Blackrock Silver Corp. (TSXV: BRC) has obtained high-grade drill results from the company’s ongoing step-out and in-fill drilling programs on its 100% controlled Tonopah West project located in West Central Nevada along the Walker Lane trend.
These results demonstrate continued expansion of the key known mineralised structure on the project, the Denver vein system (also known as “Victor”), by an additional 600 m to the Northwest, which has now grown to over three kilometres of drill-defined strike, and is projected to remain open to the west. In addition, assays have encountered a substantial new zone of mineralisation to the south, including our highest-grade and shallowest intercept at the project to date.
Highlights:
- Core hole TXC22-057 has delivered the highest-grade intercept at the project to date, intersecting 0.91 metres of 37.86 g/t Au and 2,740 g/t Ag or 6,526.7 g/t AgEq within 1.52 metres grading 22.88 g/t Au and 1,654.1 g/t Ag or 3,942.2 g/t AgEq starting at 191.42 metres down-hole in the New Discovery area along the southern edge of the DPB resource area
- RC hole TW22-118 intersected 1.52 metres of the Denver vein grading 1.70 grams per tonne (g/t) gold (Au) and 0.1 g/t silver (Ag) or 171 g/t silver equivalent (AgEq) a full 1.6 kilometres northwest of the DPB resource area. A follow-up core drillhole is planned to target for higher-grades at a more favourable elevation;
- Drilling continues to expand the mineralised footprint well beyond the April 2022 resource boundary and remains open to the south, northwest, and at depth; and
- Two drill rigs are operating at site and assays for 10 drillholes are pending at this time.
“With two drill rigs at site, the latest assays from our ongoing 25,000 metre programme have materially expanded the footprint of known mineralisation at the project, both to the northwest and to the south, delivering what is our highest-grade and shallowest intercept to date for the project in a new and quickly developing target area,” President and CEO, Andrew Pollard, said.
“The Denver vein system, which includes Victor, continues to show significant resource expansion potential, as step-out drilling has now tracked it an additional 1.6 kilometres to the northwest beyond the DPB resource area, with a further 500 metre step-out planned as part of this programme.
“Our exploration model, of which continues to be validated, indicates that this structure remains wide open to the west, where we have an additional 1600 metres of strike potential to our consolidated Tonopah property boundary. It’s clear that the project also has very deep roots and it remains open at depth as we’ve yet to find the bottom of the mineralised system.”
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