With three drills turning on its projects in northeastern Ontario and northwestern Quebec, this winter is shaping up to be a busy one for
The company recently completed a 6-hole, 3,200-metre program at the Anoki South Zone project in Kirkland Lake, Ont. The deposit, discovered last fall, lies 250 metres south of the Anoki deposit, which has measured and indicated resources of 1.1 million tonnes averaging 4.1 grams gold per tonne.
Anoki South Zone is hosted in a 5-to-30-metre-thick unit of altered interflow sedimentary and volcanic rocks, which contains trace amounts of sulphides. Previous drilling by Queenston intersected elevated gold values ranging from 0.1 to 123.5 grams gold, which were associated with carbonatized and silicified alteration zones.
The recent drilling tested Anoki South with stepouts at 60-metre intervals, the objective being to expand the high-grade mineralized core. Hole 33, which extended the core 60 metres to the east, intersected the host inter-flow unit over a width of 33.6 metres. Within this unit, two separate intervals assayed 7.2 grams gold per tonne over 1.5 metres and 3.3 grams gold over 4.9 metres. The remaining five holes cut low gold values ranging from 0.1 to 2.7 grams gold.
To date, drilling at Anoki South has outlined a zone of anomalous mineralization roughly 180 by 180 metres, which remains open along strike. The zone contains a high-grade core that extends 120 metres and plunges 45 to the east, where it remains open and appears to thicken.
Queenston is conducting a deep-penetrating induced-polarization (IP) survey to determine the extent of the core of Anoki South Zone, as well as test for possible repetitions. Drilling will then test the down-plunge extension to the east and other targets as determined by the IP survey.
Farther west at Anoki South Zone, Queenston has drilled four holes (2,300 metres) to investigate a broad zone of alteration that hosts the 180 East and Biroco gold zones. Although no significant mineralization was intersected, the company believes the zone has potential for hosting an economic gold deposit.
Queenston’s next undertaking in the Kirkland Lake camp will be a 17-hole, 6,300-metre drill program on four properties, namely the Vigrass, Amalgamated Kirkland, Gull Lake and North Break. The program will test a variety of gold environments across the company’s land holdings, including the Larder Lake Break, the 103 Break, Kirkland Lake Main Break and the North Break.
In northwestern Quebec, Queenston has started a 4-hole, 3,000-metre drilling program at the Pandora property in Cadillac Twp. The program is testing a gold-bearing horizon that hosts a significant new discovery on the Lapa property, which adjoins Pandora to the east.
Earlier this year, partners
Queenston sees the Pandora property as having significant potential as well. The common border between the Pandora and Lapa properties lies only 200 metres from the Contact zone, and the Cadillac-Larder Lake Break can be traced across the Pandora property for some 4.5 km.
Historically, the Pandora property produced 35,000 oz. gold from four shafts in the 1930s. At present, six gold zones are outlined, including North and South Branch, and these have a combined inferred resource of 2.2 million tonnes averaging 4.5 grams gold per tonne. The North and South Branch zones extend eastward and continue on to the Lapa property to form the Tonawanda zone, the mineral inventory of which exceeds 1.8 million tonnes averaging 6.5 grams gold.
Queenston’s program includes three holes that will test for a possible extension of the Contact zone on the eastern portion of the property, near the Lapa property boundary, and 1 hole to test an IP anomaly at the centre of Pandora.
— The author is a Toronto-based freelance writer on mining-related issues and a frequent contributor to Nickel magazine.
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