Northern Shield Resources Inc and its partner Discovery Harbour Resources Corporation announced the results of the 12 hole drill program completed at Wabassi in July. Results include the intersection of 37.75% zinc over 1.9 meters and over 95 meters of stringer copper mineralization at Anomaly E and the intersection of 16.3 gram per tonne gold in the A1 Zone. The drilling is clearly beginning to define a significant copper and zinc VMS body at Anomaly E and reinforce the potential of other targets of the Wabassi and Tempest properties to also host copper, zinc and silver mineralization. It also confirms the potential for lode gold mineralization within the greenstone belt.
Anomaly E 4 drill holes were completed at Anomaly E. Three of these holes (12WA-25, 26 & 27) were designed to test the near surface extension of the copper-zinc-silver mineralization intersected last year. The fourth hole (12WA-28) tested the down plunge continuation of the mineralization as interpreted from the modeling of ground geophysical data.
Drill-hole 12WA-27 intersected 24.95 meters averaging 4.14% zinc, 0.22% copper and 10.9 gram per tonne silver including a higher grade core of 6.08 meters grading 15.47% zinc, 0.45% copper and 15.7 gram per tonne silver which also includes a 1.9 meters intersection grading 37.75% zinc. This zone was intersected about 100 meters above drill hole 11WA-17 and indicates that the zinc rich zone becomes thicker and higher grade towards the surface. Fourteen meters down-hole from this zinc rich zone, a second zone of mineralization was intersected that included 1.1% copper and 41.3 gram per tonne silver over 3.95 meters.
Drill-hole 12WA-28 intersected over 95 meters of stringer chalcopyrite and bornite mineralization hosted within chlorite altered quartz eye rhyolites including 84.48 meters grading 0.42% copper. Such stringer-type mineralization is characteristic of the feeder systems that underlie VMS deposits. Although the true width of the stringer zone is not yet known, the presence of stringer type copper mineralization over a ninety five meter intersection is suggestive of a large feeder system. Drill hole 12WA-28 is the most easterly hole drilled to date on Anomaly E and strongly supports the geophysical model that shows the conductor extending to depth towards the northeast.
Mr Ian Bliss president & CEO of Northern Shield said that "These are very positive results. We see some spectacular high grades of zinc extending closer to surface than first anticipated. Zinc is a very poor conductor so at these sorts of grades, it will not show up on airborne or ground EM surveys and hence it is possible that the zinc extends to sub-surface. The intersection of the feeder zone not only provides significant copper mineralization but vectors us towards the anticipated center of the mineralized system. It strongly reinforces geophysical modeling, which suggests that the body extends to depth towards the northeast."
Source - Northern Shield Resources
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