Wesdome drills eight m of 6.92 g/t Au at Dubuisson
Mr. Rowland Uloth reports
WESDOME GOLD MINES LTD. - DRILLING EXPANDS NEW DUBUISSON DISCOVERY
Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. has released an update. Widely spaced, first-pass drilling continues to expand the size potential of the new Dubuisson discovery in the Val d'Or mining camp reported in Stockwatch news on Oct. 14, 2008.
George Mannard, vice-president, exploration, said: "It is exciting to find something brand new hiding under the lake in the middle of the Val d'Or mining camp. Although the discovery is still in its early days, preliminary grades look similar to what we are mining three kilometres to the west at Kiena. The structure remains open and we're all fired up."
Six 100-metre spaced two-hole sections were completed from a barge-mounted drill on Lac de Montigny before the ice set in. Highlights include:
- 4.45 grams per tonne gold over 5.1 metres;
- 6.82 grams per tonne gold over 7.7 metres;
- 6.92 grams per tonne gold over eight metres;
- 8.75 grams per tonne gold over 5.8 metres;
- 4.25 grams per tonne gold over 17.0 metres;
- 7.35 grams per tonne gold over 2.7 metres.
The purpose of the drilling was to get a grasp on the size potential of the mineralized system. It has, to date, been traced for 500 metres in an east-southeast direction and remains open. At this point, the company does not have a clear understanding of the geometry, internal continuity or true width of the gold mineralization.
Multiple zones of gold mineralization are hosted by a complex melange of diorite, feldspar porphyry and basalt encased in a broad ultramafic (komatiite) sequence and bound by deformed talc-chlorite schists. Mineralization consists of quartz-albite-tourmaline-pyrite veinlet stockworks in strongly albitized diorite or feldspar porphyry.
The drilling pattern approached the shore of the lake toward the southeast. Further, land-based drilling to determine the extent of the mineralized system is being planned. There are very few records of previous exploration having been conducted in this portion of the Val d'Or mining camp.
Drill core from the new discovery will be on display at Quebec Exploration 2008, Chateau Frontenac, Suite 124, Quebec City, Nov. 25 to 27, 2008.
Technical information in this press release was compiled and verified by Paul Arscott, PGeo, chief geologist, Kiena mine, and Marc Ducharme, PGeo, exploration geologist, in their capacity as qualified persons as per National Instrument 43-101. Assaying was done by fire assay methods at the Kiena mine assay office. In addition to internal duplicate, standards and blanks, the geology department inserts blind standards and blanks into the sample stream at a frequency of one in 20 to monitor quality control.
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