First Au Ltd said March 21 that it recently submitted a mining lease application over its Gimlet gold project in Western Australia after a drilling program identified significant gold mineralization.

With drilling now completed, the company started geological studies on the core, which will be followed by preliminary metallurgical and geotechnical studies.

The company will also start work to determine if a 2012 JORC-compliant mineral resource can be estimated from the project's existing data set.

First Au started an initial reverse circulation drill program at Gimlet in November 2018.