A 2,500-metre drill program is under way at the Akweskwa gold project near Timmins, Ont., reports operator Eastmain Resources (ER-T).
The property hosts gold and zinc mineralization in rocks believed to be similar to zones being mined at the Bousquet, Doyon and La Ronde operations in Quebec.
Eastmain notes that the mineralization at Akweskwa coincides with a strong induced-polarization (IP) anomaly, which has been traced for 3,100 metres.
The program will follow up on previous holes, which encountered up to 18.5 grams gold per tonne across 3.04 metres and 20.5 grams gold across 1.95 metres in the Dunvegan zone.
One of Eastmain’s 95 drill holes intersected 1 metre of 7.09% zinc, 0.25% copper, 0.24% lead, 42 grams silver and 0.76 gram gold near surface. This mineralization was intersected 1,000 metres west of the Dunvegan zone, on the same IP trend.
Elsewhere in the Timmins camp, Eastmain and 50% partner Falconbridge (FL-T) plan to drill the Kidd project by year-end.
Previous work by the joint venture defined an electromagnetic conductor, 2,500 metres east of the Kidd Creek mine and in the Kidd Creek footwall magnetic trend, which has yet to be tested.
Meanwhile, Eastmain is awaiting results from a fall drill program at the Clearwater gold project in northwestern Quebec, a 50-50 joint venture with Quebec’s government-owned mining company Soquem.
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