Tudor Gold Corp. (TSXV: TUD) has commenced Phase l of the 2022 exploration programme at its flagship property, Treaty Creek, located in the heart of the Golden Triangle of Northwestern British Columbia.
The fully funded Programme consists of a 30,000 m diamond drilling campaign that has been developed to systematically test the extension of the Goldstorm Deposit well beyond the limits that were outlined in the 2021 Mineral Resource Estimate
Tudor Gold reported a Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource of 19.41 million ounces of AuEq grading 0.74 g/t AuEq and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 7.9 million ounces of AuEq grading 0.79 g/t AuEq) in 2021.
In addition, exploration diamond drilling will focus on the Calm Before the Storm (CBS) and Eureka zones (EZ).
The 2021 exploration drilling campaign successfully infilled key areas of Tudor’s 2021 Mineral Resource with reported gold and copper grades that were exceptionally higher than grades reported in the 2021 Mineral Resource Estimate.
Tudor’s 2022 exploration programme will test the Goldstorm System for an additional 500 metres along the northeastern axis. The primary goal of the Programme is to expand the size of the initial mineral resource and to define the limits of the mineralised domains.
Three drill rigs have commenced drilling the northern aspects of the Goldstorm Deposit as step-out exploration holes. Additionally, one rig has begun drilling at CBS as follow-up on last years’ newly discovered gold-silver system, located 2.5 km northeast of the Goldstorm Deposit. Crews are currently mobilising an additional four drill rigs to site to ‘fast-track’ the exploration and potential continued expansion of the Goldstorm Deposit.
“This year we have planned a very robust drilling campaign that will focus 80% of the exploration as continued step-out drilling from the latest impressive 2021 results obtained from holes GS-21-113, GS-21-113-W1, GS-21-113-W2 and GS-21-119 in the northern sector of the Goldstorm Deposit,” President and CEO, Ken Konkin, said.
“The remaining 20% of planned holes will include Goldstorm resource definition drilling as well as exploration drill holes for CBS and Eureka gold systems. Our exceptional start-up team as done a superb job safely dealing with challenging conditions to mobilise drills and supplies utilizing the Brucejack Lake road to access our winter-haul route.
“We wish to thank Newcrest Mining for their assistance in allowing us to share the Brucejack access road so we could complete the mobilisation of our equipment in a timely and cost-efficient manner.
“Our Phase ll plans will be contingent to the success of the Phase l drilling; we plan to concentrate our drilling in the areas that contain the strongest mineralisation throughout the 300H, CS-600 and DS-5 domains. We also plan to test the hypothesis that the Eureka Zone may be the continuation of the DS-5 domain.
“The Goldstorm Deposit continues to amaze our geological team as it remains open in all directions and to depth with some of the most impressive and strongest gold-copper mineralisation obtained late last year within the northern areas of this deposit.”
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