St. Jude outlines Father Brown zone

Junior St. Jude Resources (SJD-V) continues to outline gold mineralization at the Father Brown zone, the primary drill target on the Hwini-Butre concession in Ghana, West Africa.

The company holds an option to earn a 65% interest in the project; 25% is held by Hwini-Butre Minerals, a local subsidiary of a European mining company, while the remainder is held by the government of Ghana.

The Father Brown zone is hosted in the Mpohor intrusive complex and lies 300 metres from St. Jude’s Adoikrom prospect. Both prospects have a diorite hangingwall and footwall that dip 40-50 to the west. Gold mineralization is observed to pinch and swell, and grades tend to vary from metre to metre.

St. Jude has traced gold mineralization along a 75-metre zone that strikes in a north-southerly direction.

The company has begun trenching near an old shaft, 300 metres south of the latest drilling. The trenches are believed to intersect the projected surface expression of the southern extension of the zone.

Results were recently reported for holes 12, 13 and 14. These were put down in a fan 50 metres south of hole 1, which intersected 10.23 grams gold per tonne over 24 metres, including a 2-metre interval averaging 78 grams gold.

Results are as follows:

* Hole 12 was drilled vertically, cutting 5 metres of 8.19 grams gold, starting at a depth of 35 metres.

* Hole 13 was drilled at an angle of minus 75 to the west, hitting 5 metres of 12.38 grams, starting at a depth of 44 metres downhole. Within this hole, three higher-grade, 1-metre intervals were encountered at depths of 45, 46 and 47 metres; these assayed 27.54, 18.4 and 12.85 grams, respectively.

* Hole 14 was drilled at an angle of minus 65 to the east, intersecting 4 metres of 34.6 grams, starting at a depth of 29 metres downhole. Included in this hole was a 2-metre intercept averaging 65.95 grams.

Earlier, St Jude reported results from a 3-hole fan drilled 25 metres north of hole 1. Included were:

* Hole 6, which cut 8 metres grading 7.63 grams gold, including a 1-metre interval that assayed 45.99 grams. (The hole was drilled vertically and cut gold mineralization at a depth of 21 metres.)

* Hole 7, which was drilled at an angle of minus 75 to the west, intersecting 7 metres of 6.55 grams, starting at a depth of 29 metres downhole. (Included in this intersection, at 29 and 30 metres downhole, were two 1-metre intercepts that ran 21.47 and 15.84 grams, respectively.) * Hole 8, was drilled at an angle of minus 65 to the east, hitting a 2-metre interval that averaged 25.22 grams starting at a depth of 16 metres downhole.

Another 3-hole fan was drilled 25 metres south of hole 1. Included in this fan were:

* Hole 9, which cut 10 metres of 4.25 grams and included a 3-metre interval running 10.96 grams. (The hole was drilled vertically, and mineralization was intersected at a depth of 27 metres.)

* Hole 10, which was drilled at an angle of minus 65 to the east, where it intersected 3 metres of 35.27 grams starting at a depth of 24 metres downhole. This interval contained a 2-metre intercept that ran 51.16 grams.

* Hole 11, which was put down at an angle of minus 75 to the west and intersected 11 metres of 4.43 grams starting at a depth of 32 metres downhole. Included was a 2-metre interval averaging 11.21 grams.

Results were obtained by standard fire assaying with atomic absorption finish. Many high-grade samples from the Father Brown zone contain coarse gold, and will therefore be subjected to a metallic screen assay technique.

St. Jude notes that holes 6 through 11 intersected a highly silicified shear zone that displayed intense alteration, abundant pyrite and often visible gold.