Dec 3 2010
Sona Resources Corp. (TSX VENTURE:SYS)(FRANKFURT:QS7) has reported assay results from surface sampling and diamond drilling that targeted the No. 9 Vein at its 100 percent owned Elizabeth Gold Deposit Property, located in the Lillooet Mining District of south-central British Columbia, 220 kilometres north of Vancouver.
The No. 9 Vein is a south-trending quartz carbonate structure situated approximately 500 metres to the north of the Southwest Vein. The area contains historical underground workings, driven in 1949 and 1950 in a southerly direction along the vein for 280 metres. On a steep slope above the old No. 9 Vein portal, a narrow structure of sheared quartz veining can be seen that varies in width from a few to 20 centimetres wide.
The current program is the first exploration work undertaken by Sona on the No. 9 Vein, and consisted of five chip samples collected above the portal on average every three metres in a southerly direction, varying in width from seven to 18 centimetres. In sequence, the assay results returned the following values:
The highest-grade gold sample returned silver values of 80.0g Ag/t.
As a part of the 2010 drill program, Sona completed three drill holes at the No. 9 Vein, two of which successfully intersected the vein; the third hole stopped short of the target. The holes were collared about 40 metres south of the No. 9 Vein portal, and intersected the vein at approximately 50 and 100 metres below the adit level.
In 1983, R.W. Phendler (Phendler, R.W., Sampling Program – Yalokom Property, BC private company report, 1983) completed an underground sampling program of the continuous No. 9 quartz vein. The report stated that it had intersected three separate zones of gold-bearing ore shoots along the drift and indicated the high nature of the zones:
- 44.3g Au/t over an average of 0.43 metres width and 48.70 metres length;
- 25.4g Au/t over an average of 0.62 metres width and 15.20 metres length; and
- 20.6g Au/t over an average of 0.44 metres width and 10.70 metres length.
Quality Assurance/Quality Control
Drill core was logged and split on site, and half-core samples were analyzed using metallic screening gold fire assaying and 30-element ICP multi-acid digestion, at the independent EcoTech Laboratory in Kamloops, B.C. A QA/QC program consisting of duplicate samples, insertion of known standards and check assaying was employed.
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Source: Sona Resources Corp.