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Flynn Gold reports shallow gold intervals at Tasmania’s Brilliant prospect
Flynn Gold has found broad, shallow gold-bearing zones in early drilling at the Brilliant prospect in northeast Tasmania.
The first three of five completed diamond holes returned intervals ranging from 14.8 to 20.35 metres long, with reported gold grades from 1.26 to 1.86 grams per tonne.
The highest average grade was 1.86 grams per tonne across an 18.65-metre interval starting 59.35 metres below ground.
Brilliant is part of Flynn Gold’s wholly owned Golden Ridge project, about 75 kilometres east of Launceston.
The prospect is being advanced towards its first resource estimate, which would assess how much gold may be present.
The company says its new drilling approach has helped identify a mineralised zone extending close to the surface.
More drilling and assay results are expected, with further shallow holes planned and a sixth hole already underway.
Flynn Gold reported broad, shallow gold intervals from the first three of five diamond holes drilled at the Brilliant prospect in northeast Tasmania.
The best headline interval was 18.65 metres at 1.86 grams per tonne of gold from 59.35 metres in hole BRDD017.
Brilliant is the first prospect at the company’s Golden Ridge project being advanced towards a maiden resource estimate.
Drilling is continuing, with further assay results pending.
- Who
- Flynn Gold reported the results.
- What
- The first three diamond holes at Brilliant returned broad, shallow gold intervals.
- When
- The results were reported on 10 November 2026.
- Where
- At the Brilliant prospect within the Golden Ridge project, about 75 kilometres east of Launceston, Tasmania.
- Why
- The drilling is part of advancing Brilliant towards a maiden resource estimate and testing the company’s geological model.
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The first three of five diamond holes returned mineralised intervals, including 18.65 metres at 1.86 grams per tonne of gold in BRDD017.
A hole drilled down-dip from the strongest result logged sheeted quartz veins over about 71 metres, with assays pending.
Core from the fifth hole was being logged and sampled.
Drilling had started on a sixth hole.
- Best headline interval
- 18.65 metres at 1.86 grams per tonne of gold from 59.35 metres in BRDD017
- Other headline interval
- 20.35 metres at 1.29 grams per tonne from 29 metres in BRDD015
- Other headline interval
- 14.8 metres at 1.26 grams per tonne from 20.2 metres in BRDD016
- Project location
- Golden Ridge is about 75 kilometres east of Launceston, Tasmania
- Mineralised zone
- Gold anomalism extends along a 9-kilometre zone at the southern contact of the Golden Ridge Granodiorite and Mathinna Group metasediments
What people are saying
Much of the historical drilling at Brilliant was oriented from the north-western side of the deposit, effectively drilling sub-parallel to the mineralised zone
In this program we have turned the rig around and drilled from the south-eastern side with immediate success, consistently hitting wide zones of shallow gold-bearing mineralisation.
The first results clearly delineate an extensive mineralised zone which extends to near-surface, where earlier trenching has recorded similar grades and widths.