Willow Creek Enterprises Defines Future Drilling for Hercules Property
Willow Creek Enterprises has defined future drilling program for its Hercules Gold and Silver Property. This property is situated in the Walker Lane Mineral Belt in southern Lyon County, Nevada. The company is anticipating the start the drilling program by early June 2011.
The company has planned for an exploration program to execute reverse and core circulation-rotary (RC), angle drill holes. By means of infill drilling, this program will try to verify and develop indicated resources.
According to the President of Willow Creek, Terry Fields, it has described an extremely focused drilling program having high possibilities of extending the Hercules resource property. He added that the exploration and geologist team of the company have made a major growth prospective by means of adding new claims and targeting the potential regions. According to him, the company is excited to start the next exploration phase at its flagship property.
The company’s planned drilling program will contain around 8 - 10 drill holes and initial drilling of approximately 3,000+ ft. The drilling depth varies from 200 to 500 ft and spacing between the holes is 50 - 100 ft. This balanced and focused drilling will target the West Cliff and Hercules region and North to ABC zones. Drilling should have continued flexibility in order to discover new targets.
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