Gold Hunter finds high-grade shoot at Manson

After a five-hole drill program at the Manson Creek property in central British Columbia, Canadian Gold Hunter (CGH-T) has indications of a low-grade gold system with some very high-grade shoots.

Three of the five holes intersected long intervals of low-grade gold mineralization, with one of them, hole 04-002, cutting a 1.5-metre core length grading 173 grams gold per tonne. Above the high-grade intersection was a 60-metre interval grading an average 0.5 gram per tonne, and below it a 49.5-metre interval averaging 0.6 gram.

Two other holes intersected similar low-grade gold values, one cutting 141 metres running 0.8 gram per tonne and the other cutting 70 metres running 0.7 gram. Two more holes found weaker mineralization, averaging 0.2 gram gold per tonne over 196.9 and 282.5 metres.

Gold Hunter is looking for the hard-rock source of previously exploited placer gold deposits in the Manson Creek area. Soil and rock geochemistry and an induced-polarization survey led to an area of pyritized and carbonatized greywacke that was drilled in the recent program.

The high-grade zone illustrates a strong nugget effect in the mineralization; it was first assayed at 88.6 grams per tonne in a standard-size sample, but when Gold Hunter geologists had a 1-kg sample of core re-analyzed using assays of multiple size fractions the grade turned out to be 173 grams per tonne.