Noront plans underground sampling at Windfall

In a bid to get better information about the morphology and grade of the Windfall gold deposit in Urban Twp., northwestern Quebec, Noront Resources (NOT-V) is planning an underground bulk sample program.

A recent drilling program at Windfall returned further high-grade intersections but has not shown definitively how those intersections line up, so Noront is seeking permits to take a bulk sample. While awaiting regulatory approval, the company plans a series of short drill holes to guide the later progress of an underground decline.

Most of the recent drill holes intersected multiple narrow zones of gold mineralization, with grades typically in the 4-gram to 8-gram-per-tonne range. The longest intersections were in hole NOT06-101, where a 10-metre interval ran 5.1 grams gold per tonne and a deeper 5.4-metre intersection ran 4.4 grams per tonne. Some other holes encountered narrower high-grade intersections, including a 0.4-metre intersection in hole NOT06-108 that graded 24.6 grams per tonne.