Eastmain explores Northern Quebec target areas

An 8-man field crew under a staff geologist is now on location carrying out geophysical and geochemical surveying, mapping and prospecting on the wholly-owned “Highway” Permit of Eastmain Resources in the Eastmain River area of New Quebec, President E. M. Dillman reports. This program is a follow-up of data developed from two previous airborne surveys that indicated 21 conductive zones. Eight of these, according to J. Roth, the company’s consultant geophysicist, “have characteristics similar to the gold-sulphide deposits being developed by Placer elsewhere on the Eastmain belt.”

(Placer Development’s programs in the Eastmain area have established a deposit of more than one million tons grading 0.45 oz gold).

The Highway ground on which Eastmain crews are now working totals some 36,000 acres straddling the paved highway to Quebec Hydro’s huge project. This is entirely separate from the major programs in the area in which Eastmain Resources is participating with Westmin Resources on a joint venture basis. As part of these, a number of drill holes have now been completed in the Clearwater sector from which assays are awaited. This is where two holes put down last February obtained high gold values.

Mr Dillman also reports that an important-looking new target area has been established from a reconnaissance soil sampling program carried out on another permit area that has turned up high gold values. This will be followed up by geophysics and drilling.