First Two Holes In BC Campaign Intersect Mineralisation
Sassy Resources Corporation(CSE:SASY) (FSE:4E7) has confirmed a new early-stage grassroots gold-silver discovery at the Westmore target in British Columbia with results from the first two drill holes at the company’s 100%-owned Foremore.
The two first-ever drill holes at Westmore, completed to vertical depths up to 225m, have intersected multiple gold and silver-bearing quartz veins and stockworks with individual drill core intersections returning up to 14.2 g/t Au and 86.4 g/t Ag.
Vice President of Exploration, Ian Fraser, said additional drill results are pending and the 2021 exploration season kicks off in March-April (weather permitting) with a state-of-the-art airborne geophysical survey over the Westmore discovery and surrounding area.
Mr Fraser said the abundance of mineralised veins with pockets of high-grade combined with critical pathfinder elements in drill core (consistent with features recognised on surface) and thick zones of quartz stockworks in drill core suggest the potential for a large orogenic style gold-silver deposit at Westmore.
Never previously drilled or systematically explored due to ice and snow cover that has only recently receded, Westmore’s current mineralised footprint after just five months of field work is 600m by 600m by 225m with the system open for expansion in all directions including at depth.
Additionally, 130 samples returned gold values ranging from 1 g/t Au to 157 g/t Au, and 56 samples returned silver values ranging from 30.7 g/t Ag to 1,510 g/t Ag.
“We now have over 2,000 additional data points to plan our upcoming drilling in a major follow-up to this discovery,” Mr Fraser said.
“With multiple vein systems in excess of 200m in strike, pockets of high-grade gold and silver at surface and in drill holes, and a vertical dimension that remains unknown, there is ample opportunity at Westmore to define a new gold-silver deposit in the Eskay Camp.
“We are busy compiling and interpreting surface and drilling results at Westmore,” Mr. Fraser continued. “A property wide, deep-penetrating high-resolution geophysical survey is now being planned to be carried out this spring, followed by an expanded drill programme aimed at delineating high-grade gold and silver zones within this system.”
President and CEO, Mark Scott, said it is rare to accumulate so much encouraging data, in particular well-mineralised drill intercepts, over such a short period of time from a greenfield area with no drilling history or previous systematic exploration.
“To advance Westmore as quickly as Sassy did last summer and fall during a pandemic and unusually challenging Eskay Camp weather conditions is a testament to our exploration team and sets us up for an exciting and rewarding 2021.”
