Sokoman Minerals to Initiate a Short Follow-Up Drill Program Sokoman Minerals to Initiate a Short Follow-Up Drill Program at Moosehead, Central NewfoundlandSokoman Minerals to Initiate a Short Follow-Up Drill Program at Moosehead, Central Newfoundland
ST. JOHN'S, NL / ACCESSWIRE / April 22, 2020 / Sokoman Minerals Corp. (TSXV:SIC)(OTCQB:SICNF) (the "Company" or "Sokoman") today announced that it has made a strategic decision to follow-up on the recently completed Phase 5 drill program at Moosehead Gold Project with a short program to make use of the currently favourable weather conditions. The program is aimed at testing the northern extension of the lower high-grade shoot, where the Company has encountered some of its highest gold gram-metre results including MH-19-62 (7.2m @ 22.35 g/t Au) and MH-19-81 (6.4 m @17.34 g/t Au). The new holes will test, in 25 m step-outs, the northerly projection of the lower zone at about 200 m vertical depth.
The drill rig, which remained on the property after completion of the Phase 5 program, will be utilized to drill 3 to 4 holes, each to a do wn hole depth of 275-300m (~200m vertical), with a total of 800-1,000m proposed.
Tim Froude, President and CEO of Sokoman, said: "While hundreds of assays remain in the assay lab from the recently completed Phase 5 program, we see an opportunity to drill during the cold snap we are experiencing in Central Newfoundland. Sokoman will be taking additional precautions with respect to Covid-19 and maintaining social distancing during operations as required. The holes will be drilled from the east side of North Pond and should take two weeks to complete unless field conditions become unfavourable."
The Phase 5 program, initiated in February and terminated in late March, consisted of 13 drill holes totaling 3,229 metres. Seven holes were drilled from the ice on North Pond testing the extension of the upper, high-grade, shoots of the Eastern Trend. Visible gold bearing quartz veins and mineralized host rock were intersected on all four sections over core intervals ranging from less than a metre to approximately 9.5 metres (true thickness estimated at 75-90% of core intervals).
Sokoman is in the planning stage for the remainder of 2020 at Moosehead, including ground follow-up on the results of the C-horizon till program, where, although only approximately 50% of the samples have been processed, three sites with 54, 62 and 63 grains of gold have been found, against a background of less than 10 grains. The geological model is also being updated to allow for a better planning of future diamond drill programs.