Northern Crown works Mesa Galindo

Trenching and sampling are under way on the Mesa Galindo

gold-silver project in Mexico’s Sonora state.

Northern Crown Mines (VSE) is examining the bulk-tonnage

potential of several gold-silver-mineralized zones within a

10-sq.-km area of intensely altered porphyry rocks. A river

draining from the property has a long history of gold production through placer dredging, while the property itself has undergone limited silver production.

The TH-CB zone occupies an area measuring 2 km long by 350 metres wide. Chip sampling of exposed mineralization returned an average grade of 0.8 gram gold and 174 grams silver per tonne from a 150-by-50-metre area. One high-grade silver zone returned 411 grams silver over a 10-metre width.

The CD anomaly is 800 metres long and 100 metres wide, and

preliminary sampling of exposed outcrop obtained assays of 2.4 grams gold over 30 metres.

The LB zone, believed to be a possible southwestern extension of the CD structure, measures 500 metres long by 200 metres wide.

Chip sampling over a 30-by-70-metre area averaged 1.9 grams gold and 250 grams silver.

Drill targets are being delineated through geochemical and

induced-polarization surveys, with actual drilling scheduled to begin shortly.