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The $2-million program, which is testing extensions of previously drilled mineralized zones, has so far sunk two holes from surface and three wedged holes. Four of these have intersected gold mineralization.
A hole drilled about 200 metres east and 100 metres vertically up from previously defined Zone 118 intersected 7 grams gold per tonne over a core length of 12.3 metres, representing a true width of 10.9 metres. The mineralization was in a lower-grade envelope about 23 metres long in core, or about a 17-metre true width, which ran 4.1 grams per tonne.
About 125 metres farther up, the hole had already intersected a 1.7-metre length grading 12.1 grams per tonne. The same hole also cut through a 25-metre length of massive sulphide material that was essentially barren of gold.
Another hole, S-62, and its wedged partner, S-62A, tested an area 140 metres east of Zone 118 and 60 metres below. The main hole ran through 115 metres of disseminated arsenopyrite, pyrite and pyrrhotite in a quartz stockwork, with an average grade of 1.3 grams gold. Two higher-grade zones made up part of that stockwork, one grading 5 grams per tonne over 5.1 metres and the other 6.1 grams per tonne over 4.3 metres.
The wedged hole cut 20.5 metres grading 4 grams gold, representing a true width of 17 metres. It did not cross the entire stockwork and is believed to have intersected only the northernmost of the two zones cut by S-62. In the wedged hole, that zone ran 6.1 grams over 7.1 metres of core length.
Two holes, wedged off a hole drilled in 1999, intersected targets 125 and 145 metres east of the previously drilled Zone 113. Both encountered a quartz stockwork, but only one encountered significant mineralization, cutting a 3.2-metre interval that graded 1.7 grams gold.
Aurizon is adding a fifth drill to the project and plans further holes east of Zone 113 and both east and downdip from Zone 118.
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