Drilling completed at Prairie Creek

This year’s drill program at the Prairie Creek project west of Yellowknife, N.W.T., added 1.25 km to the strike length of the zone 3 vein, extending the deposit northward to 2.1 km.

San Andreas Resources (VSE) reports that the final stepout hole, 95-125, was drilled 210 metres north of hole 95-122 and intersected three mineralized vein structures, returning: 3.2 metres of 13.7% zinc, 18% lead and 1.1% copper, plus 367.8 grams silver per tonne, at a downhole depth of 745-748.2 metres; 6.3 metres of 18.7% zinc, 7% lead and 0.8% copper, plus 238.7 grams silver at a depth of 759.9-766.2 metres; and 1 metre of 31.6% zinc, 16.9% lead and 1% copper, plus 325.5 grams silver at depth of 772.9-773.9 metres.

The zone 3 vein remains open to the north.

At the end of 1994, a geological resource for the property was estimated at 6.2 million tonnes grading 12.9% zinc and 12.2% lead, plus 180 grams silver, of which 4 million tonnes averaging 12% zinc, 14.3% lead, 0.4% copper and 218.2 grams silver were outlined in zone 3 over a strike length of 850 metres.

San Andreas also tested a stratiform structure in zone 5, intersecting 1.3 metres of 22.7% zinc and 6% lead, plus 94 grams silver for hole 95-124. The mineralization encountered in hole 95-124 is 1,100 metres south of the stratiform mineralization of zone 3, discovered in hole 95-103. The latter intersected a previously reported 2 metres of 29.2% zinc, 12.7% lead, 0.1% copper and 2.2 grams silver.