RE:RE:Huge News... No one noticed...Thank you for posting this. Can you tell me where you found the 2002 drilling results? Those are the only ones I couldn't seem to find. I've included the only reference I could find below
It appears that the mineralization is associated with the proximity of the glover stock to the tuff unit as the tuff unit was permeable and acted as a mineralized fluid path. The new cross sections at 421 zone appear to confirm this as well. This is the main basis for drilling to the north. Given the plunge of the tuff unit, mineralization to the north will likely be at lower elevations as well. I'd like to know what happens if and where the glover stock actually intersects the tuff.
Why hasn't someone just start doing 20m stepouts of LD2002-9? The grades are definitely there, likely even at 2002 prices. Are the zones that small and hard to follow?
From the BC mineral files summary at https://minfile.gov.bc.ca/Summary.aspx?minfilno=093N++009
Alpha Gold Corp. drilled 19 NQ bore holes totalling 7790 metres between July 8 and September 6, 2002 on the CCS. This work determined that gold-copper mineralization is associated with skarn developed in calcareous mafic tuffaceous rocks and limestone proximal to the Eocene Glover Stock, and to high-sulphide replacement bodies forming at, or near, a limestone-siliceous phyllite contact. The skarn has a strike length exceeding 500 metres and has been drill tested to depths exceeding 400 metres subsurface. It varies in width from 3 metres to greater than 110 metres. Gold-copper mineralized zones occur both along the limbs, and in the core, of a north-northwest-plunging synform-antiform couple. This structure has been drill tested over a strike length exceeding 300 metres (Press Release, Alpha Gold Corp., September 6, 2002). Significant drill results from the first two drillholes of 2002 are reported. Drillhole DDH 2-01 intersected a 97-metre wide andradite-chlorite skarn body containing several mineralized zones. The highest-grade mineralization is associated with a chalcopyrite-magnetite-chlorite retrograde skarn. Over a drill indicated width of 18.75 metres (531.25 metres to 550.0 metres), 0.95 grams per tonne gold, 17.1 grams per tonne silver and 1.62 per cent copper was cored. Drillhole DDH 2-02 intersected a 114 metre wide skarn body containing a 1-metre (drill indicated width, 510.5 to 511.5 metres) massive sulphide replacement zone developed at the contact between a retrograde skarn zone and limestone and assayed 61.3 grams per tonne gold, 181 grams per tonne silver and 0.87 per cent copper (Press Release, Alpha Gold Corp., September 6, 2002).
The ninth drillhole in the 2002 exploration program intersected 9.7 metres grading 36.7 grams per tonne gold, 182.64 grams per tonne silver and 2.89 per cent copper. The 2002 exploration program demonstrated that significant copper-gold mineralization zones occur within skarn assemblages and that grade increases with depth. Exceptional precious metal values are associated with massive sulphide replacement bodies near the footwall of the skarn front (Press Release, Alpha Gold Corp., October 22, 2002). "
StewartCatso wrote: Another item that no one may have noticed was the significance of historical hole LD2002-09 (which graded 15.0 m of 2.19 Cu %, 24.20 Au g/t, and 134.4 Ag g/t including 9.7m 2.89 Cu % 36.70 Au g/t 182.7) in relation to DDH19-SD-429M. It is roughly 250 meters vertical from 429M and 20ish meters south. refer to
https://sunmetals.ca/site/assets/files/3736/figures.pdf Skarn Manto Assay Highlights from Previous Drilling* Quoted drill intercepts are from historic drilling completed by Alpha Gold who owned the project at the time. There was no QA/QC program implemented on work prior to 2006. The quoted intervals have drill logs and assay certificates for verification.