Apac confirms grades at Beiyinhar

Surface sampling by Apac Minerals (APC-V) has confirmed previously encountered high-grade gold values at the Beiyinhar gold project in Inner Mongolia.

Results from recent channel sampling on the Main Pit area includes 11.6 grams gold per tonne over 3 metres, 17.5 grams gold over 2 metres, and 5.7 grams over 1 metre. In all, Apac collected 63 rock chip/channel samples from a 3,000-sq.-metre area. The bulk of the samples exceed 0.2 gram gold.

Soil sampling 300 metres to the southwest and 300 metres to the northeast of the Main Pit returned up to 0.04 and 0.2 gram gold, respectively. Results from mobile-metal-ion geochemistry of soils from the southwestern anomaly run up to nine times background values. Apac notes that the areas are devoid of and surface gold workings or drill holes. The southwest anomaly measures 100 metres by 200 metres, the northeast 100 metres by 300 metres.

Apac says the anomalies strike for at least 1.2 km to the northeast; they remain undrilled outside of the Main Pit area.

Previous surface sampling by the Inner Mongolia Non-Ferrous Metals Bureau (NFMB) identified three high-grade zones on the property.

• The 160-metre-long, 9.5-metre thick Central zone averaging 5.3 grams;
• The 2.8-metre-thick South zone averaging 4.4 grams over a length of 127 metres; and
• The 2-metre thick North zone running 4.4 grams over 68 metres.

NFMB’s work at Beiyinhar includes mapping, pitting, trenching, shaft sinking, limited diamond drilling, collection of a 4,062 tonne bulk sample, and trial heap leaching of a 2,700-tonne sample.

Apac plans a 1,500-metre reverse-circulation drill campaign over the Main Pit area and geochemical anomalies for early May.