LAST BUT NOT LEAST — Metall to drill Seneca

The 1994 field program at the Seneca massive sulphide project, 65 miles east of Vancouver, B.C., is under way.

Metall Mining, the operator, is earning up to a 60% interest in the project from International Curator Resources (VSE).

The initial stage of work this year will include a 2,600-ft.-long drill hole to test an area of strong footwall alteration to the north of, and downdip from, the Seneca zone.

Previous drilling outlined a drill-indicated resource of 1.7 million tons grading 3.57% zinc, 0.65% copper, 1.20 oz. silver and 0.024 oz. gold per ton. Metall is also planning geophysical work on an anomaly next to the Fleetwood zone where Hole 92-33 intersected massive sulphides grading 1.83% copper, 23.30% zinc, 1.71% lead, 4.29 oz. silver and 0.075 oz. gold over 10.5 ft. Contingent on the results from the program, Metall will drill-test the area north of the Seneca zone, as well as the Fleetwood anomaly.

Metall has spent $1.2 million on Seneca to the end of last year and must have spent a total of $1.6 million by the end of 1996 to earn an initial 51% interest.

Metall can earn a further 9% interest by spending another $500,000 by the end of 1998.