Barramundi tests at Longline

Junior Barramundi Gold (BAM-A) has begun a shallow, 60-hole program of core drilling at its Longline gold project in the west-central Yukon.

The work is part of an attempt to reassess the resource represented by the subcropping No. 2 vein in the Swede’s Pit area. The company plans to establish a small (20,000-tonne) bulk-sample, open-pit operation.

The Longline project hosts at least four sets of narrow, shallow-dipping, sheeted quartz veins. The veins were discovered at the head waters of Swamp Creek by placer miners in the mid-1990s. About 4,600 tonnes of mined and hand-picked quartz material reportedly yielded 3,200 oz. gold, for a recovered grade of 21.9 grams per tonne.

In 1998, Barramundi drilled four diamond drill holes in the Swede’s Pit area to test the continuity of the No. 2 vein and its associated hydrothermal alteration envelope. Results included 34.58 grams gold per tonne over 0.25 metre, 12.83 grams over 1.45 metre, 0.43 gram over 0.1 metre, and 0.26 gram over 0.17 metre. Core recovery of the quartz vein material varied from 33% to 76%.

This summer’s program will include followup geophysics and drilling of anomalies.