Blind Creek Resources has encountered several veins of silver and gold, which returned up to 226 g/t silver and 11.3 g/t gold over 1 m that is 4 km to the south of the Engineer gold-silver mine, through the reconnaissance drill program conducted at the Wann River project, northern British Columbia.
The company conducted reconnaissance drilling of 3,325 m, totaling 17 holes, in a zone that has seven freshly identified quartz vein systems located in a potential corridor of 800 x 180 m near the Wann River project. It performed drilling from WR1 to WR5, five separate drill pads. The company’s targets will be on a high grade epithermal silver-gold quartz vein system and a silver-gold mesothermal quartz stockwork porphyry system.
Blind Creek has obtained information from 13 drill holes located at the nine mineralized intersections. It is waiting for the data from three drill holes. The hole WR05-01-11 was not examined.
Metamorphosed diorite, fine grained diorite, and medium grained granodiorite, un-metamorphosed slightly porphyritic quartz, or fine to medium grained diorite is contained in the drilled rock intercepts. Several segments of the quartz stock works and intersections of quartz veins of up to 3 m long are present.
Analytical silver and gold, visible chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, tetrahedrite, arsenopyrite and molybdenite are housed at the multiple quartz vein systems on surface. Drill core has shown these minerals from visible to trace amounts.
The processing of the drill core incorporated descriptive sampling and logging for the geochemical examination. The company diamond sawed the NTW-size drill core into two halves at its borrowed facilities in BC. It sent the sample pulps to Eco Tech Laboratory in B.C., after the completion of the sample preparations, for fire assay, ICP 28 element testing, geochemical gold examination.
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