Explorer Southern Cross Gold has snapped up several properties surrounding its flagship Sunday Creek project near Melbourne in Victoria in deals worth upwards of A$70 million.

Southern Cross Gold has reported more success at its Sunday Creek project in Victoria, with three holes intersecting mineralisation to the east and down-dip of the Apollo prospect in a location predicted by an artificial intelligence-assisted mineral discovery platform.

Gold-antimony orebody discovered beneath gold field's largest mine

Southern Cross Gold (ASX:SXG) has extended mineralisation 150m down dip at the Rising Sun prospect, as part of the Sunday Creek Gold-Antimony Project in Victoria, after receiving results from two diamond drillholes.

Much vaunted exploration company Southern Cross Gold has hailed an "extremely encouraging" drill result from below the Golden Dyke prospect that shows the mineral system continuing 450m below the main historic mines at the Sunday Creek project near Melbourne.

Southern Cross Gold has again reported eye-catching assays from its flagship Sunday Creek epizonal gold-antimony project in Victoria, adding two record intersections to its leaderboard and confirming the deposit appears to be improving at depth.