Benz Mining Expands Glenburgh’s Icon Gold Target with High-Grade Drilling

Benz Mining (ASX: BNZ) has returned multiple thick, high-grade drilling hits from the Icon camp within its 100%-owned Glenburgh gold project in Western Australia’s Gascoyne region.

The results support the modelled wireframes underpinning the company’s recently released Glenburgh exploration target and advance Icon toward maiden mineral resource definition.

The standout result intersected 27 metres at 15.33 grams per tonne gold from 229m after stepping out from Icon into the adjacent Apollo area.

The new hit has opened a high-grade position along the broader Icon–Apollo trend, reinforcing Benz’s interpretation of a large connected gold system.

Icon Camp Growth

Benz has identified Icon as a major part of the broader Glenburgh exploration target, with the camp contributing between 63 million tonnes and 69Mt at 1.40g/t to 1.47g/t gold for between 2.8 million ounces and 3.3Moz.

The broader higher-grade Glenburgh domain hosts an exploration target of 110Mt to 125Mt at 1.7g/t to 1.8g/t gold for 6.1Moz to 7.3Moz.

Approximately 80% of the exploration target is already drill-defined, assay-supported, and wireframed, while the current systematic fence-line program continues to tighten connectivity and add mineralised volume.

Other Icon highlights included 59m at 2.47g/t gold from 288m, 88m at 1.87g/t gold from 103m, and 63m at 1.53g/t gold from 85m.

The latest drilling supports Benz’s interpretation that Icon comprises broad mineralised zones containing higher-grade cores.

Confidence Building

Benz chief executive officer Mark Lynch-Staunton said each completed drill fence had supported the wireframes behind the exploration target.

“The more we drill at Icon, the more we find, and the more confidence we build,” he said.

“Every drill fence completed to date has supported the wireframes underpinning the Exploration Target – and in several areas has extended them – adding mineralised volume, improving continuity, and growing high-grade zones within the broader Icon Camp.”

“Importantly, Icon is only one part of the Glenburgh story," Mr Lynch-Staunton added.

"It represents approximately one-third of the project footprint, with Hurricane and Thunderbolt camps providing major additional upside across the Mining Lease.”

Multi-Camp Program

Benz is advancing Glenburgh across the three camps while progressing pre-development workstreams required to support future studies.

Drilling will continue at Icon on systematic fence lines designed to tighten spacing, confirm continuity, and define further high-grade zones.

The company is also drilling aggressively at Hurricane, and has mobilised three rigs to Thunderbolt to accelerate testing of the third major camp on the Glenburgh mining lease.

In parallel, Benz is progressing metallurgical test work, processing flowsheet evaluation, geotechnical, hydrogeology, environmental baseline, infrastructure, and permitting-related work programs across the portfolio.