Eagle Plains dips into Dragon Lake

Junior Eagle Plains Resources (EPL-A) has begun 300 metres of diamond drilling at its Dragon Lake property in south-central Yukon, 85 km northeast of Ross River.

The property, which has already been subjected to trenching, mapping and a magnetometer survey, is being explored for skarn-replacement gold mineralization associated with Tombstone-Suite intrusives. The mineralization is stratigraphically controlled in selected replacement horizons that lie next to Cretaceous-aged granitic intrusions.

Gold mineralization is hosted in pyroxene skarn lenses that have assayed up to 12.7 grams over 1 metre and 3.54 grams over 5 metres. These lenses are enveloped by a lower-grade zone of calc-silicate hornfels and sericitized quartzite that returned 602 parts per billion gold over 19 metres. The mineralization is concentrated in a 300-metre-wide area that has been traced along strike for 600 metres. Soil sampling over this area has outlined numerous copper-gold anomalies.

The 2,000-acre property is accessible by helicopter or float-plane from Ross River or Whitehorse, or by boat along Dragon Lake.

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