Aggressive Finland Drill Programme Planned
FireFox Gold Corp. (TSXV:FFOX) has successfully generated a series of drill targets throughout its extensive gold property portfolio in the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt (CLGB) of Finland.
The FireFox technical team, including the experts at GoldSpot Discoveries, has completed a ranking of the various targets to guide an aggressive drilling programme, which the company intends to commence this northern fall starting at the 100% owned Mustajärvi Gold Project
Mustajärvi is FireFox’s most advanced project. The company has completed two previous drilling campaigns, with multiple intervals of high-grade gold intersected, and mineralization remaining open in three directions and down-dip.
FireFox’s summer 2020 exploration programme integrated new and existing data from rock and trench sampling, till surveys, geophysical surveys, and structural analysis. At Mustajärvi, this process generated three types of priority drill targets:
- Continuation of chargeability anomalies into metasediments north of known mineralization;
- Major structural intersections and flexures coincident with geophysical anomalies; and
- Structurally disrupted rigid bodies with alteration as well as gold and geochemical anomalies in till.
Dr. Richard Goldfarb, Technical Advisor for FireFox, highlighted the prospectivity of this southern portion of the CLGB where FireFox, Rupert Resources, B2 Gold, and Aurion Resources are actively exploring:
“The southern part of the Kittilä terrane is marked by the structurally complex Sirkka-Venejoki system of faults that has been long noted as related to numerous gold occurrences,” Dr Goldfarb said.
“Recent drilling activity on these anomalies in this structural corridor by a number of companies clearly indicates that the area comprises a part of the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt that is highly prospective for the discovery of large orogenic gold deposits.
“FireFox’s Mustajärvi occurrence comprises gold-bearing veins along a sedimentary-volcanic rock contact within the trans-crustal Venejoki Fault.
“Two concealed rigid gabbro bodies on opposite sides of the fault, to the southwest of any past workings, represent distinctive sites of heterogeneous stress that are typical of environments world-wide hosting major orogenic gold deposits.
“Structures reflecting highly fractured intrusive rock identified from geophysical modeling now indicate some very exciting drill targets in this part of Mustajärvi.” The Mustajärvi Project is situated approximately 17 km east of the town of Kittilä in flat, glacial till-covered terrain occupying high ground that is reached via paved highway, making it easily accessible for a fall drill campaign.
