Aur intersects stringer zone on Jonpol’s Dalquier claims

Aur Resources (TSE) recently intersected a broad zone of stringer copper mineralization while drilling for extensions of known zones, on Jonpol Explorations’ (TSE) Dalquier Twp. claims, five kilometres northeast of Amos, Que. The discovery was reported following a 3,878-metre drill program financed by Aur under an option agreement entitling it to earn a 60% project interest in return for expenditures totalling $1 million by August, 1994. According to Aur, the stringer zone was intersected at a vertical depth of 600 metres and below the Main West copper zone which hosts 2.1 million tons of grade 1.26% copper and 6.9 grams silver per tonne. The highlight was a 139-metre intersection in hole 6801-7 averaging 0.24% copper, which included several narrower high-grade intersections, one of which averaged 2.23% copper over two metres. “This mineralization is much more extensive than anything found previously in the Main West zone and may, in fact, represent an entirely new zone,” Aur says. Hole 6801-7 also intersected 1.7 metres of grade 2.83% copper, 4.28% zinc, 13.27 oz. silver and 0.01 oz. gold at a depth of 306-307.7 metres in the project’s Lower Zinc zone. Parallel to the Main West zone, the Lower Zinc contains 815,000 tonnes of grade 1.25% copper and 3.21% zinc. A stepout hole located 1,000 metres east of the known zones intersected anomalous zinc mineralization associated with widespread disseminated pyrite in strongly altered felsic volcanic rocks. Aur says the hole points to the potential for the discovery of new zones along the eastward strike extension of the mineralized horizon. Aur is currently attempting to assess the likelihood of sufficient reserves being found to sustain an open pit operation.