Promising New Quartz Outcrop Discovered
Westhaven Gold Corp.(TSX-V:WHN)has made strong exploration progress at its 17,623-hectare Shovelnose gold property within the prospective Spences Bridge Gold Belt (SBGB in British Columbia.
President and CEO, Gareth Thomas, said the goal for the 2020 drill programme is to find new gold vein zones outside of the high-grade South Zone discovery.
“Our team discovered a brand-new quartz outcrop (Franz Zone) of white to gray, opaque, colloform-banded chalcedony veins hosted in rhyolite, one kilometre northwest of the FMN target. If the Franz Zone is in fact the extension of Vein Zone 1, we will have extended the strike length of Vein Zone 1 to 3.7 kilometres. This is important because the bigger the vein system we are dealing with, the greater the potential to host significant gold mineralisation.
“As is typical with epithermal gold deposits, like Kupol and Hishikari, these large vein systems can host high-grade sections of gold mineralization as we have already demonstrated at the South Zone. This Franz outcrop is the most significant surface vein occurrence we have seen on Shovelnose and is being prioritized for drilling.
“Our technical team has done a great job vectoring in on new target areas both through drilling and prospecting. Near bedrock surface zones of anomalous gold at Alpine and Line 6 targets lead us to believe we are narrowing into a high-grade feeder zone.”
Exploration Manager, Peter Fischl, said drilling through the mid-summer has extended the strike length of the three vein zones originally defined in drilling at South Zone and previously intersected in historic drilling to the northwest at the MIK and Tower showings.
“Vein Zone 3 has now been traced in recent drilling over a strike length of 650 metres. It remains open to the northwest. Vein Zone 2 has been traced northwest towards the Tower showing, an area of veining exposed in outcrop and intersected in shallow drilling that is identical to the veining seen in recent drilling at Vein Zone 2 to the southeast (Holes SN20-72, -73, -77).
“A recent review of historic drilling at Tower dating back to 2011 has confirmed that the Tower showing represents the surficial expression of Vein Zone 2, giving the zone a strike length of 1.3 km. It remains open to the northwest, and appears to continue towards the FMN target, a northwest trending soil geochemistry anomaly (As, Mo, Sb) of 500m in length lying northwest of the Tower showing.
“Recent drilling at the MIK showing (Holes SN20-86, -88) coupled with a reinterpretation of historic deeper drilling at MIK and Tower dating back to 2012 has confirmed that Vein Zone 1 now continues through this area for a total strike length of 2.2 kilometres.
“Follow-up drilling at MIK will target shallower portions of the vein system based on the pathfinder suite of elements encountered in hole SN20-86. Vein Zone 1 remains open to the northwest and appears to continue to the FMN target. The newly discovered Franz quartz vein showing lies on strike another one kilometre to the northwest of the FMN target, suggesting the possibility that the vein system continues further to the northwest.”
