Drilling by Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T) at the inactive Casa Berardi goldmine in northwestern Quebec, testing extensions of previously drilledmineralized zones, has cut significant gold values east of knownmineralization.
The drill program, with a $2-million budget, has so far drilled two holesfrom surface and three wedged holes. Four of these have intersected goldmineralization.
A hole drilled about 200 metres east and about 100 metres vertically upfrom the previously-defined Zone 118 intersected 7 grams gold per tonne overa core length of 12.3 metres, representing a true width of 10.9 metres. Themineralization was in a lower-grade envelope about 23 metres long in core –or about a 17-metre true width — which ran 4.1 grams per tonne.
About 125 metres further up, the hole had already intersected a 1.7-metrelength grading 12.1 grams per tonne. The same hole also cut through a25-metre length of massive sulphide material that was essentially barren ofgold.
Another hole, S-62, and its wedged partner S-62A, tested an area about140 metres east of Zone 118 and 60 metres below. The main hole ran through115 metres of disseminated arsenopyrite, pyrite and pyrrhotite in a quartzstockwork, with an average grade of 1.3 grams gold per tonne. Twohigher-grade zones made up part of that stockwork, one grading 5 grams pertonne over 5.1 metres and the other 6.1 grams per tonne over 4.3 metres.
The wedged hole cut 20.5 metres grading 4 grams gold per tonne,representing a true width of 17 metres. It did not cross the entirestockwork, and is believed to have intersected only the northernmost of thetwo zones cut by S-62. In the wedged hole, that zone ran 6.1 grams over 7.1metres of core length.
Two holes, wedged off a hole drilled in 1999, intersected targets 125 and145 metres east of the previously drilled Zone 113. Both encountered aquartz stockwork, but only one encountered significant mineralization,cutting a 3.2-metre interval that graded 1.7 grams gold per tonne.
Aurizon is adding a fifth drill to the project and plans further holeseast of Zone 113 and both east and down-dip from Zone 118.
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