Underground program in the cards for alevon

Some high grade gold values have been encountered in an underground drifting program at Levon Resources’ Congress property near Goldbridge, B. C. Assays from a 36-ft section in the Howard vein structure averaged 0.74 oz gold per ton over an average width of 4.9 ft.

The latest results represent an extension of an ore zone discovered earlier this year. The zone now totals 103 ft in length and averages 0.55 oz over a 4.3-ft width. The assays are among the best ever reported by Levon and they include 1.6 ft of 3.6 oz, 2.6 ft grading 1.1 oz, 5.2 ft averaging 1.1 oz and 4.7 ft of 0.87 oz, to list a few of them.

These assays are believed being rechecked to ensure accuracy and the company believes the actual widths may be greater because not all the vein was exposed in the tunnel. Underground drilling was expected to start by the end of February and it will be open-ended.

A company spokesman confirms the ore zones are quite poddy and the veins vary in width. Importantly, the vein tends to widen in the ore zone and he says they generally drive a crosscut into the wider zone when this happens.

The company is drifting blind on the Howard vein and the gold values are associated with a quartz carbonate alteration zone. The quartz veining occurs within the alteration envelope. Arsenic and antimony are associated with the gold, which is not uncommon to the Bralorne camp.

The property is higher in the stratigraphy but lower in elevation than the old Bralorne mine. Levon has been drilling the property for the past few seasons but it is difficult to assess the vein structures from surface. That work was done to determine the strike length of the various zones prior to the underground program, he says.