Drilling has resumed on the Akie deposit in northern British Columbia, reports 40% owner Ecstall Mining (EAM-V).
Inmet Mining (IMN-T), which holds the remaining 60%, has budgeted $1.5 million for a 4,600-metre drill program.
The work will begin with the completion of hole A-95-19, which was stopped as a result of poor weather in November 1995. The hole had reached a depth of 825 metres, 400 metres above its targeted depth.
Previous widely spaced drilling tested the steeply dipping Akie massive sulphide horizon over a strike length of 1,400 metres and a depth of 800 metres.
Based on results from four holes within a 600-by-1,000-metre longitudinal area, Ecstall estimates the Akie resource to be 12-15 million tonnes grading more than 10% combined zinc-lead over a width of 6-10 metres.
In addition to carrying out its stepout drill program, Inmet will employ a second rig to drill several shallow holes along a 7.5-km-long trend of zinc-lead soil geochemical anomalies. This trend follows the Akie massive sulphide horizon.
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