A re-assaying program by
Since February, Patricia has relogged and sampled 24 holes it drilled in the Island and North shear zones in the late 1990s. About 750 new assays have been generated as a result, with another 250 expected to be gleaned as another 26 holes are relogged and sampled.
Sixteen of the Island holes typically ran between 1 and 5 grams per tonne over 4 to 65 metres (core-length). However, higher-grading intervals are noted, ranging from 6.3 grams over 12.7 metres to 20.1 grams over 6.2 metres.
Four intervals from the North shear yielded 0.9 gram over 21.8 metres, 1 gram over 31 metres, 1.14 grams over 6 metres, and 1.41 grams over 43.3 metres. Two others ran 4.8 grams over 8.5 metres and 2.3 grams over 14.8 metres.
The Island shear zone is the wider of the two, averaging 30-40 metres in horizontal width, whereas the North shear averages 20 metres. Both are considered potentially amenable to bulk-mining methods along a strike length of 1.5 km and to a depth of about 250 metres below surface, though each stretches beyond those limits.
In 1997, the Island shear zone was pegged with a resource of 883,000 tonnes averaging 6.6 grams gold per tonne. North was only discovered recently, and the known resource apparently excludes surrounding halos of low-grade mineralization.
Both zones are accessible by an existing decline that was driven in the 1980s, when Canamax Resources was mining the nearby Kremzar deposit. Mining operations ceased in 1990 and the company was subsequently merged with two others to form Canada Tungsten, which has since become a unit of
The project also sports a carbon-in-pulp mill and related infrastructure. The facilities are capable of handling 650 tonnes of ore daily.
Patricia is incorporating 50,000 metres of drilling into its new resource model, plus the new data. The study is scheduled for completion by the end of June.
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