Power-Auger Drilling Underway At Window Glass Hill
Matador Mining Limited (ASX: MZZ; OTCQX: MZZMF) has already obtained promising results from new 2021 Power-Auger drill programme at the company’s 100% owned Cape Ray Gold Project in Newfoundland, Canada.
This systematic auger drilling programme, combined with multi-element geochemistry, is a key tool that the company is using to unlock the vast exploration potential at the Project.
230 holes have already been completed in the campaign, with the first area of focus is the Window Glass Hill Granite, a known host to gold mineralisation at the Window Glass Hill (WGH) deposit and the 2020 Angus discovery.
Executive Chairman, Ian Murray, confirmed that initial visual inspection of multiple bottom-of-hole auger core samples has confirmed sulphide- bearing quartz veins and strong alteration similar to gold mineralisation in diamond drill core from the WGH deposit.
“This is a very strong start to our 2021 field season with over 230 auger holes drilled. A large portion of the Window Glass Hill Granite area has now been tested with encouraging visual results returned from bottom of hole core samples,” Mr Murray said.
“These samples still need to be assayed, with results expected during this Quarter, but the team is confident based on visual inspection alone, that several new diamond drilling targets have been identified.
“With new exploration work programmes ramping up every week, this promises to be an extremely busy period for the company on multiple fronts.”
The 2021 Power-Auger drill programme comprises both ATV- mounted and hand-held Power-Auger drills operating across the Window Glass Hill Granite (WGHG). This extensive area (two sq. km) of deformed granite hosts the WGH Deposit and the 2020 Angus discovery and already has multiple areas of interest defined from the detailed ground magnetic survey completed in 2020 and historical rock chip sampling.
There has been no systematic exploration of the WGHG away from the known deposits, and no previous exploration of the potential shear-zone hosted gold targets buried under thin till cover surrounding the margins of the WGHG.
The ATV-mounted Power-Auger rig is ideal for sampling areas where till cover is greater than one metre deep, while the Hand-held Power-Auger drill is optimised for sampling outcrop and through very shallow cover.
Mr Murray said the quality of the samples generated from both drills is superb, allowing the geologists to confidently identify veining and alteration features similar to those observed in mineralised diamond drill core samples from the WGH and Angus deposits. In areas of outcrop, the hand-held Power-Auger, which was successfully trialled last year, is proving to be highly effective.
All core samples collected will be assayed using detailed multi-element geochemistry. Twelve key pathfinder elements are being used to map basement mineralisation footprints which have been demonstrated to extend up to 100 metres away from mineralised gold deposits across the Project.
