Australians can hardly believe it – Zinc and gold stretch nearly three quarters of a kilometer long detected on Rogozna

Strickland Metals, an Australian company which has been searching for gold and other valuable metals on the Serbian mountain of Rogozna near Novi Pazar since last year, has announced that it has smashed its own records in Serbia, striking an extraordinary 702.5-meter stretch of continuous gold and zinc mineralization alongside an equally impressive 365-meter hit in a second hole at the company’s Gradina deposit.

The monster hits include the longest intercept ever recorded at Gradina and one of the biggest across the company’s 7.4-million-ounce gold equivalent Rogozna project, underscoring its vast scale, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

The company’s exploration drive at the deposit is aimed squarely at underpinning a maiden mineral resource estimate for Gradina by the end of the year.

The two step-out diamond holes were drilled at the southern end of the deposit and didn’t disappoint, delivering standout assays from both. The results also revealed a major growth corridor still open down-dip and along strike to the southeast, hinting at plenty more gold and zinc waiting to be uncovered.

– The hole has delivered one of the most impressive results we have seen so far at Rogozna – said Strickland Metals managing director Paul L’Herpiniere.

The remarkable 700-meter strike, which started from 274m depth, averaged 0.9 grams per ton (g/t) gold and 0.6 per cent zinc. Within that, Strickland also jagged a 48.9-metre zone grading 2.1g/t gold and 4.1 per cent zinc, plus sizzling hits of 17m running at 3.6g/t gold and 2.4 per cent zinc, 12m at 4.3g/t gold, and a chunky 80-meter stretch grading 2.3g/t gold from 632.8m.

The neighboring hole was no slouch either, punching through 365.8m of dirt grading 1.5g/t gold and 0.9 per cent zinc from 287.7m depth. One section returned 152.6m going 2.1g/t gold and 1.9 per cent zinc, including a string of high-grade bursts such as 11.3m at 3.8g/t gold, 28m at 3.1g/t, and 40m at 2.7g/t, highlighting the strength and continuity of mineralization, the company said.

According to L’Herpiniere, their 2025 drilling campaign continues to reach new heights, and Hole ZRSD25212 is a remarkable hole that has delivered one of the most impressive results they have seen so far at Rogozna.

The latest Gradina work forms part of Strickland’s 50,000-meter diamond drilling assault for 2025, with seven rigs currently churning through the meters across the Rogozna tenement. Three of those rigs are stationed at Gradina to fill in the central “gap zone” between its northern and southern sectors, while four more are chasing new porphyry and skarn targets across the broader district.

With a healthy USD 41.8 million cash pile as of September, Strickland says it is well-funded to keep the drill bit turning and the news flow coming. Further assays from pending holes are due in the coming weeks.

If the next results stack up anything like the latest monster intercepts, the southern Gradina zone could well prove to be the jewel in the crown of Strickland’s Serbian gold story, the Australian media outlet writes.

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