Band-Ore Res. proves up Thorne gold property

Junior Band-Ore Resources (BAN-T) will begin a 92,000-metre drill program to delineate resources at its Thorne gold property, 20 km southwest of Timmins, Ont.

The new program will consist of six rigs and is intended partly to test targets along the deformation zone that hosts the mineralization.

To date, the property has been subjected to 60,000 metres of drilling, which led to the identification of five mineralized zones. Only one of these, the Kapika zone, has undergone a complete resource calculation: 270,000 tonnes grading 2.5 grams gold per tonne.

Recent efforts were concentrated on the Golden River zone, where Band-Ore encountered 6 metres grading 1.7 grams gold at a vertical depth of 400 metres.

Another hole, drilled 2 km east of the Golden River discovery hole, intersected three mineralized zones with grades up to 3.8 grams.

Gold mineralization was also intersected along strike to the east and west from Golden River, and southwest of Kapika.

Meanwhile, on the Thunder Creek property, immediately northwest of Thorne, Battle Mountain Canada (BMC-T) has intersected an altered porphyry body with low-grade gold mineralization over a 61-metre core length. The gold grades in the porphyry are as high as 0.8 gram.

Battle Mountain, which is earning a 60% interest in the property from Band-Ore, plans follow-up drilling.

Also, Pelangio Larder Lake Mines (PLLM-C) and its private subsidiary, Marl Resources, have drilled two induced-polarization anomalies at their nearby Bristol Twp. property.

The drilling, which earned Marl a 60% interest in the property, intersected disseminated pyrite and sphalerite but found no significant gold mineralization.