Noront, Alto add potential to Windfall

Partners Noront Resources (NOR-V) and Alto Minerals (ATO-V) are following-up encouraging drill results with a geophysical survey at the Windfall Lake gold project in Quebec’s Urban Twp.

The program, aimed at defining a potential east-west sulphide trend, will be followed by a third phase of diamond drilling.

Winter drilling encountered near-surface mineralization in a 600-metre-wide zone with a 250-metre strike length. Highlights include hole 5, which hit 9.5 metres averaging 35.27 grams gold per tonne (uncut). Previously, the company reported a 10-metre section grading 19.2 grams gold in hole 3 which shared the same geology as hole 5.

Gold mineralization is associated with pyrite in extensively altered felsic volcanics related to a rhyolite dome or vent. The sulphide mineralization (primarily consisting of pyrite with minor chalcopyrite) ranges from disseminations to semi-massive stringers and bands of patches throughout the entire core length of all the holes.

During the winter drill program, a hole tested a zinc soil-rock geochemical anomaly immediately south of the Windfall property. This hole returned anomalous gold and zinc values, with a 0.64-metre intersection assaying 2% zinc, 10 grams gold and anomalous copper. This zinc soil anomaly trends onto the Windfall property and appears to occur southeast of the gold zones.

The partners envision the Windfall project as a large open-pit mine containing both gold and base metal mineralization.

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