An additional three holes were completed in July to conclude a 5-hole program totalling to 2,670 metres. Careful budgeting and faster than anticipated drilling allowed the Company to complete 2 further holes for an additional 850 metres over and above the original planned drill program of 3 holes totalling 1,850 metres.
The third hole of the program targeting the
Drill hole A-21-157 intersected the
The zone is characterized by abundant sulphides beds interbedded with narrow intervals of black shale. The sulphide beds are characterised by abundant grey sphalerite laminations with subordinate dull brown fine-grained interlaminated pyrite. The sphalerite-rich sulphide beds approach thicknesses of up to one metre in places. The typical 'mottled' texture is weak throughout the zone but locally is strongly-developed within sphalerite-dominant beds. The mineralized zone ends in abundant laminar to nodular bedded barite in black shale. The debris flows and limestone of the Paul River Formation were intersected at a depth of 423.00 metres and the hole was completed to a depth of 436.21 metres in the calcareous siltstones of the
A total of 110 samples including standard QA/QC samples were collected from this drill hole and submitted for analysis. The true width estimate of the
The two 'bonus' holes were drilled off the same drill pad as A-21-157; at different collar orientations and designed as infill holes in the immediate vicinity. Drill hole A-1-21-158 was drilled up-dip to a depth of 314.96 metres. Drill hole A-21-159 was drilled down-dip and completed to a depth of 532.0 metres. Logging and sampling continues on the final two holes and work is expected to be completed shortly after which the exploration crew is expected to demobilize.
2021 Drilling Program
The 2021 drill program was planned for three holes totalling approximately 2,000 metres of drilling with a primary objective of acquiring mineralized Zn-Pb-Ag drill core samples for advanced metallurgical testing. This material will be used to further investigate previous metallurgical testing of the mineralization with a focus on enhancing the recoveries and boosting concentrate grades for both zinc and lead; using state-of-the-art metallurgical testing facility owned by key strategic shareholder Tongling Non-Ferrous Metals of
Tongling had previously agreed to fully fund the drilling and metallurgical test program.
Additional exploration activity is being contemplated as budget constraints allow including a ground gravity survey and additional geostructural mapping.
The 100% owned Akie property is situated within the Kechika Trough, the southernmost area of the regionally extensive
Drilling on the Akie property by
In addition to the
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