Ten holes totalling 760 metres tested three known zones and three geophysical anomalies.
Drill results are highlighted by a 3-metre intersection that graded 25.2 grams gold per tonne and 1.55% copper. This intercept included a 1-metre intersection that graded 65.8 grams gold and 2.7% copper. The hole tested the North zone downdip of mineralized trenches. Two other holes failed to intersect significant mineralization, though they hit skarn zones.
Drilling in the Central zone was highlighted by a 3-metre intersection that graded 6.29 grams gold and 1.14% copper. This included a 1-metre intercept grading 1.4% copper and 7.8 grams gold per tonne, as well as 1 metre of 9 grams gold and 0.87% copper. Another hole, downdip of this, intersected one metre of 4.3 grams gold in a silicified zone.
North of the Central zone, an area that contained mineralized float was drilled, though no sigificant values were reported.
One hole, drilled to test the South zone, was abandoned when it failed to penetrate a diabase dyke, and the terrain was too steep to allow for a different drill setup.
Drilling of magnetic geophysical anomalies intersected disseminated pyrrhotite. A chargeability anomaly was coincident with a highly fractured, sheared and altered diabase.
Mapping has uncovered a new area of mineralization, 1.5 km north of the North zone. A composite grab sample assayed up to 10 grams gold per tonne and 1.5% copper.
Copper-gold mineralization is associated with garnet-pyroxene skarn and adjacent fracture-related zones in folded, altered limestone. The North and South zones are 900 metres apart and adjacent to a diabase-limestone contact. Granitic intrusions are also in the vicinity.
Blue Springs is one of several Erdene Mongolian properties. Further drill results are pending.
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