Wolfden drills High Lake

Infill drilling by Wolfden Resources (YWO-V) at the High Lake copper-zinc deposit in Nunavut has returned high copper grades.

Four holes were recently completed on the deposit, about 500 km northeast of Yellowknife, N.W.T. Two holes tested the up-dip extension of the deposit’s known B Zone, one cutting a 14.4-metre interval grading 12.73% copper, 0.46% zinc, 0.79 gram gold and 40.6 grams silver per tonne. Two other intervals in the same zone, 3.1 and 4.2 metres wide, returned copper grades in the 3-4% range.

The second hole cut a 4.3-metre intersection of massive sulphides grading 1.4% copper, 0.22% zinc, 1.2 grams gold and 49 grams silver per tonne. Wolfden geologists believe it is a remnant of massive sulphide enclosed in a diabase dyke that post-dates the mineralization.

Two other infill holes confirmed wide intersections of massive sulphides, with copper grades of 2.66% to 7%. One hole cut two other zones; these appear to correlate with intersections found by previous operators and may indicate parallel mineralized zones deeper than the B zone.

Wolfden, which acquired High Lake from Rio Tinto’s (RTP-N) Canadian subsidiary Kennecott Canada and Aber Resources (ABZ-T), expects to be drilling again this week.