Key Highlights

  • Hole 26NMDD0008 intersected 17 m at 10.50 g/t gold from 65 m, including 5.2 m at 26.53 g/t gold from 76.8 m.
  • A shallower zone of 3 m at 4.75 g/t gold from 31 m was recorded in the same hole.
  • Hole 26NMDD0014 returned 1.0 m at 10.20 g/t gold from 60.8 m but did not reach the historical target of 6.0 m at 102.66 g/t gold.
  • About 905 m of diamond drilling has been completed at Halleys, with assays pending on four further completed holes.

Normandy Minerals Ltd (ASX:NMD) has reported the first assay results from its maiden diamond drilling program at the Halleys Deposit, part of the Halleys Project roughly 200 km north of Southern Cross in Western Australia. Hole 26NMDD0008 returned 17 m at 10.50 g/t gold from 65 m, a composite that includes 5 m at 7.92 g/t from 65 m and 5.2 m at 26.53 g/t from 76.8 m. The results, released on 28 October 2026, cover the first two holes of a program that has completed about 905 m of core beside the existing Halleys pit.

Hole 26NMDD0008 Intersects Several Gold Lenses

Hole 26NMDD0008 was collared at 703242 East and 6737583 North and drilled at an azimuth of 285 degrees and a dip of minus 50 degrees to a final depth of 125 m. Alongside the 17 m main zone it recorded 3 m at 4.75 g/t gold from 31 m and 8.4 m at 0.74 g/t from 38.6 m at shallower depth. Normandy reads the repeated intervals as stacked, southeast-dipping lodes, and says structural measurements from the core match the southeast-to-northwest drilling direction it selected.

Individual samples inside the main zone vary widely. The section from 76.8 m included a 0.5 m sample at 97.4 g/t and a 1 m sample at 44.7 g/t. About 6.8 m between 70 m and 76.8 m sits inside the composite at grades of 0.1 to 0.3 g/t. Normandy presented the 17 m interval as an exception to its usual reporting rules on internal dilution, no top cuts were applied, and the hole was drilled close to perpendicular to the interpreted zone, so the principal intersection is considered to approximate true width.

Hole 26NMDD0014 and the Historical Target

Hole 26NMDD0014 was designed to retest historical hole BRC0135, which earlier returned 6.0 m at 102.66 g/t gold within a broader 14.0 m at 45.32 g/t. Access limits near the pit void forced a semi-down-dip collar, drilled at 152 degrees and minus 60 degrees to 123.8 m. The hole deviated and did not intersect the target zone. It did record 1.0 m at 10.20 g/t gold from 60.8 m and 1.23 m at 0.82 g/t from 102.77 m.

Normandy considers the 1 m intercept a possible sign that the stacked lode system continues above the main target. The company also notes that the hole was not an exact twin of the historical one, because the position and orientation of that earlier hole are uncertain, and that the reported intervals should not be read as true widths.

Geology, Sampling and Program Status

Halleys sits near the junction of the northeast-trending Halleys Shear zone and the north-south Moondie Shear. Gold is hosted in a steeply southeast-dipping basaltic sequence with minor ultramafic rocks, intruded by quartz-feldspar-biotite porphyries. The mineralised zones are silica rich, with sheeted quartz-calcite veinlets and minor pyrite and pyrrhotite, and no folding has been identified so far. The drilling took place on prospecting licence P77/4706, which Normandy owns outright, and the Halleys pit finished mining in 2014. Half-core samples were assayed at ALS in Perth by 30 g fire assay with an atomic absorption finish.

Seven diamond holes appear in the program table. Apart from the two reported, holes 26NMDD0001, 0002, 0005 and 0009 are complete with assays pending, while 26NMDD0007 was stopped at 17.3 m because of drilling difficulties and is to be redrilled. A reverse circulation program was scheduled to begin in late October 2026, and Normandy plans to release later assays in consolidated updates.

Where the Halleys Drilling Stands

The first two holes give Normandy one broad high-grade intercept and one narrower result, with four completed holes still awaiting assays. The reported intervals remain open in all directions, and the company also plans systematic sampling of the historical stockpile.