Kenorland Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: KLD) has made a grassroots discovery of an intrusion-related gold system during the maiden diamond drill programme at the Chebistuan Project, located in the northern Abitibi greenstone belt of Quebec.
The project is held under an exploration agreement with Newmont Corporation.
Drill Highlights
Seven shallow holes, up to 358m in length were drilled along two fences to test across a structural and magnetic corridor within the Deux Orignaux target area. Along the eastern drill fence, hole 23DODD005 intersected a mineralized porphyritic syenite intrusion over 157.20m averaging 0.41g/t Au from 84.41m to 241.61m downhole, including 20.61m at 0.97g/t Au with individual samples returning up to 7.14g/t Au over 0.31m along the northern contact zone.
The intrusion is mineralized throughout with minor disseminated pyrite and trace sphalerite associated with pervasive potassic and albite alteration (Kspar-albite-quartz-hematite-carbonate-sericite alteration assemblage). Hole 23DODD004 undercut 23DODD005, returning 21.50m at 0.40g/t Au, incl. 8.50m at 0.72g/t Au, along the southern contact with the syenite and ended in mineralization.
“The grassroots discovery of another significant gold system is a major milestone for our company and is a testament to our exploration strategy, as well as the expertise of our exploration team,” Zach Flood, President and CEO of Kenorland Minerals, said.
“Following over two years of systematic geochemical exploration, initially covering over 178,000 hectares of ground, we managed to make this discovery with a very limited initial drill program, and we believe we’ve only scratched the surface of this intrusion-related gold system. We’re very excited to see how this evolves moving forward.”
The mineralized intrusion at Deux Orignaux, defined by coincident resistivity, chargeability, and magnetic anomalies, was intersected along the regional clastic sedimentary basin – volcanic rock contact marked by Timiskaming type polymictic conglomerates.
There is strong potential to extend known mineralization to the east and at depth where the geophysical signature remains open, as well as the potential for discovering additional mineralized intrusions, interpreted from geophysics, in the immediate area surrounding the discovery.
Alkaline, intrusive-hosted disseminated sulphide gold systems represent a significant deposit type across the Abitibi greenstone belt including the Young-Davidson deposit along the Larder Lake-Cadillac fault zone, and the Duparquet deposit along the Destor-Porcupine fault zone. Many of these systems have potential for higher grade mineralization such as the Lac Bachelor-Moroy deposit, located approximately 75km to the southwest of the Deux Orignaux discovery.
Deux Orignaux Target Area
The Deux Orignaux target area was identified during property-wide systematic geochemical sampling in 2020, with subsequent infill sampling leading to an area of anomalous gold geochemistry and gold grains in glacial overburden.
The target area is spatially associated with the regional contact between a clastic sedimentary basin (Opemiska Group) and volcanic rocks along a first order basin bounding structure.
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