Int’l Curator drills Assean Lake

Vancouver — Drilling is under way at the Assean Lake gold project in northern Manitoba.

International Curator Resources (IC-T) has completed 24 holes, or 2,900 metres, to date, and assay results are pending. Plans call for up to 4,500 metres of diamond drilling to test targets defined by geophysical and geochemical surveys. The targets are on strike with the Hunt, B-52 and BIF gold zones, as well as on the northern shore of Assean Lake, near the Lindal gold vein.

The main target is shear-hosted gold associated with a gold-enriched sulphide iron formation. The project hosts seven gold zones over a 12-km strike length along the 200-km-long Assean Lake shear zone. Secondary targets include nickel deposits of the Thompson-type that are also associated with sulphidic iron formations.

Assean Lake is a 60-40 joint venture between International Curator and Rare Earth Metals (REM-V). Curator is the operator.

In other news, International Curator has launched a takeover bid for Royal County Minerals (RMI-V) by offering four Curator shares for each Royal County share. The deal is subject to due diligence and regulatory approvals.

Royal Country holds the Kinaskan property in northwestern British Columbia, which is adjacent to Curator’s GJ gold-copper project. GJ hosts a gold-rich porphyry copper system that hosts drill intercepts of up to 1.9 grams gold per tonne and 0.7% copper over 68 metres. The Kinaskan property covers 130 sq. km and hosts 16 known mineral occurrences, as well as gold, copper and silver stream-sediment and soil anomalies. A drill intercept at the Gordon vein cut 2.5 metres averaging 19.9 grams gold per tonne.

Also in Royal County’s stable are the Bob Creek gold-silver prospect, near Houston, B.C., and the QCM gold property, 250 km northwest of Prince George, B.C.

At Bob Creek, previous drilling on a series of quartz-feldspar porphyry dykes and hydrothermal breccias returned up to 69 grams gold and 13.03 grams silver per tonne over 6.1 metres, and 3.25 grams gold and 30.89 grams silver over 21.75 metres. In addition, several lower-grade intercepts of up to 156.1 metres grading 0.79 gram gold and 10.29 grams silver indicate bulk-tonnage potential.

The QCM property hosts a 300-by-130 metre gold-in-soil anomaly that averages 600 parts per billion gold. Limited drilling intercepted 36.5 metres grading 1.31 grams gold and a 27.4-metre section grading 1 gram gold.