RE:RE:RE:RE:Fancamp samples 57.6 g/t Au over 0.5 m at NorthwestIf you read the news release line by line for perusal., there will be two (400-tonne bulk sample & assay results in nine drilling holes) reports on the Robidoux property.
On the Robidoux property, a 400-tonne bulk sample has been collected, following favourable metallurgical test results from an initial sample of five kilograms from the A zone vein. This initial sample, comprising quartz vein material, was sent to the URSTM (Unite de recherche et de service en technologie minerale) laboratory in Rouyn-Noranda to test for gravimetrically recoverable gold. The head grade of this sample was 31.54 g/t Au and 8.9 g/t silver. The free gold recovery was 86.1 per cent for gold and 70.3 per cent for silver.
A drilling program was also recently completed on the Robidoux property. A total of 795 metres of NQ drilling in nine drill holes was completed on Dec. 10, 2014. The program tested the A zone vein to vertical depths of 35 to 155 metres and a splay fault hosting a feeder vein to the A zone to vertical depths of 30 to 70 metres. Analytical results are expected in January, 2015. The A zone vein was intersected in all five holes drilled on the vein, with true widths estimated to vary from 10 centimetres to 0.8 metre. The four holes drilled on the splay fault feeder zone showed a complex relationship of folded and faulted veins, vein fragments, and stockworks and breccias within graphitic to silicified siltstones to mudstones locally showing cataclasite textures. Visible gold was observed in these four holes, particularly in samples showing crack and seal textures. Drilling on this structural corridor was over a strike distance of 80 metres and across widths in the order of five to 10 metres. Core recovery was poor in some intervals, particularly closer to surface. The high-grade quartz boulders reported in the news release of Oct. 22 appear to have originated from this splay fault feeder zone.