Following the 2014 VTEM airborne survey and a geological compilation work of the property, five holes were drilled in order to test the Normetal Mine Horizon. From this work, one drill hole (ie 163-15-015) has intersected a significant semi-massive sulfide horizon associated with heavy dark chlorite alteration that returned 2.23 % Cu, 0.11% Zn, 8.30 g/t Ag and 0.20 g/t Au over 1.0 meter. This mineralization is hosted within a stratabound unit of tuffeceous material located between a unit of rhyolite and a unit of andesite of the NMH at the same stratigraphic position of the former producer Normetal Mine (historical lifetime production of 10.1 MT @ 2.15% Cu, 5.12% Zn, 0.55 g/t Au and 45.25 g/t Ag). Moreover, this intersect is associated with a VTEM anomaly identified last year by airborne survey over more than 300 meters in strike length. Down hole geophysics survey (Pulse EM) in this hole has detected an EM conductor associated directly to this intercept that confirmed the airborne anomaly and open up new promising ground for additional work.
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