New Drilling Campaign Aimed At Extending New FMN Zone
Westhaven Gold Corp. (TSXV:WHN)has resumed drilling at its 17,623 hectare Shovelnose gold property in the prospective Spences Bridge Gold Belt (SBGB) in British Columbia.
Initial drilling is focused on extending the gold-silver mineralisation encountered at the newly discovered FMN zone.
The FMN zone was the third zone discovered in 2020 which reported 19.85m of 2.62 g/t Au and 139.75 g/t Ag, including 5.50m of 4.58 g/t Au and 267.35 g/t Ag. Within the 5.50m the company recorded the third highest silver intercept drilled to date on this property (0.58m of 581 g/t Silver).
Drilling will also focus on extending the strike of the Franz Zone which reported 7.78m of 14.84 g/t Au in September of 2020.
President and CEO, Gareth Thomas, said a second drill rig will be deployed in Quarter One to focus on step-out and infill drilling at the South Zone.
A regional exploration programme will target features delineated by work performed in 2020 and prior years. Activities will include drilling, prospecting, mapping, stream and soil sampling.
Meanwhile, assays are pending for 19 completed drill holes in 2020 and will be released once received and interpreted by the company.
“The goal at the beginning of 2020 was to step outside of the South Zone and discover additional mineralized zones,” Mr Thomas said.
“Our exploration and operations team was successful in achieving that goal with the discovery of three new zones of high-grade gold and silver mineralisation. All three of these zones remain open and will be the focus of initial drilling in 2021.”
