Rock and soil geochemical surveys by
The geochemical sampling concentrated on an area that plays host to a 2.6-km shear zone on the structural extension of the southeast-striking shear that hosts the Boston deposit.
Boston has a resource of 5.7 million tonnes grading 13.1 grams gold per tonne in the Hope Bay greenstone belt, east of Bathurst Inlet. The area south of Boston was sampled by previous operator
The highest gold values showed up in soil and rock overlying the southernmost 550 metres of the shear zone. They included soils with up to 25.7 grams gold per tonne and rock samples with up to 101 grams. The shear zone in this area is 15-40 metres wide at surface. About 16% of the rock samples had gold concentrations higher than 1 gram gold, and 28% of the soils showed gold concentrations in excess of 0.5 gram.
The grades in the southern area are roughly comparable to those found in material overlying the Boston deposit.
Over the 500-metre strike length nearest the Boston deposit, the partners found that about 20% of the rock samples had grades above 1 gram and that about 6% of soils exceeded 0.5 gram gold. The shear system mapped in this area consists of three or four sub-parallel shear zones in a 300-metre-wide deformation band. Mineralized outcrops strongly resemble the mineralized zones at Boston.
In the 1,550-metre stretch between the northern and southern zones, rock and soil gold contents are generally lower. Some samples, however, show concentrations comparable to those along the rest of the shear zone.
A planned drill program will assess the shear system.
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