Maple Gold reports additional assay results at Eagle Mine in Quebec
Published by Will Owen,
Editor
Global Mining Review,
Maple Gold Mines Ltd. has reported additional assay results from its 2022 drilling campaign at its 100%-controlled Eagle Mine Property located in Québec, Canada.
The new results represent complete assays from five follow-up holes for which partial results were previously reported, targeting northwest extensions of the main mine horizon and along multiple sub-parallel gold horizons. The company’s latest drilling campaign in the northern splay of the main mine horizon has returned the best intercept to-date from its 2022 program at Eagle.
Highlights:
- Drill hole EM-22-015 intersected 10.3 g/t gold over 7.8 m, including 41.1 g/t Au over 1.0 m in the North Mine Horizon.
- Further up-hole, EM-22-015 intersected 4.3 g/t Au over 3.9 m, including 6.6 g/t Au over 2.0 m, demonstrating the potential for the North Mine Horizon to be wider than what was previously interpreted.
- The EM-22-015 intercepts are located down-plunge from historical high-grade, near-surface drill results from a geologically similar hole (E-19: 19.6 g/t Au over 7.9 m, as well as 17.5 g/t Au over 5.6 m further up-hole) in an area with limited drilling that remains open further down-plunge.
- EM-22-015 has now returned seven separate intercepts over a 120 m interval starting from 142.5 m downhole.
- Assays are still pending for roughly 20% of the company’s 2022 drilling at Eagle.
Matthew Hornor, CEO of Maple Gold, comments:
“Drill results continue to support the company’s view that multiple sub-parallel gold horizons exist beyond what was historically mined at Eagle and have expanded our target areas along a broader mineralised corridor over a stratigraphic thickness that now exceeds 100 m in width.
“There is an apparent concentration of >10 g/t gold starting near surface and extending down-plunge to the EM-22-015 intercepts along the North Mine Horizon in an area with limited drilling that remains open further down-plunge. This represents just one of several compelling follow-up targets that we are excited to pursue in 2023.”
Read the article online at: https://www.globalminingreview.com/mining/10012023/maple-gold-reports-additional-assay-results-at-eagle-mine-in-quebec/
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