Vancouver — Eagle Plains Resources (EPL-V) has increased its property holdings in the Yukon by staking two additional massive sulphide prospects in the Pelly Mountains area some 60 km south of Ross River.
Covering 2.4 sq. km, the new property hosts the MM and Eros massive sulphide showings.
The MM prospect was worked by Cyprus Anvil and Curragh Resources in the 1970s and mid 1990s. Mineralization consists of stratiform lenses of barite-pyrite with associated silver, copper, lead and zinc sulphides. The zone stretches for 3.75 km along strike. Previous drilling returned up to 5.9% zinc, 3% lead and 1.6 oz. silver per tonne over 7.2 metres.
Moving 25 km to the east, the Eros showing consists of a 140-by-450-metre coincidental geochemical and geophysical anomaly. The zone was tested by a single diamond drill hole in 1980 but failed to intersect significant mineralization.
Eagle Plains has been actively exploring the Pelly Mountain area since 1996. The junior has defined a regional-scale geochemical anomaly over a 20-sq-km area, coincident with a package of volcanic rocks that hosts the nearby Wolf base metal deposit.
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