Encouraging intersections have been returned from drilling on the Snowbird property of X-Cal Resources in British Columbia’s Omenica mining division, the company reports.
President Shawn Kennedy says in a recent 3,000-ft drill program on the property, hole No X-86-2 intersected 13.9 ft at 0.027 oz gold per ton, including a 3.3-ft section of 0.637 oz.
Mr Kennedy said the intersection was located 50 vertical feet below a previous drill hole which intersected 8 ft of 0.584 oz.
He said another hole, X-86-6 intersected visible native gold over 0.5 ft which returned an assay of 248.16 oz gold, and 84.58 oz silver.
The high grade intersection over a narrow width is significant for two reasons, the president said, one of which is that it is located midway between two good drill holes, P-80-6, (100 ft to the north of hole X-86-6), which intersected 3 ft of 0.698 oz, and X-86-7, located 100 ft along strike to the south, which intersected 3.28 ft of 0.715 oz and 2 ft of 0.227 oz.
The drill program was completed under the direction of Sampson Engineering, in December.
X-Cal can earn a 100% interest in the property, which is optioned from Pipawa Resources, a private company controlled by Dr Franc Joubin, subject to a 3% net smelter return payable to Pipawa.
Mr Kennedy says several holes drilled prior to the 1986 program did not pass all the way through the alteration zone, and may have missed values. These will be deepened, and as well the company will undertake overburden drilling this year to target drill holes elsewhere on the property. January 26, 1987
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