Feb 14 2019
Midland Exploration Inc. takes immense pleasure in announcing the launch of a drilling program totaling over 1800 m, to test new geophysical targets recognized on the Jouvex project. This program is expected to start in the second week of February 2019.
Jouvex JV Location. (Image credit: Exploration Midland Inc.)
The Jouvex property includes 268 claims covering a total area of around 150 km2. This property has strong gold scope and covers the extension, across a strike length of over 6 km, of the Casa Berardi-Douay-Cameron deformation zone that holds the Casa Berardi mine situated approximately 65 km to the west and the Douay project situated just 7 km to the southeast, where deduced resources are estimated at 2.759 million ounces of gold (84,152,000 tonnes at 1.02 g/t Au) and indicated resources at 479,000 ounces of gold (9,383,000 tonnes at 1.59 g/t Au
New Exploration Targets Identified on Jouvex
Two OreVision® IP (IP) surveys totaling about 35 km were conducted in the northeast and northwest parts of the property in the spring of 2018. The target of these surveys was conductors and notable gold occurrences in volcanic rocks of the Orvilliers-Desmazures Group, close to the contact with the Taibi Group sedimentary rocks. On the Northwest grid, one drilling target was identified, whereas on the Northeast grid, four drilling targets were identified.
The first drill hole on the Northeast grid will examine the expansion of a mineralized zone intersected in historic drill hole KMA-88-71, at a vertical depth of 400 m, which graded 1.24 g/t Au across 6.8 m (194.38–201.18 m), including 4.4 g/t Au across 0.65 m. This gold value is related to a quartz eye-bearing mafic intrusive rock, which is modified to carbonate moderately to strongly and holds a network of 2%–5% fractures and quartz-carbonate veins with 5% pyrite and 1%–2% arsenopyrite mineralization.
Additionally, this drill hole will examine a chargeability IP anomaly of moderate intensity. Three extra drill holes will test three various IP anomalies typified by moderate to strong chargeability integrated with high resistivity. These three IP anomalies have never undergone drill-test.
On the Northwest grid, the final drill hole will test two parallel IP axes at the same time, situated along the extension of established gold occurrences, which are the Q-30 historic grading 1.0 g/t Au across 12.65 m along the north IP axis, and another grading 1.50 g/t Au across 1.4 m and 1.4 g/t Au across 0.7 m along the south IP axis.
Jouvex is a 50/50 joint venture project with SOQUEM INC.