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Hole Summaries Released Today Include:
IL22-014was located to test a frequency domain electromagnetic crossover beneath a 900 ppm copper in soils anomaly. The hole intersected a weighted average of 652 ppm copper over 27 meters, including three sections of over 1000 ppm copper. Maximum copper concentration was 0.11%.
IL22-015was located to test below a 1974 copper in soils anomaly grading >1300 ppm copper, surface rock samples grading 1373 and 4214 ppm copper, and a nickel in soils anomaly grading > 50 parts per million. The hole intersected 673 ppm copper over 37 meters including 8 meters of 0.12% copper. The combined gold, platinum and palladium concentrations over the 37 meter interval ranged from 19 to 317 ppb.
IL22-016tested both an induced polarization chargeability anomaly from a 2019 survey and a partial electromagnetic crossover from a 2006 UTEM survey. The hole intersected approximately 90 meters of elevated concentrations of copper (82 to 969 ppm), nickel (11 to 548 ppm) and cobalt (29 to 107 ppm). Combined Au+Pt+Pd concentrations ranged from 8 to 564 parts per billion over a wider section of 137.4 meters.
IL22-017was located to test below a >1300 ppm copper in soils anomaly, historical trench assays of 1373 and 4214 ppm copper and nickel in soils > 50 ppm. The hole did not explain the surface anomalies.
IL22-018was designed to test 50-75 meters beneath the massive sulphide/ magnetite zone intersected in IL22-006 drilled early in the 2022 season. This hole intercepted multiple horizons of massive sulphide and magnetite over a 30 meter length between 196.1 and 226.1 meters downhole and significantly expands the area of the massive sulfide sheet first identified by Eastfield in 2005 when 17.0 meters of massive sulfide assaying 0.34% Cu, 0.03% Co and 362 ppm Ni were drilled (05-I-03).While the massive intersections are so far dominated by pyrrhotite, pyrite and magnetite, both Eastfield and Tech-X are optimistic that this style of sulphide has potential to grade into zones with higher concentrations of copper, nickel, cobalt, gold and platinum group metals; both laterally and at depth.
Tabulated Results for the Zone of Massive Sulphide Horizons as Follows:
From (m) | To (m) | width (m) | Cu % | Ni % | Co % |
196.05 | 226.05 | 30.0 | 0.06 | 0.005 | 0.005 |
including | |||||
196.05 | 199.23 | 3.2 | 0.39 | 0.019 | 0.020 |
and including | |||||
207.00 | 208.00 | 1.0 | 0.32 | 0.024 | 0.017 |
and including | |||||
225.37 | 226.05 | 0.7 | 0.07 | 0.015 | 0.014 |
IL22-019was drilled for structural purposes. The hole confirmed that the mineralized horizon appears to have been offset by a fault and displaced to the west. The exploration model has been adjusted accordingly.
IL22-020was drilled to test a porphyry target approximately 6.5 km southeast of the massive sulphide target. The hole intersected 2.5 metres of 0.24% copper and 3.7 g/t silver in a black sulphidic mudstone.
IL22-021was drilled from the same site as IL22-020 to further test a 10-20 mv/v IP chargeability anomaly, and to test beneath surface showings of >1% copper and 665 ppb gold but wasstopped short of its planned depth.There was a section of moderate interest at 159.7m where 0.29 g/t gold was intersected over 4.5 meters.
IL22-022was directed to search for the source of a boulder sampled in 2021 that assayed 0.84% copper and approximately 1.0 g/t combined Au+Pt+Pd. Moderately elevated concentrations of copper and palladium were found to be dispersed through the full 249 meter length of the hole including 595 ppb combined Au+Pt+Pd (over 1.6 m) and 12 sample intervals (average 2.4 m length) exceeding 100 ppb palladium (maximum 227 ppb).
IL22-023was located to test the northern limit of a 2006 UTEM geophysical survey. It was stopped 149 m short of its planned depth of 250 m due to loss of access at the advent of winter conditions.
Hole IL22-07 (results previously announced) located approximately 3 kilometers northwest of hole IL22-18 encountered low grade nickel mineralization including 0.12% over 2.0 meters and 0.10% over 6.9 meters. A very large and strongly conductive zone detected in the 2021 MMT airborne (magnetotelluric) survey underlies this hole at depth suggesting that this mineralization may be leakage from a deeper massive sulphide source. In response to these and other encouraging results Tech-X has advised Eastfield that early in the 2023 season it will commission a VTEM (Versatile Time Domain Electromagnetic) helicopter borne geophysical survey.
A map showing holes completed in 2022 is attached.
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Diamond drill core was split by sawing and generally sampled in intervals less than 3 meters with sample intervals reduced where massive sulphide/magnetite horizons were intersected. Certified standards, blanks and duplicate samples were inserted into the sample stream during the sampling process. Samples were transported to
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Zymo: 8 km long copper-gold porphyry system with several 1 km scale targets, located 45 km west of
Hedgehog: copper-gold (VMS) and lode gold, located approximately 12 kilometers north of the community of Barkerville, BC. In 2021 option partner West Oak Gold Corp discovered several new soil anomalies (arsenic, zinc and copper). Further soil sampling completed in 2022 has defined a previously unknown cohesive arsenic-copper soil anomaly with sporadic soil gold values to 748 ppb. Intriguing to the potential of Hedgehog are several historic float samples including a massive sulfide boulder grading 24.3% copper and 19.6 g/t silver discovered in 1999 and five additional copper rich massive sulfide boulders with an average grade of 8.0% copper and 8.9 g/t silver discovered in 2000. In 2013, Eastfield discovered mineralization in the current area of interest where quartz veins hosted in rhyolite returned grab samples to 1.51 g/t gold and 1.37% zinc. Other companies active in the area include Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd.) who are conducting a major exploration program for gold ten kilometers to the south in and around the former operating
CR: gold, located approximately 80 km northeast of the town of
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