Northern Crown starts exploration at Mesa Galindo

Trenching and sampling are in full swing at the Mesa Galindo project in Mexico’s Sonora state.

Northern Crown Mines (VSE) is examining the bulk-tonnage potential of several zones of gold-silver mineralization within a 10 sq.-km area of intensely altered porphyry rocks. A river draining from the 800-hectare property has a long history of gold production through placer dredging, and the property itself has experienced limited historic production from high-grade silver zones.

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

The CD anomaly measures 800 metres in length and 100 metres in width. Preliminary sampling of exposed outcrop obtained assays of 2.4 grams gold over 30 metres.

The LB zone, which is possibly a southwestern extension of the CD zone, 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. Targets are being further delineated through grid-controlled geochemical and geophysical surveys, and drilling is scheduled to begin in early May.