More zinc at Back Forty (October 15, 2007)

Aquila Resources (AQA-T, AQLRF-O) continues to intersect long intervals of massive and stringer sulphides on its Back Forty base metal project, in Menominee Cty., Mich.

Recent drilling on the property’s Main Zone Hinge (a southwest-plunging fold hinge hosting mainly zinc and silver mineralization) cut 169 metres of massive and stringer sulphides, including a 35.6-metre massive sulphide intersection grading 6.89% zinc and 14.1 grams silver with minor copper, lead and gold, and a separate 7.1-metre interval of massive sulphides grading 19.01% zinc and 30.1 grams silver.

The whole 169 metres graded 1.48% zinc, 0.42% copper, 0.09% lead, 1.45 grams gold and 11.44 grams silver per tonne; copper and gold grades are substantially higher in the stringer sulphide material.

Two other holes ran through significant widths of massive sulphides, 60.6 metres in one and 30.3 metres in the other, at grades comparable to the other drill hole.

Drill holes on the Pinwheel zone, northwest and structurally above the Main Zone, intersected massive sulphide mineralization as well. Among the better intersections was a 9.1-metre interval grading 10.29% zinc, 0.54% copper, 0.26% lead, 22.3 grams silver and 0.8 gram gold per tonne.

Beneath Pinwheel, two drill holes showed “significant footwall alteration,” and were extended deeper, with one intersecting 12 metres and the other 7 metres of massive-sulphide mineralization, mainly sphalerite. Aquila geologists think there is a possibility the mineralization is a down-plunge extension of the Main Zone Hinge. Assay results on those holes are pending.