Texas Zone Returns High-Grade Polymetallics
BeMetals Corp.(TSXV:BMET) has received a new batch of positive analytical results from its Phase 2 underground diamond drilling programme at the high-grade South Mountain Zinc-Silver-Gold-Copper Project in southwestern Idaho.
The results demonstrate that South Mountain’s Texas Zone contains both high-grade Copper-Silver and Zinc-Silver-Gold mineralisation.
The company’s 2020 programme intersected mineralisation at depths beyond any historical drilling of the Texas Zone and the deposit remains open to depth.
Highlights:
Texas West Zone:
- 10.85m grading 2.56% Cu, 260.1 g/t Ag, 0.26 g/t Au, 0.10% Pb and 0.13% Zn
- 7.62m grading 1.64% Cu, 279.5 g/t Ag, 0.74g/t Au, 0.86% Pb and 0.55% Zn, including: 5.17m grading, 2.23% Cu, 337.9 g/t Ag, 1.02 g/t Au, 1.12% Pb and 0.77% Zn
- 7.01m grading 2.84% Cu, 181.5 g/t Ag, 0.22 g/t Au, 0.01% Pb and 0.29% Zn, including: 4.79m grading, 3.81% Cu, 244.3 g/t Ag, 0.17 g/t Au, 0.01% Pb and 0.07% Zn
Texas East Zone:
• 8.35 m grading 4.17% Zn, 194.8 g/t Ag, 4.05 g/t Au, 0.78% Pb and 0.54% Cu
A total of 2,714 m of underground core drilling was completed during Phase 2, with 30 holes in both the Texas and DMEA zones. During this drilling campaign, the company’s site team widened and advanced the existing Sonneman level eastwards by some 52m to establish a new drill station closer to the Texas Zone.
With better access to drill the Texas Zone, a total of 24 holes were completed to test this zone of mineralisation. Geological logging of the core supported by sampling results indicate that two styles of high-grade mineralisation have developed in this area and are now identified as the Texas West and Texas East zones.
The 2020 drill programme has delivered on intersecting mineralisation extending the Texas Zone further down dip of historical drilling and the exposures in the underground development. Texas Zone mineralisation is now interpreted to continue from the collar of the old Texas Shaft some 350m down dip to the SM20-050 intercept. Both the Texas West and East zones remain open to depth.
