Canmine tests sample from Werner Lake

Metallurgical tests are being conducted on development samples from Canmine Resources (ASE) Werner Lake property, 85 km northwest of Kenora, Ont.

Four samples of drill core assayed 0.14-4.58% cobalt and 0.23-0.38% copper per tonne. A 25-tonne bulk sample from an old adit at the deposit graded 1.41% cobalt, 0.33% copper and 0.4 gram gold.

Flotation tests on the samples yielded concentrates with 2.3-28.2% cobalt and 1.7-8.1% copper.

There are three mineralized zones on the property. The Minesite zone, from which 65 tonnes of cobalt were produced during the Second World War, has cobalt-copper-gold mineralization in fracture-controlled veins. The West zone has a central oreshoot with prominent cobalt-copper mineralization surrounded by a halo of disseminated sulphides. The East zone has similar mineralization, though, to date, it has undergone only trenching.

Canmine plans to keep three drills working at the property this year and to mill large bulk samples this summer.