Footprint Extends Both Ways
Drilling has now intersected mineralisation 117m north of the Webbs resource outline, complementing the 300m southern extension established in August.
The northern step-out returned 5m at 237g/t silver from 93m, equivalent to 326g/t silver equivalent, including 2m grading 567g/t silver.
Both ends of the mineralised trend remain open, although additional drilling is required to establish continuity and the eventual scale of any resource expansion.
All reported drill intercepts represent downhole lengths rather than true widths, which Rapid estimates at approximately 60% of the downhole measurements in most cases.
New Soil Anomalies
Soil sampling has identified anomalous silver extending at least 200m north of the northern drilling and a previously unrecognised north-west-trending structure with approximately 600m of untested strike.
The north-west target produced a soil silver response comparable with that over the known Webbs resource, although the anomaly has not been drilled and mineralisation is not assured.
At the Stormer prospect about three kilometres south-west of Webbs, four soil samples returned between 1.64 and 2.91 parts per million silver along an open-ended north-east-trending anomaly.
Rapid has lodged an application for an initial 650m drilling program around Stormer and other nearby anomalies, while excluding soil results affected by historical mining contamination from its bedrock interpretations.