Benchmark Metals Inc. (TSXV: BNCH) (OTCQX: BNCHF) (WKN: A2JM2X) has returned high-grade intersections from infill drilling at the Cliff Creek Mid Zone at the Lawyers Gold-Silver Project in prolific Golden Horseshoe area of north-central British Columbia, Canada.
The latest results include 3.05m core length of 56.65 grams per tonne gold and 79.75 g/t silver or 57.65 g/t gold equivalent (AuEq) within 68.58m core length of 3.07 g/t gold and 11.72 g/t silver or 3.22 g/t AuEq in drill hole 21CCRC020.
Infill drilling on the east side of the Cliff Creek Mid Zone has intersected near-surface high-grade and bulk-tonnage mineralisation in a portion of the Mid Zone that was thought to be weakly to modestly mineralised based upon intermittently sampled historical drilling.
CEO, John Williamson, said these results have the potential to add significant, higher-grade gold and silver ounces in an updated mineral resource estimate. Benchmark’s flagship Lawyers Gold-Silver Project is located within a road accessible region of the prolific Golden Horseshoe area of north-central British Columbia, Canada.
“The Cliff Creek Mid zone is now not only expanding at depth but also to the east with higher-grade gold and silver mineralisation. The new gold-silver mineralisation begins near surface and was previously unrecognised in this area,” Mr Williamson said.
“This type of near surface higher-grade mineralization will have a positive impact on the Preliminary Economic Analysis (PEA) by delivering early year’s material in the production schedule. Benchmark has planned additional diamond drilling to focus on expanding this zone.”
Similar to the recently announced discovery of shallow high-grade and bulk-tonnage mineralisation in the connector zone this discovery indicates a number of advantages:
• Conversion of previously modelled waste in the resource model to mineralised domains;
• The ability to expand the pit shells as the resource grows, and;
• Near surface high-grade mineralisation generates flexibility and potential for higher-grade starter pits.
Mr Williamson said these new results are defining strong continuity of gold and silver mineralization over 50m and the system remains open along strike. A number of new drill holes have been planned to follow-up on this zone looking to extend it along strike to the northwest and southeast.
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