The 1991 drilling program by Cominco Resources International (TSE) on its 100% owned Cerattepe property in northeastern Turkey is reportedly increasing the known extent of high-grade copper mineralization.
The program is designed to follow up encouraging results from the 1990 program and to further test a 1.5-km-long, multi-element soil geochemical anomaly overlying the mineralized zone.
The latest results are from core hole 4 which intersected a secondarily enriched 18-metre interval (from 88.5 to 106.5 metres) grading 11.2% copper, 1.5% zinc, 3.1 grams gold per tonne and 71 grams silver.
This mineralization occurs toward the base of a northwesterly dipping body of brecciated pyrite within volcanics rocks and is immediately preceded by a 44.5-metre interval grading 1.1% copper, 1.9% zinc, 1.0 gram gold and 35 grams silver.
The company said high-grade mineralization has now been intersected on three section lines along 250 metres of strike length and is open downdip and along strike.
Previous drilling returned a 45-metre interval grading 1% copper and 2 grams gold, and a 10-metre interval grading 16% copper and 1.4 grams gold. A recently completed reverse circulation hole drilled 90 metres northeast of core hole 4 is reported to have intersected about 15 metres of high-grade copper mineralization within a 56-metre interval of pyritic breccia. Assays are pending.
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