A 4,000-metre drill program mounted by
The 10-hole program tested three known showings on the Linear claim group, about 15 km west of Gander. The most recent results are from the Lotto showing, about 2 km northeast of the Trans-Canada Highway. There, gold mineralization is known in quartz veins, sedimentary rocks and in a stratiform quartz-sulphide breccia unit.
Holes 7 and 9 intersected the quartz-sulphide breccia, with hole 7 cutting a 13.6-metre length that carried 2.2 grams gold per tonne, including a short (0.3-metre) interval with a grade of 76.2 grams. Hole 9 cut 17.4 metres grading 1.7 grams.
Holes 8 and 10, which tested only the quartz veins, found only low gold values.
A 3-hole campaign to test the Dome showing, a short distance to the southwest, intersected high-grade gold mineralization over variable widths. Hole 1 encountered an 8.6-metre zone grading 18.5 grams per tonne; hole 2, a 7.8-metre length running 4.1 grams; and hole 3, a narrow 0.6-metre intersection that graded 305 grams. The three holes tested a total 15-metre strike length on the showing. At the Road showing, another 300 metres southwest of Dome, hole 4 intersected two mineralized zones: one of 3 metres grading 2.5 grams gold per tonne and another, of 2.7 metres grading 15.4 grams. Hole 5 cut 5.4 metres grading 0.8 grams, and hole 6 ran 1.6 grams per tonne over a 4.7-metre core length. Again, the three holes tested a total of 15 metres of strike length.
Carina is now drilling the Baseline and Keats showings, nearer the highway. These zones have been trenched before and some gold mineralization is known.
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