South Australian miner Havilah Resources has started drilling ten shallow percussion holes at the Lilydale iron ore project, located 50 km southeast of Yunta on the transcontinental railway, some 200 km east of Port Pirie.
The holes are designed to test the core of the large coincident gravity and magnetic anomaly associated with a poorly exposed portion of the Braemar iron formation. The first hole was collared on a low ironstone outcrop from which a surface sample containing 58.6 percent iron content was previously collected.
Havilah Resources, formed in late 1996, aims to become a significant miner in South Australia, holding more than 6,500 km2 of surrounding tenements in the highly mineralized Curnamona Province of South Australia.