# Southern Cross Gold Drills Record High-Grade in Shallow Apollo: 17.3 Metres at 15.3 g/t Gold & 3.2% Antimony

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-extractions.minestarters.com/news/southern-cross-gold-drills-record-high-grade-in-shallow-apollo-17-3-metres-at-15--bdce5c0d-b46f-44e6-b615-8bedfa4b561b

Original source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/southern-cross-gold-drills-record-100000474.html

Publisher: yahoo\_press

Original announcement: 2026-03-16T10:00:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Southern Cross Gold Consolidated Ltd.

- Ticker: SX2

- Exchange: ASX

- Region: Victoria

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: Antimony

- Document categories: Drill results

- Extracted: 2026-09-12 03:55:33 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 1.00 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Southern Cross Gold has reported record high-grade drill results from the Sunday Creek Gold-Antimony Project in Victoria. The standout intercept is 17.3 metres at 15.3 g/t gold and 3.2% antimony from hole SDDSC200.

Reasoning: The intercept of 15.3 g/t Au over 17.3 m is an exceptional high-grade result for an orogenic-style gold system, further bolstered by significant antimony grades.

- Positive factor: exceptional gold grade

- Positive factor: high-grade antimony byproduct

- Positive factor: record high-grade intercept

Facts used in scoring: 2

## Classification and evidence

**Bonanza Intercept**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Exceptionally high-grade zone, well above the deposit-type norm.

Why it applies: 15.3 g/t Au is exceptionally high grade.

Evidence · text

> 15.3 g/t Au

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 2. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

## Drill Results (2)

### SDDSC200

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-extractions.minestarters.com/news/southern-cross-gold-drills-record-high-grade-in-shallow-apollo-17-3-metres-at-15--bdce5c0d-b46f-44e6-b615-8bedfa4b561b#fact-drill-facts-0)

Sunday Creek Gold-Antimony · gold

#### Identity

- Hole ID: SDDSC200
- Project: Sunday Creek Gold-Antimony
- Commodity: gold
- Region: australia\_vic
- Reported Region: australia\_vic
- Ticker: SX2

#### Geometry

- Grade: 15.3
- Grade Unit: g/t
- Intercept: 17.3 m
- From: 251.1 m
- To: 268.4 m
- Intercept Depth: 251.1 m

#### Classification

- Sample Type: drill
- Group ID: SDDSC200:251.1-268.4

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Interp. Status: scored
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-03-16T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: 15.3 g/t Au is an exceptional grade for the deposit type.

- Positive factor: exceptional grade

Evidence · text

> 17.3 m @ 22.9 g/t AuEq \(15.3 g/t Au, 3.2% Sb\) from 251.1 m in drill hole SDDSC200

#### Tags used in scoring

**No QA/QC Disclosure**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Release does not disclose QA/QC — lab certification, CP/QP sign-off and assay protocols cannot be checked from this document.

Why it applies: qaqc\_disclosed is not true

**Cut-off Undisclosed**

Polarity: negative

Definition: High-grade interval reported without stating the cut-off grade used for compositing.

Why it applies: no cutoff\_grade was stated

### SDDSC200

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-extractions.minestarters.com/news/southern-cross-gold-drills-record-high-grade-in-shallow-apollo-17-3-metres-at-15--bdce5c0d-b46f-44e6-b615-8bedfa4b561b#fact-drill-facts-1)

Sunday Creek Gold-Antimony · antimony

#### Identity

- Hole ID: SDDSC200
- Project: Sunday Creek Gold-Antimony
- Commodity: antimony
- Region: australia\_vic
- Reported Region: australia\_vic
- Ticker: SX2

#### Geometry

- Grade: 3.2
- Grade Unit: %
- Intercept: 17.3 m
- From: 251.1 m
- To: 268.4 m
- Intercept Depth: 251.1 m

#### Classification

- Sample Type: drill
- Group ID: SDDSC200:251.1-268.4

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Interp. Status: scored
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-03-16T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: 3.2% Sb is a very high grade for an antimony byproduct in a gold system.

- Positive factor: high grade byproduct

Evidence · text

> 17.3 m @ 22.9 g/t AuEq \(15.3 g/t Au, 3.2% Sb\) from 251.1 m in drill hole SDDSC200

#### Tags used in scoring

**No QA/QC Disclosure**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Release does not disclose QA/QC — lab certification, CP/QP sign-off and assay protocols cannot be checked from this document.

Why it applies: qaqc\_disclosed is not true

**Cut-off Undisclosed**

Polarity: negative

Definition: High-grade interval reported without stating the cut-off grade used for compositing.

Why it applies: no cutoff\_grade was stated

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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