A second diamond drill has allowed X-Cal Resources to step up drilling on its Snowbird gold- antimony property in central British Columbia’s Omineca district.
A detailed geophysical survey now in progress, which has extended the lateral extensions of the main zone currently being drilled, has revealed a parallel anomalous zone with a strike length exceeding 1,000 ft, located approximately 600 ft to the east of the main zone.
The parallel zone’s position coincides with an overburden-filled draw in which anomalous geochemical values for antimony and mercury occur.
The geophysical survey is being extended to other parts of the 5,500-acre Snowbird property. Planned by X-Cal is a program of overburden drilling for initial testing of other targets, along the large regional structure which may be revealed by the survey.
According to President Shawn Kennedy, recent drilling has prompted X-Cal to secure estimates of the cost involved in rehabilitating a 100-ft shaft sunk on the property in the 1940s. The rehabilitation would permit limited drifting and bulk sampling of the known gold-antimony mineralization at the bottom of the shaft.
Drilling completed last December indicated several high grade sections with visible gold.
X-Cal can earn a 100% interest in the property, which is optioned from Pipawa Resources, a private firm controlled by Dr Franc Joubin, subject to a 3% net smelter return payable to Pipawa.
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