MINING IN CANADA — Cream exploring near Kaslo

A work program by Cream Minerals (CMA-V) is testing the Kaslo silver project in the Slocan mining district of southeastern British Columbia.

The $660,000 program is aimed at testing the Cork South silver-lead-zinc zone, and the silver-rich Gold Cure and Silver Bear zones. It will include excavator trenching, drilling, mapping, geochemical sampling and geophysical surveys.

The Cork South zone, discovered during the 1997 trenching program, was tested by two holes drilled later that year. The best result was a 21.1-metre intersection grading 209.27 grams silver per tonne, 6.02% lead and 8.09% zinc.

Earlier this year, an induced-polarization survey was completed over a portion of the Cork South zone, along with a downhole mise–la-masse survey of the two drill hole intersections. Cream says the results suggest an associated geophysical anomaly that is up to 250 metres long and remains open to the southwest.

The Kaslo property covers a number of small mines that were worked near the turn of the century for high-grade silver ores.