Drilling at Skukum Creek returns best grades to date

The latest round of drilling at Omni Resources’ (ORI-V) Skukum Creek deposit, near Whitehorse, Y.T., yielded an 83-ft. intersection grading 0.673 oz. gold and 7.65 oz. silver per ton in the deepest drill hole to date.

The 15-hole program has also increased the vertical extent of the deposit to 1,500 ft. Highlights are as follows:

Hole 21 intersected 34 ft. grading 0.356 oz. gold and 4.98 oz., silver, (representing a true width of 24.3 ft.), including 9.5 ft. grading 0.941 oz.

gold and 6.35 oz. silver; hole 212 hit 10 ft. (true width: 5.2 ft.) grading 0.045 oz. gold and 1.14 oz. silver; hole 213 hit 83 ft. (true width: 28.4 ft.) at 0.673 oz. gold and 7.56 oz. silver, including 35 ft. at 1.434 oz.

gold and 15.42 oz. silver; and hole 214 returned 4.6 ft. grading 0.349 oz.

gold and 7.55 oz. silver, plus 19 ft. (true width: 13.8 ft.) grading 0.155 oz. gold and 3.96 oz. silver.

Hole 213, one of the deepest holes drilled on the Skukum Creek deposit, is open to depth, as well as on strike to the northeast.

Prior to the current program, the deposit was estimated to contain 513,000 tons of proven, probable and possible reserves grading 0.22 oz. gold and 8.01 oz. silver.