More drilling at Footwall

Vancouver — Junior Aurora Platinum (ARP-V) has resumed drilling on the promising Footwall copper-nickel-platinum-palladium property near Sudbury, Ont.

The 2,700-metre program is testing the immediate footwall and downdip extensions of three deposits — Falconbridge, Falconbridge East and Cryderman — for contact-type and footwall-breccia mineralization. Of particular interest are down-hole geophysical conductors identified in three deep holes drilled last year in the Falconbridge and Falconbridge East mine areas.

Also to be tested in the western portion of the property, site of an intrusion contact between Inco‘s (N-T) Garson mine and the Falconbridge mine. Historical drilling intersected several copper-platinum-palladium veins in the eastern extension of the Garson fault, which is an important ore-controlling structure at the Garson mine.

The latest round of drilling is slated for completion in April.

Aurora can earn a 60% interest in the property from Falconbridge (FL-T) by spending $6 million over three years.