Westhaven Gold Corp. (TSXV:WHN) has received additional positive drill results from its ongoing drill campaign at its 100% owned 17,623-hectare Shovelnose gold property in British Columbia.
“We are pleased to report the highest gold-silver intercept (857.64 gram-metres) ever drilled on the Shovelnose gold property, at the FMN Zone,” President and CEO, Gareth Thomas, said.
“Hole SN22-212 (23.03m of 37.24 g/t gold and 214.70 g/t silver) is over two kilometres from the heart of the South Zone resource.
“We now have multiple gold mineralized drill intercepts at the FMN zone over 500 metres of strike length that begin at bedrock surface in areas with minimal overburden.
“We believe the FMN zone has the potential to contribute significantly to the property wide precious metals inventory. It is not uncommon in enriched epithermal systems to discover multiple high-grade gold chutes and, given the strong nature of this system and low drill density in this area, we believe there is going to be more high-grade chutes discovered along this ~four-kilometre trend.
“In addition to the drill currently located at the FMN Zone, a second drill has been added at the Alpine Zone focused on following-up on Hole SNR21-55, which intersected 3.13 metres of 45.23 g/t gold and 195.64 g/t silver.
“Recent drilling at the Alpine Zone has encountered similar geology to what was encountered in SNR21-55, including intervals containing marcasite, adularia and ginguro.”
Peter Fischl, Exploration Manager, said drilling on the Shovelnose Gold Project started this year at FMN in order to follow-up on higher grade intersections from last year’s drilling (e.g. hole SN21-161: 9.15 g/t Au over 15.97m) and broader intervals of near-surface mineralisation (e.g. hole SN21-188: 0.76 g/t Au over 57.8m).
“This year’s drilling at FMN continues to intersect these two styles of mineralisation. Gold-bearing intervals are hosted in quartz-adularia veins comprising Vein Zone 1 and heterolithic breccias containing mineralised quartz fragments derived from Zone 1 veins.
“The breccias can form broad intervals of near surface gold mineralization such as in hole SN22-205 (1.1 g/t Au over 34.0m) and SN22-211 (1.16 g/t over 42.17m). Drilling continues to intersect higher grade intervals hosted in Vein Zone 1 as well, as seen deeper down in hole SN22-211 (9.52 g/t Au over 11.26m, including 30.25 g/t Au over 2.12m) and in SN22-212 (37.24 g/t Au over 23.03m).
“Drilling at FMN will continue on 50m spaced sections along strike towards the southeast to follow-up additional mineralisation uncovered during 2020 drilling. A geophysical program is planned for FMN later this Spring to assist in targeting Vein Zone 1 between FMN and Franz to the northwest.”
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