Canasil to drill B.C. properties

Summer drilling is planned for the Brenda and Granite Basin properties in British Columbia.

Owner Canasil Resources (VSE) expects diamond drilling to begin shortly on the Brenda property, 20 km north of El Condor’s Kemess copper-gold project.

The work will test a second gold-copper porphyry system, about 2 km east of the White Pass zone. Previous work on the White Pass returned a 108.8-metre intersection grading 0.14% copper and 0.48 gram gold per tonne in one hole, and a 49.9-metre intersection grading 0.13% copper and 1.1 grams gold in another.

At the Granite Basin property, within the Omineca mining division, Hemlo Gold Mines (TSE) signed a definitive agreement to earn a 60% interest by spending $1 million and paying $200,000 cash over four years.

Soil-sampling identified a broad gold anomaly measuring 300 metres wide by more than 2 km long, on trend from known gold-mineralized shears already identified on surface.