Messina Minerals has announced the final assays from a nine hole diamond drilling conduced at the Brook prospect, located in the Victoria property, Canada. The company intersected 5.5% copper over 4.0 m in the hole VIC11-02.
This Victoria property is situated in the company’s huge land package potential, approximately 450 sq. km, for base metal deposits and lies around 20 km from the Duck Pond mine, containing copper and zinc.
The drilling program aimed to examine the shallow continuity of immense sulphide mineralization, rich in copper. The company drilled nine holes to depths of down hole that ranges from 30 to 60 m. The hole spacings were 25 m apart and the holes analyzed a strike of 75 m length to a vertical depth of around 50 m.
Six holes out of nine cut huge copper and pyrite bearing sulphide intervals down hole over 1.0 to 4.0 m, including assays from 1.1% to 5.5% copper. More chaotic carbonate alteration is related with the immense sulphides. The sulphide zone exists continuously across the tested length of 75 m. The sulphide zone has been drilled for around 45° of apparent dip. The drilling results are consistent with the grab sampling results.
According to Peter Tallman, Messina’s CEO and President, the Brook prospect has huge sulphide, containing copper, covered by more carbonate alteration that has proposed the continuous presence of a potential area.
Source: http://www.messinaminerals.com/