Velocity finding new moly in old Cassiar

Vancouver – The historic northern British Columbia mining town of Cassiar has a new resident: another junior exploration company searching out new riches in an old stomping ground.

Velocity Minerals (VLC-T) listed on the TSX in late May, shortly after acquiring a private company called Velocity Exploration for its two properties in northern BC. Now the new Velocity has spent a season exploring those two molybdenum properties, both of which both come with tantalizing historical reports.

Mt Haskin sits 8 km off Highway 37. According to a recent National Instrument 43-101 report, the Mt Haskin claims cover an intrusive-hosted porphyry-type molybdenite deposit as well as at least two skarn-type mineral zones. The molybdenite zone, which is in granitic porphyry, was first staked in 1961 and saw exploration from the now-defunct Della Mines from 1969 to 1974. Another company no longer in existence, Demand Gold, drilled the skarn areas in 1997.

Della put considerable effort into exploring Mt. Haskin, drilling more than 20,000 ft in 47 surface holes plus almost 6,000 ft in underground drilling and excavating two adits totalling 4,700 feet. The company traced the molybdenite zone for 1,900 ft strike and 500 ft width, and to 500 ft depth; Della also produced a resource estimate, now considered historical and not complaint with National Instrument 43-101 regulations, of 13.5 million tons grading 0.157% molybdenum.

This past summer Velocity punched 13 holes into Mt Haskin and returned some promising results. Hole 2 cut 128 feet grading 0.132% moly starting 22 feet downhole. Hole 3 hit 110 feet grading 0.157% moly from 15 feet depth and then returned 0.154% moly over 88 feet from 223 metres below surface.

Other results include 266 feet grading 0.048% moly in hole 4, including 25 feet grading 0.2% moly, and 356 feet averaging 0.06% moly in hole 7, including 45 feet of 0.18% moly.

Velocity’s other property, Cassiar Moy, is 22 km southwest of Mt Haskin and adjacent to Columbia Yukon’s Storie deposit. At Storie, Columbia Yukon has proven up an indicated resource of 98.3 million tonnes grading 0.64% moly and an inferred count of 30.9 million tonnes averaging 0.059% molybdenum.

The Cassiar Moly property has not been drilled but a previous operator drove 3,500 feet of crosscuts and drifts in an adit that eventually reached a point 700 vertical feet below outcropping mineralization. The outcropping mineralization has provided grades from 0.2% moly over 12 feet to 3.6% moly over 5 feet in old work. Historical reports also claim that chip samples from 700 metres below return grades similar and better.

Velocity is, of course, keen to test those historical numbers. The company spent considerable time over the summer re-opening the portal to the adit. Contractor delays meant workers were not able to get into the adit before winter but that is a top priority for next season.

Velocity was able to gather chip samples from the area and those support the historical reports. A 0.7-metre chip sample from the outcrop graded 0.869% moly; another small outcrop west of the portal returned 0.7 metres grading 0.124% moly; and a rock from the adit dump pile graded 1.273% moly.

Velocity shares are currently trading near 12¢. The company has a 52-week trading range of 11¢ to 90¢ and has 29 million shares outstanding, 44 million fully diluted.