Freewest finds

Surface drift prospecting by Freewest Resources Canada (FWR-V) has turned up angular boulders with high gold grades at the Smoke Lake property in the Hemlo area of north-central Ontario.

Smoke Lake, a 21-sq.-km property about 30 km northwest of the Hemlo gold mines, is underlain by Archean-age sedimentary rocks which are intruded by the Beggs Lake granodiorite stock. The boulders, which are also granodiorite to syenodiorite in composition, were found 200-500 metres south of the intrusion, down-ice from it.

The boulders are quartz-veined and altered with chlorite, hematite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and carbonates. They carried gold grades ranging from 14.6 grams up to 312.9 grams per tonne.

Freewest plans to carry out induced-polarization and soil surveys. Linecutting for the surveys should begin shortly.

Freewest has also returned to the Clarence Stream gold property in southwestern New Brunswick, where it will be drilling extensions of the AD and MW gold prospects. Drilling on MW earlier in the field season returned grades of 11.8 grams gold per tonne over a 15.5-metre intersection and 9 grams per tonne over 7 metres. Holes on AD returned 13.3 grams over 4.5 metres and 17.8 grams over 4 metres.