resources (ASX:WA8) said that pulp re-assaying and integration of existing antimony assays saw the mineral resource estimate for the Ricciardo deposit, part of the Golden Range project in Western Australia, jump to 24.5 million tonnes at 2.5 grams per tonne of gold equivalent for 1.96 million ounces of gold equivalent, according to a Tuesday Australian bourse filing.
The firm said it declared a maiden antimony mineral resource estimate at the Ricciardo deposit in Western Australia of 12.2 million tonnes at a grade of 0.5% of antimony for 60,300 tonnes of contained antimony.
The total Golden Range and Fields Find projects mineral resource estimate came in at 31 million tonnes at 2.3 g/t of gold-equivalent for 2.3 million ounces of gold equivalent.
It plans to repeat its strategy for exploring the Ricciardo deposit at five other known deposits. Further drilling is underway at the site.