Cavalier Resources Limited announced that it is commencing a Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) on the Crawford Gold Project located within the greater Leonora Gold Project area. The PFS is planned to initially focus on the shallow, thick ore zones that have been densely drilled to JORC 2012 Indicated classification to review the potential for an open-cut mining operation. The Leonora Gold Project comprises two sub-projects, Crawford and Gambier Lass North, consisting of ten exploration licences, a prospecting licence, a miscellaneous licence and a mining lease.

The Crawford Gold Deposit, which includes a 101,000oz JORC compliant Mineral Resource estimate, is located on the granted mining lease M37/1202. Crawford is primarily an oxide hosted supergene style mineralised system which has been privately advanced towards a mining operation. Sections of the previous drilling were completed on 10m spaced sections with 140 RC holes for 13,528m drilled and focussed on infilling the oxide zone with little drilling extending into material deeper than 70m.

Thick Zones of mineralisation close to the surface are open along strike and at depth. Prior private work on advancing the existing 101,000koz Crawford Gold Mineral Resource was extensive and aimed at advancing the JORC Classifed Indicated portion of the current resource to readiness for mining approval. All study results highlighted no negative issues.

The metallurgical study carried out by ALS Limited returned extremely favourable results ­ there the company no contaminant issues, with low reagent consumption and fast extractions and an overall recovery of over 98%.