First Follow-Up Drillhole Intersects 1.93% Copper, 0.15% Zinc, 0.28 g/t Gold And 14.0 g/t Silver Over 8.00m
Amex Exploration Inc. (TSXV: AMX) (FSE: MX0) (OTCQX: AMXEF) has had instant success in its first follow-up drillhole on the copper rich volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) QF zone at the Perron Project in Quebec.
The QF Zone occurs along the Normétal Mine Horizon which is a kilometric tuffaceous unit that host the nearby past-producing Normétal Mibe.
The QF Zone discovery drillhole, PEX-21-076, returned 2.40% copper, 0.72% zinc, 0.27 g/t gold and 22.15 g/t silver over 7.80m in August 2021. The new results from drillhole PEX-21-083, which is approximately 65 metres deeper than the discovery hole, returned 1.93% Cu, 0.15% Zn, 0.28 g/t Au, and 14.0 g/t Ag over 8.0m, including a high-grade core of 3.40% Cu, 0.25% Zn, 0.48 g/t Au, and 24.31 g/t Ag over 4.55m.
Executive Chairman, Dr Jacques Trottier, said the latest results confirm both the width and grade of the discovery hole.
“I am very pleased to have essentially replicated the widths and strong grades of the discovery hole with a vertical step down by 65m,” Dr Trottier said.
“This successful follow-up drill hole confirms that this mineralisation could be of significant size and we are enthusiastically looking forward to the results of this follow up drilling phase.
“We have since drilled additional holes targeting the on-strike and vertical extensions of this mineralisation. The similarity in grade of the QF Zone holes announced to date to the past-producing 10.1 million tonne Normétal Mine is especially encouraging.
On the backs of the successes to date on this zone, Amex has allocated an additional 5,000m of drilling to further test this copper-rich sulphide zone.”
In 2021, Amex conducted a small exploration program focused on the Normétal Mine Sequence, which is present over more than 4.5 km long within the Perron property.
The QF Zone represents one of several similar targets that occur along the Normétal Mine Sequence on the Perron project.
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