Giralia Resources has reported further encouraging results from initial drilling at the company’s McPhee Creek iron ore operation, located 220km SE of Port Hedland in Western Australia. A preliminary 47 hole first pass RC drilling program of widely spaced holes on traverses up to 600m apart was completed in mid-September to test a zone for iron ore potential along an 8km long range at McPhee Creek. Assays for a further nine holes have been received and further significant intersections were returned, including 46m at 60.2% Fe and 34m at 58.9% Fe, including 28m at 60.4% Fe. On 30 September 2009, assays for the first 12 holes of the same program were reported, with significant iron ore intersections returned. An earlier drill program in mid 2008 at McPhee Creek tested a channel iron ore deposit to the east of the main range, which defined an initial JORC resource of 5.17 million tonnes at 53.6% Fe.
