1400m Of Northern Finland Diamond Drilling Planned
FireFox Gold Corp. (TSXV: FFOX) has commenced drilling at its 100% held Mustajärvi Gold Project in the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt (CLGB) in Northern Finland.
The drill programme is part of the 2020 northern fall-winter drill campaign that is expected to include up to 1400m of drilling to test new targets at Mustajärvi followed by approximately 400m of reconnaissance drilling at the Jeesiö Gold Project, located approximately 40km to the southeast.
FireFox has contracted local drilling company Oy Kati Ab Kalajoki to complete the programme under which drill core will be cut, logged, photographed and sampled at FireFox’s field office in Sodankylä, Finland.
Company geologists will dispatch the samples to the ALS Global laboratory in Sodankylä for sample preparation and subsequent gold assay and multielement analysis.
The Mustajärvi Project is situated approximately 17km east of the town of Kittilä in flat, glacial till-covered terrain occupying high ground that is reached via paved highway, making it easily accessible for a fall drill campaign. The project includes a Central Zone of gold mineralization defined by historic and FireFox drilling, but geophysics, gold-in-till anomalies, and FireFox step-out drilling have defined the system for more than two km along strike.
The recently launched drill programme will target structural, geochemical and geophysical targets in areas that have not seen drilling in the past. The total amount of drilling planned is between 1300m and 1400m split between three target areas.
Target area 1 is located in the western part of the license, approximately 900m southwest from the known mineralisation.
Target area 2 is located on the northern side (footwall) of the main Mustajärvi mineralisation where anomalous till values (elevated gold, tellurium, and bismuth) are closely associated with geophysical conductors parallel and in close proximity to known auriferous lodes. The alteration is interpreted to extend north into metasedimentary rocks known to host gold elsewhere in the belt.
Target area 3 occurs within a structurally complex setting in central Mustajärvi, where the main shear zone deflects, apparently influenced by crosscutting structures of various orientations. It is also coincident with a plunging Induced Polarization chargeability (IP) anomaly and gold nugget anomalies in the down-ice direction. High grade mineralisation (up to 45 g/t gold over two metres) at Mustajärvi has been associated with high sulphide intervals that may be expected to yield IP anomalies.
