Nevada Pacific pulls higher grades from Buffalo Canyon

Preliminary surface sampling has turned up higher grades from a known gold showing at the Buffalo Canyon project in Nye County, Nevada.

Nevada Pacific Gold (NPG-V) took 65 samples from the showing, yielding a best result of 0.492 oz. per ton. Fourteen samples carried more than 0.1 oz. and 26 had more than 0.04 oz.

Samples were taken from a package of hornfelsed and silicified sedimentary and metavolcanic rocks that was drill-tested in the early 1990s. Results from the 17 vertical reverse-circulation holes, which were collared to test a large soil anomaly, varied from 0.017 oz. over 155 ft. to 0.027 oz. over 130 ft.

Mineralization is associated with pervasive stockworks of chlorite, quartz, calcite and sulphide-bearing veins. The highest grades came from local areas of moderate to strong potassic alteration and banded quartz-vein stockworks.

The showing lies northwest of a quartz-diorite intrusion. That too yielded anomalous gold in the recent program, suggesting an association between the two.

Detailed surface work and geophysical surveying is under way. Drilling will follow.