Benchmark Metals Inc. (TSXV: BNCH) (OTCQX: BNCHF) has resumed drilling to expand gold-silver zones during January, 2022. The programme will continue from the 83,570 metres completed in 2021.
The company anticipates drilling 20,000m during the winter drill program to expand and define the existing resource areas and to advance the new discovery – Marmot Zone. 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.
“Benchmark is leveraging its road accessible project by drilling during the winter months to deliver more results in early 2022 and to expedite the project towards a mining a decision. The company anticipates near-term results to be distributed from 2021 drilling with a focus on resource expansion areas,” CEO, John Williamson, said.
Benchmark is planning to mobilise drill crews and its geological team to the Project in anticipation of a drill start during January 2021. Drilling will focus on multiple areas of near-surface gold and silver mineralization that remain open along-strike and at-depth, including:
- Cliff Creek Mid Deposit – 2021 infill drilling along a 50 metre strike-length 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. These results have the potential to add significant, higher-grade gold and silver ounces in an updated mineral resource estimate;
- Connector Zone – This new zone is located partially outside of and marginal to the existing resource, currently extending over ~300 metres in strike-length and ~130 metres vertical depth. The new results at the Connector Zone have significant potential to add gold-silver ounces laterally and at depth, as well as optimize pit shell design to positively impact the project economics;
- Dukes Ridge Deposit – The discovery of new high-grade material at surface generates flexibility and potential for higher-grade starter pits and provides significant rewards to potential future mine production schedules. Drilling in 2021 also showed the potential for Dukes Ridge expansion at depth? as well as conversion of material previously modelled as waste in the resource model;
- Marmot Zone – The mineralising system at Marmot continues to display similarities to the resource deposit areas on the property, with both bulk tonnage and high-grade mineralisation intercepted in multiple drill holes. The drill results align with significant surface mineralisation that delineates a mineralised footprint that currently extends an approximate 400 metres in strike-length. Continued drilling is designed to define at-surface material as well as identify structural controls of the system.
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