Permit Grants Open Up Detailed Ground And Mechanical Work In Finland
FireFox Gold Corp. (TSXV: FFOX) (OTCQB: FFOXF) has commenced systematic mechanised exploration on its 100%-controlled Sarvi Project, which adjoins Rupert Resources’ Area 1 discovery zone in Finland.
The company’s geologists began ground geophysics during the northern winter of 2021, followed immediately by mapping and sampling earlier this summer, and they have now escalated work to include: bottom-of-till (BOT) sampling and excavator trenching at high-priority targets on the newly granted exploration permit.
President and CEO, Carl Löfberg, said the expansion of work at Sarvi comes immediately on the heels of two permit issuances by the Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency (Tukes). This level of permit allows mechanised exploration, including drilling.
The applications for exploration permits at the Sarvi and Lehto properties were made in November 2019 after preliminary interpretations of regional data and reconnaissance traverses yielded several attractive targets warranting follow-up.
The Sarvi permit encompasses 944 hectares and is accessed via all-season secondary roads from the Sodankylä – Kittilä highway.
The Lehto permit covers approximately 494 hectares and is also accessible by road. There remain several FireFox permit applications surrounding Sarvi, and new reservations farther north tie the area together into a very large holding.
“The granting of the exploration permit at Sarvi marks our fourth drill-ready project, and the team is already hard at work confirming and expanding upon several prospects,” Mr Löfberg said.
“Sarvi hosts an attractive interaction of multiple episodes of structure with favourable host rocks. We are very excited to deploy our teams with drills and excavators to investigate the several gold and arsenic anomalies we have been developing. We expect to finalize initial targets and commence core drilling at Sarvi by November.”
The Sarvi and Lehto properties are key parts of the company’s large Northern Group land package in the eastern succession of the Kittilä Suite mafic volcanic rocks. Both properties are subject to the Seuru Option agreement with Magnus Minerals and FireFox expects to vest in 100% equity under the agreement early in 2022.
In August 2020, FireFox completed a detailed unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV) magnetic survey over the Sarvi Project. Integrating these data with other regional surveys and data from the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK), FireFox interpreted several possible NW-SE trending structures intersecting E-W and NE-SE structures that are believed to be older. The youngest major event in this area may be the prolific D3 structures that appear to control much of the gold in the Central Lapland Gold Belt (CLGB), but additional work is required to confirm this.
Several gold and arsenic anomalies at Sarvi are related to the northwest trending faults. Similar structural trends have been reported by Rupert Resources across Area 1 and in particular at the Ikkari Discovery, which lies only 5km south of the tenement boundary.
FireFox cautions that proximity to a discovery or mineral resource, does not ensure that mineralization will occur on FireFox’s property, and if mineralisation does occur, that it will occur in sufficient quantity or grade that would result in an economic extraction scenario.
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