Vancouver Assays from the latest bout of drilling by Chapleau Resources (CHI-V) has confirmed the presence of coarse gold at the Bar prospect near Cranbrook, British Columbia.
Holes 1 through 3A were collared from the same site, yielding high values of 11.1 grams gold over 0.6 metre, 38 grams gold over 1 metre, 0.38 gram gold over 0.9 metre and 9.8 grams gold over 0.8 metre, respectively.
Moving 160 metres west-northwest, holes 4 through 6 were drilled from the same site, yielding high values of 19 grams gold over 1 metre, 4.8 grams gold over 0.7 metre and 1.3 grams gold over 0.4 metre, respectively.
Collared 130 metres east of the first holes, holes 7 and 8 yielded high values of 1.47 gram gold over 1 metre and 3.4 grams gold over 0.3 metre, respectively.
So far, the drilling has established a mineralized strike length of 290 metres with vertical depths reaching 341 metres. Assays were completed using both standard 30-gram fire and metallic screen fire. The results show that the bulk of the gold mineralization is greater than 100 micron in size.
Located only 7 km west of Cranbrook, the property holds several broad zones of gold mineralization hosted in quartz veins and stockworks superimposed on silicified syenite dykes and surrounding metasediments. The central 300 metre long portion of the prospect was trenched in the early to mid-1990s with results returning 7.42 grams gold over 11 metres, 4.52 grams gold over 26 metres, 3.08 grams gold over 18 metres and 1.54 grams gold over 30 metres.
Chapleau followed up the historical results and confirmed the presence of a steep-dipping, east-west striking, 50-to-70 metre wide central mineralized zone with a strike length of 300 metres. Further prospecting extended the Zone 500 metres to the west and 200 metres to the east.
Located on the 450-sq km Cranbrook gold project, the Bar prospect marks one of ten targets identified by the junior.
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