More drilling for Cass zone on Kim claims at Indin Lake

An additional minimum $1.35 million has been proposed for a continuing program to start next month on the Kim Claims in the Indin Lake area of the Northwest Territories, reports Comaplex Resources, one of the three joint venture partners in the project.

The two other partners in the venture are Echo Bay Mines, which holds a 75% interest and is the operator, and Petromet which holds 6.25%. Comaplex holds the balance.

A 5,400-ft diamond drill program is planned in November to test the Cass zone along strike at vertical levels of 100, 200 and 300 ft. Drilling will continue in January with an approximately 15,600-ft program to test the zone at the 500 and 700 ft levels. Contingent on these results, plans have been formulated to start an underground decline program next year.

The Cass zone consists of a quartz stockwork containing pyrrhotite, pyrite, arsenopyrite and abundant native gold mineralization in a northeast-trending gabbro sill-like body that can be traced over a strike length of 2.5 miles. The gabbro intrudes a sequence of massive to pillowed basic volcanic flows with interlayered intermediate to felsic flows and associated pyroclastic rocks.

To date, 27 diamond drill holes, totalling 9,931 ft, have been completed on the central part of the Cass zone at an average spacing of 65 ft.

Preliminary results indicate the mineralized zone dips steeply southeast, has a strike length of at least 980 ft, a minimum depth of 230 ft and a true width ranging from a few feet to about 50 ft, averaging 16 ft.

The higher grade gold concentrations appear to be confined to a series of an echelon subparallel shoots that plunge steeply southeast. Of the 27 holes drilled so far on the Cass, all have intersected the zone and 21 have encountered visible gold.

Comaplex says due to the discrepancies in preliminary core assay data to visible gold content, special analytical procedures have been implemented to more precisely determine the true grade of the numerous drill intersections containing visible gold. Therefore, the present preliminary drillhole data is not considered sufficient to permit meaningful grade and tonnage estimates, says the company.