Michael Kachanovsky on Brixton Metals in ResourceW Source: Resource World Magazine Newsletter
WEEKLY METALS REPORT
This was another holiday shortened week but a flurry of news was issued to start the new year off. A very significant new discovery appears to be underway in Northwestern British Columbia, as junior explorer Brixton Metals announced a high grade silver interval from early stage drilling work at its Thorn Project. The company reported a batch of drill holes that focused on epithermal veins and breccias targets. The highlight came from one drill core interval of 95 meters that averaged an astonishing 628.3 g/t silver, plus other metals. Within that interval a higher grade section of 9.25 meters averaged nearly 3000 g/t silver. The alteration started from surface, another promising factor in the discovery. This represents a bonanza drill hole and will attract a lot of attention to this story.
Several other drill holes within this target area also intersected polymetallic alteration with strong silver grades. Further drilling was completed at several vein targets along a mineralized corridor that has been identified on the property over a lateral extension of 6 kilometers. These drill holes also encountered chunky intervals of alteration, including 19.7 meters grading 1.02 g/t gold plus 35.5 g/t silver. Parallel vein structures have also been encountered.
This work has demonstrated that a robust system has been active across a large property area that has the potential to develop into a big deposit. One is reminded of the initial exploration success from ATAC Resources in the Yukon two years ago that kicked off the Yukon Gold Rush. Brixton Metals is going to follow up with a systematic program in the spring at Thorn. There are a number of intriguing elements to this story that have exciting potential, and many of the drill holes reported ended in mineralization but could not be extended due to the seasonal limitations on property access.