Venus Metals has started drilling below its existing Bellchambers gold resource in Western Australia, aiming to locate a higher-grade zone beneath the current mineral inventory. According to reports from multiple outlets, the company’s drilling program targets an area expected to potentially increase the resource by as much as 60,000 ounces. That would be added to an existing resource estimated at about 31,400 ounces. The coverage agrees that the focus of the work is on upgrading the quality and extent of the gold resource rather than expanding the surface footprint. The drilling is described as part of an ongoing effort to define and confirm additional mineralisation at greater depth. While the potential upside is framed as an estimated addition of up to 60,000 ounces, the reported figures are presented as targets or potential outcomes of the drilling results rather than confirmed increases at this stage. The company is therefore working to refine its resource estimate through continued testing of the deeper geology beneath Bellchambers.