Drill hole 274-24-336 cut 19.7 metres grading 1.07% copper, 0.4 gram gold per tonne and 4.5 grams silver from 216.2 metres depth, Abitibi said in a release. Drill hole 274-24-337 returned 26.9 metres at 0.06% copper, 0.01 gram gold and 48.5 grams silver from 44.5 metres down hole.
“These holes align with our objective of identifying new targets outside the main B26 deposit,” Abitibi CEO Jonathon Deluce said in the release. “We will add this target as a priority for further evaluation.”
Satellite West shows siliceous material reaching 100 metres in width that is related to volcanogenic massive sulphide activity and is a proximity indicator for a copper-gold mineralized system similar to B26, Abitibi said. It plans geophysics exploration to evaluate the area’s potential and see if the system extends farther west and northwest.
The company has drilled 13,500 metres this year and plans to drill 16,500 more metres, then…
