Samples 7,013 g/t Silver, 12.7 g/t Gold At Rock & Roll Claims
Etruscus Resources Corp. (CSE: ETR) has uncovered substantial rock sampling results from the newly discovered “Thunderstruck” target in the Eskay Camp of BC’s resource-rich Golden Triangle.
The Thunderstruck target is located 1.5 km southeast of the Hurricane Target – both located on the recently staked extended Rock & Roll claims, and 13 km northwest of the Black Dog Deposit.
Like Hurricane, the Thunderstruck target was immediately upgraded to high-priority due to the strong geochemistry returned from the high-grade samples. The area contained multiple quartz calcite veins of cm scale that spread over an area of hundreds of meters. Iron carbonate weathering and gossanous patches were visible through the deposited glacial moraine. The veins showed polymetallic signatures high in elements expected in epithermal environments such as Pretium’s high-grade Brucejack deposit.
Thunderstruck Highlights:
- Grab sample # B0026845 assayed 7,013 g/t silver, 12.7 g/t gold, 3.9% zinc, 2.4% lead, and 0.2% copper;
- Another grab sample taken 85m away also had very impressive silver results with 1,017 g/t silver, as well as significant gold, copper, lead and zinc;
- Historic work from this area in 1983 suggest it was entirely under ice at that time;
- The nearby Argentina vein 1,800 m northwest sampled 555 g/t silver;
- The nearby Heather vein 1,500 m southeast sampled 25 g/t gold, 332 g/t silver and 5.1% lead in 2019 and soil sampled 9.5 g/t gold and >100 g/t silver in 1983; and
- Further rock sampling to the south along the edge of the glacier, 200 m and 700 m south also returned rocks with elevated silver and gold
Vice President, Exploration, Dr Dave Webb, said that through an extensive 20-day geological mapping and sampling programme completed on the extended Rock & Roll claims this past summer, the team discovered numerous veins at or near the Thunderstruck target.
He said these veins appear to show potential for precious metal mineralisation including high-grade silver and gold, and often demonstrate elemental signatures representative of an epithermal system. They occur in a fine-grained sedimentary sequence of siltstones and calcareous sediments tentatively assigned to be Upper Stuhini Stratigraphy.
The company is still waiting for additional sampling results from its 2020 exploration programme. However, encouraged by results to date, the company is already planning a larger, more defined sampling, mapping and prospecting programme of the area for 2021. With recently unglaciated terrain, the area is mostly unexplored and has become very prospective for high-grade mineralisation.
