Oct 28 2010
Sona Resources Corp. (TSX VENTURE:SYS)(FRANKFURT:QS7) has reported on five holes in the third round of assay results from the recently completed drill program at its 100 percent owned Elizabeth Gold Deposit Property, located in the Lillooet Mining District of southern British Columbia.
Important highlights from the diamond drilling include:
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Hole E10-66 intersected 17.4g Au/t over 1.54 metres.
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Hole E10-67 intersected 96.4g Au/t over 2.5 metres, including one assay interval of 383g Au/t over 0.5 metres.
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Hole E10-69 intersected 85.4g Au/t over 4.03 metres, including one assay interval of 230g Au/t over 1.0 metre.
Four drill holes, E10-66 to E10-69, targeted the southwestern end of the Southwest Vein, and three of the holes have expanded the mineralized zone in that direction. The Southwest Vein gold mineralization has now been intersected over a strike length of 325 metres, with the deepest hole drilled less than 200 metres from surface.
The fifth hole, E10-70, was drilled on the No. 9 Vein and intersected the target quartz vein over a core length of 1.8 metres, which was not mineralized at this location.
"The assay results from the Southwest Zone quartz vein continue to be extremely positive," says John P. Thompson, Sona's President and CEO. "We are expanding the Southwest Vein, and this high-grade gold mineralization remains wide open down dip and along strike to the southwest."
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.
Correction
On October 25, the independent assaying facility EcoTech Laboratory advised that in August it provided Sona with incorrect data on a high-grade sample from drill hole E10-51. The results should have been reported as 0.82g Au/t over a 0.51 metre core interval, not the 39.4g Au/t the laboratory stated. The composite assay over the interval 176.5 to 177.7 metres is therefore recalculated over the interval 177.01 to 177.70 metres as 10.35 g Au/t over 0.69 metres. The Company will undertake a re-assay of this hole, and will report any variances in a future news release.
Review
The content of this news release has been reviewed by John P. Thompson, P.Eng., a Qualified Person for the purposes of NI 43-101, with the ability and authority to verify the authenticity and validity of the data.
Source: Sona Resources Corp.