Westhaven Gold Corp. (TSXV: WHN) has obtained positive drill results from its ongoing, fully-financed drill campaign at its 100% owned 17,623ha Shovelnose gold property in British Columbia.
The company has reported assays for 21 holes from its ongoing drill campaign at Shovelnose. An additional 31 holes (17 holes from Shovelnose, 14 from Skoonka) are in the lab pending assays.
“The recent drilling results at Shovelnose continue to build assurance in the continuity of gold mineralization as we move northwest at the FMN Zone towards the Franz Zone. The overall gold-silver endowment is growing steadily. With multiple drill holes in the lab from both Shovelnose and Skoonka, we are looking forward to many more near term catalysts,” President and CEO, Gareth Thomas, said.
Recent Drilling Highlights:
- SNR22-295(FMN : 218.00-243.00m) – 25.00m of 1.95g/t Au and 5.61g/t Ag, including 6.61m of 4.64g/t Au and 9.36g/t Ag, including 0.71m of 10.05g/t Au and 11.60g/t Ag, and 2.06m of 7.22g/t Au and 16.80g/t Ag.
- SNR22-285(FMN : 73.02-99.06m) – 26.04m of 1.22g/t Au and 5.66g/t Ag, including 12.86m of 2.20g/t Au and 9.69g/t Ag, including 5.24m of 4.21g/t Au and 12.77g/t Ag.
- SNR22-283 (FMN : 40.00-64.91m) – 24.91m of 0.73 g/t Au, and 3.64g/t Ag, including 6.50m of 2.30g/t Au, and 11.19g/t Ag, including 2.00m of 4.38g/t Au, and 16.59g/t Ag.
“Drilling over the last two months at Shovelnose has continued to be focused on the FMN target area,” Exploration manager, Peter Fischl, said.
“Two dominant styles of mineralization continue to be encountered here at FMN, quartz vein hosted within Vein Zone 1 and post-mineral heterolithic breccia hosted, which contains fragments of quartz derived from Vein Zone 1.
“Holes SN22-283 (0.73g/t Au over 24.9m) and SN22-285 (1.22g/t Au over 26.0m) are recent examples of the former and hole SN22-295 (1.95g/t Au over 25.0m) is a recent example of the latter.
“Step-out drilling to the northwest on 50m spaced sections at FMN continues to intercept near surface vein and breccia targets as we close the gap in Vein Zone 1 between FMN and the Franz showing, now within 150m.”
Peripheral Exploration Targets
Holes SN22-296, 300 and 302 belong to the component of Westhaven’s 2022 work programme testing peripheral targets off the main northwest trending 4km-long ‘main mineralized’ structure (host to the South, Tower, FMN and Franz Zones).
These three exploration holes were situated southwest of the main structure and evaluated the potential for veining with dips opposite to those at the South Zone – the classic ‘flower’ structure associated with epithermal deposits. Previous drilling in this area either was not at an optimal orientation or had overshot the current target.
Holes SN22-296 and 300 successfully intersected mineralization (0.64g/t Au over 3.36m in SN22-296 and 0.33 g/t Au over 3.0m in SN22-300). Today’s results are significant because, in conjunction with those previously reported for drilling at HydBx-02 and elsewhere on the property (e.g. gold bearing quartz veins outcropping at the Mik/Line 6 showings, and other unsourced soil/rock geochemical anomalies), they continue to demonstrate the potential for discovery of new gold bearing structures at Shovelnose.
Franz
Detailed mapping at 1:100 scale has commenced at Franz to follow-up the recently completed stripping and washing of the showing. This work will help guide follow-up detailed surface sampling to compliment the previously completed drilling here that may eventually lead to a near surface resource estimate for Vein Zone 1 at Franz.
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