New hit for Aurizon

Exploration drilling by Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T) west of the Casa Berardi mine in Quebec has intersected a quartz vein system. The drill hole was collared about 1.9 km west of the new Zone 113, which Aurizon is planning to mine in 2007. It is about 1.5 km west of the West Mine, which is the same distance again west of the mined-out East Mine.

The drill hole intersected a 20-metre length of quartz vein material with 50 metres of stockwork sulphides in the host volcanic rocks. The intersection returned low gold values — the best being 1 gram per tonne over an 18-metre core length — but Casa Berardi is known to host gold mineralization with similar geology, often near to relatively barren quartz-sulphide bodies.

Two drills are testing structural extensions of the zone to see if any high-grade shoots exist.