Banana Creek Curious that previous companies didn't push a robust drilling program at Banana Creek, especially after looking at this rock sample map below. Instead, one company just did a few desultory holes. Five of them, not very deep,(104 M average) and 3 of them wrongly positioned according to LIO. The other two hit gold. Previous historical information includes:
- 46.3 g/t gold peak value in rock sample results
- >100 samples collected at surface >1g/t gold
- 160 g/t silver, 2.1% lead, 0.33% zinc peak values in other rock sample results
- 1.6 x 0.6 kilometre hydrothermal alteration system defined by radiometric data
- 750 x 500 metre gold in soil anomaly
- 6 individual mineralised lodes identified in previous surface work
- 19.5 g/t gold peak value in previous reconnaissance drilling
All this would warrent a serious drlling./trenching program one would think. You have to wonder why Golden Rim went searching for golder pastures when they had this prospect to explore. Glad they did.
Figure 2: Banana Creek Rock Chip Samples with samples >5g/t labelled (background = shaded terrain model). (samples rounded to 1 decimal place)