Surface drift prospecting by Freewest Resources Canada has turned up angular boulders with high gold grades at the Smoke Lake property in the Hemlo area of north-central Ontario.
Smoke Lake, a 21-sq.-km property lying about 30 km northwest of the Hemlo gold mines, is underlain by Archean-age sedimentary rocks which are intruded by the Beggs Lake granodiorite stock. The boulders, which are also granodiorite to syenodiorite in composition, were found about 200 to 500 metres south of the intrusion, down-ice from it.
The boulders, which are quartz-veined and altered with chlorite, hematite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and carbonates, carried gold grades ranging from 14.6 grams up to 312.9 grams per tonne.
Freewest plans induced polarization and soil surveys on the property, and says linecutting for the surveys should get under way shortly.
Freewest has also returned to the Clarence Stream gold property in southwestern New Brunswick, where it will be drilling extensions of the AD and MW gold prospects. Drilling on MW earlier in the field season returned grades of 11.8 grams gold per tonne over a 15.5-metre intersection and 9 grams per tonne over 7 metres. Holes on AD returned 13.3 grams over 4.5 metres and 17.8 grams over 4 metres.
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