Sunvest Minerals Corp. (
TSX: V.SSS,
SRKZF,
Forum) said Wednesday it is mobilizing crews to commence a drill program on the Evening Star Property, located 16 kilometres southeast of Hawthorne, Nevada.
The Evening Star property comprises 43 claims, covering 820 acres (323 hectares) in the prolific Walker Lane Structure Zone of the west-central part of the state. The property is prospective for copper, gold, silver and lead mineralization in favourable volcanic, intrusive and limestone sedimentary host rock units.
The Evening Star property is located approximately 3.2 kilometres northeast of
Newrange Gold Corp.’s (TSX: V.NRG, Forum) recent drill activity on the Merritt zone and Merritt decline area of the Pamlico property.
In June 2017, Sunvest completed a modest drill program of 222.3 metres in two holes on the Evening Star property. Both holes intersected copper mineralization, with hole ES17-02 returning 17.5 feet (5.3 metres) averaging 0.84 g/t gold, 105.3 g/t silver, 5.09% copper, 0.09% lead, and 0.86% zinc.
The current proposed drill program will consist of 650 to 1,000 metres of diamond drilling in three to four holes, with a primary focus on an area where a single 1970 drill hole returned significant intercepts of 6.1 metres, averaging 408 grams per tonne silver (11.88 ounces per ton silver), 14.88% lead, 4.7% zinc, and 0.16% copper from a depth of 48.3 metres, and a second intercept of 18.6 metres, averaging 277.8 g/t silver (8.10 ounces per ton silver), 9.73% lead, 5.36% zinc, and 0.27% copper.
“With a better understanding of the geology and varous styles of mineralization, we are eager to commence drilling on the target discovered by the 1970 drill hole E-D-01. Sunvest’s Evening Star property represents a strategic, significant land position in the very active Pamlico mining district,” said Sunvest CEO Mike England.
More information can be found
here.
Sunvest was in the news when it announced that it had
launched the drilling program at McKinnon-Hawkins, which has an existing resource of 239,100 ounces of gold.
The Mckinnon-Hawkins gold project is located in Hawkins and Walls townships, Ontario.
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