Burin Gold Corp. (TSXV:BURG) has commenced drilling operations at its Hickey’s Pond – Paradise Gold Project (HPP Project) on the Burin Peninsula in south-eastern Newfoundland.
The first of two planned diamond drills has been mobilised to site and has started drilling at the Hickey’s Pond prospect. A minimum of 10,000 m of diamond drilling is planned for the property in 2022. This will include the first phase of a resource definition programme at Hickey’s Pond, as well as exploration drilling of several of the other high priority, yet to be drill tested targets on the property.
The programme is fully funded, with approximately C$5.6 million currently in the company treasury.
Hickey’s Pond drilling programme
Drilling has commenced on the historical Hickey’s Pond showing. The company’s initial scout drilling in 2020 obtained a best result of 10.8 m of 4.43 g/t Au within a larger interval of 58.25 m of 1.12 g/t Au in hole HP-20-002.
Overall, the footprint of the alteration system around Hickey’s Pond is over 7 km in strike length, and less than 10% of this has received even cursory drill testing.
The first 10 drill holes of the 2022 programme will be located on the Hickey’s Pond showing, as follow-up drilling to the company’s 2020 scout drill holes.
The new holes are designed to both expand the footprint of mineralisation along strike, provide infill drilling for resource modelling, and test down-dip of the mineralised structure for continuity of mineralisation to depth.
CEO, David Clare, said a total of 1,900m in ten diamond drill holes are planned for the area of the historical showing, drilled on four 50 m spaced sections.
“I am pleased that our exploration team in Newfoundland has mobilised a diamond drill quickly to start our 2022 drill programme.
“We have many excellent targets to test, so an early start will maximise the amount of drilling we can complete this year at Hickey’s Pond and elsewhere on the property.
“We anticipate that, with current assay laboratory backlogs, gold assay results for the first drill holes should be available in mid-April.
However, our 2020 drill programme has given us a good understanding of the appearance of the mineralised units at Hickey’s Pond, so while gold assay results are pending, we should be able to keep our shareholders updated with geological descriptions of alteration and mineralisation observed in the drill holes.”
Second diamond drill mobilisation
A second diamond drill is planned for mobilisation in the next two weeks. The selection of drill targets for the second drill will be dependent on the long-term weather forecast for the remainder of winter on the Burin Peninsula.
Along-strike drilling at Hickey’s Pond to quickly expand the footprint of alteration and mineralisation and early testing of other undrilled high priority targets are both planned; the order of drilling will proceed in the most efficient manner possible.
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