A drill program by Royal Standard Minerals (RSM-M) will test a gold prospect adjacent to Barrick Gold’s Bousquet gold mine in Quebec’s Abitibi greenstone belt.
The junior company holds an option to earn a 100% interest in the property.
Royal Standard’s program is focused on the northern end of its property, about 1,400 metres south of the Bousquet No. 1 mine headframe.
A 2,500-metre pilot hole, with 4 to 5 wedged offsets, will explore the downdip and/or down-plunge extensions of the Bousquet mine horizon at vertical depths ranging from 1,000 to 1,800 metres. This horizon hosts several economic sulphide gold deposits within highly sheared felsic volcanic rocks.
Royal Standard says its target is a 1,400-metre-deep, south-dipping mineralized section, which includes an 8.8-metre-thick horizon that contains gold-bearing massive sulphide beds interlayered with black argillite and quartz-eye sericite schist with disseminated pyrite. The gold-bearing sulphide horizon is localized at, or near, the stratigraphically upper contact of the Blake River volcanic group with the overlying Cadillac sedimentary formation.
The company expects to receive preliminary assay results from its drill program by mid-March.
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