Major drilling is planned by Cambior at Mouska bet

Encouraging gold mineralization has been encountered by widely- spaced surface drilling at Cambior Inc.’s 100%-owned Mouska property in Quebec’s Bousquet Twp., immediately west of the Doyon mine, the company reports. All drilling activity on the property is currently focused on the western extension of the volcanic horizon hosting the former gold- producing Mic Mac mine. Gold mineralization has been encountered to a depth of 400 m and along a strike length of 800 m.

Five diamond drills are exploring the horizon which remains open both along strike and at depth. The drilling is being carried out at 80-to-100-m intervals in an initial effort to circumscribe the gold mineralization, the company reports; multiple parallel lenses are indicated within two steeply dipping zones.

Among the better results reported from the Mic Mac horizon were: from Zone No 1, hole 74-09 — 25 g gold per tonne across 2 m, hole 75-12 — 16.5 g across 2 m, hole 81-04 — 14.8 g across 2.3 m, hole 87-03 — 7.1 g across 2 m, and hole 87-29 — 6.4 g across 4.5 m; and, from Zone No 2, hole 87-24 — 19.2 g across 6.3 m and hole 87-37 — 14.8 g across 2 m.

Cambior is currently undertaking a detailed drilling program consisting of a minimum 30,000 m of surface drilling. This new program, to be pursued during the next four months and to continue the wide- spaced drilling technique, will involve three additional diamond drills.

Elsewhere on the property, reconnaissance exploratory drilling has located new gold-bearing structures in the Mooshla granodioritic intrusive to the southeast of the present drilling. Among the better intersections were: hole 87-14 — 23 g across 2 m, hole 87-18 — 5.9 g across 3.5 m and hole 87-28 — 10.2 g across 2 m.