St. Genevieve drilling deep to south of Wrightbar bet

Deep drilling has resumed at Wrightbar Mines’ (ME) Bourlamaque Twp. property where St. Genevieve Resources (TSE) has the option to earn a 50% project interest by spending $1.5 million. To find a deposit similar to the one being explored five miles east in Louvicourt Twp., Que., St. Genevieve has already completed eight deep holes on the southern half of the Wrightbar property.

Spaced at 1,000 ft. centres, four of those holes intersected the Quebec-Manitou copper zone (containing 536,350 tons of grade 1.31% copper) at vertical depths of 1,500-2,300 ft.

The holes were extended to intersect the Wolverine zinc zone, 650 ft. further south at depths of 2,525- 2,950 ft.

Of the remaining holes, two intersected the Quebec-Manitou copper zone at a depth of 2,300 ft. and 1,800 ft., while another two were designed to test the Wolverine zone at a depth of 1,475-1,800 ft.

According to geological reports, the values reported from holes which intersected the copper zone include 1% and 1.5% copper over 5-15 ft. as well as 43 ft. of grade 0.45%.

“From near surface to the depths of the intersections, the zone is continuous and geochemically anomalous in copper over widths of 260-330 ft.,” the report said.

As a second 265-ft.-wide structure has been intersected 325 ft. south of the Quebec-Manitou zone at a vertical depth of 2,460-2,625 ft., St. Genevieve is drilling a 3,700-ft. hole to verify the junction of the two mineralized structures. That hole is scheduled to reach its target depth this week.

Having already spent $540,000 on the first phase of exploration, which ended in March, St. Genevieve is spending $350,000 on phase two.