At least 16 new zones requiring follow-up exploration were identified by Newhawk Gold Mines (TSE) during this year’s surface exploration program on the Bruceside project at the Sulphurets property in northwestern British Columbia.
Newhawk President Donald McLeod said one of most significant is the SG zone, about 3,200 ft. northwest of the West zone where preliminary reserves stand at 826,000 tons grading 0.45 oz. gold per ton and 18.8 oz. silver. The zone is described as “the most continuous and well defined on surface” of all zones encountered so far on the property.
The object of this year’s $355,000 program was to prospect, sample and map the southern half of the Bruceside-Sulphurets property and complete detailed evaluation of known zones to find out if there could be additional sources of mineralization to augment current West zone reserves.
The program was carried out by Newhawk, which owns 60% of the property. The remaining 40% is held by Granduc Mines (TSE).
The SG zone is described as a north-northwest trending, steeply dipping quartz-carbonate vein and stockwork occurrence traced along strike for 850 ft. Widths are variable up to 40 ft.
Closely spaced channel sampling from 10 trenches along 425 ft. of strike length averaged 0.6 oz. gold per ton and 1.12 oz. silver across an average width of 9.8 ft. Mineralogy consists of 1.5% pyrite and 1% arsenopyrite along with minor tetrahedrite and visible gold.
The SG zone is open along strike to the west and is situated at an elevation that lends itself to easy adit development. Newhawk also noted several splays off the SG zone and parallel veining, with grades comparable to those obtained on the main structure.
Newhawk reported another significant discovery, the Tommyknocker zone, about 160 ft. west of the Brucejack camp site. Grab samples returned high-grade gold and silver values from the zone which has been traced for 425 ft., with widths of up to 33 ft.
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