Brigadier explores in Hearst Twp.

An old prospect on a splay of northeastern Ontario’s Larder Lake Break will be stripped and sampled by newly listed Brigadier Gold (BRIG-C).

The Benson Creek property is on Highway 624, just southwest of the Southwest Arm of Larder Lake in Hearst Twp.

In the late 1930s, Korola-Larder Mines carried out surface trenching and diamond drilling, following which the property lay dormant for about 50 years. In the early 1990s, Sudbury Contact Mines (SUD-T) drilled several geophysical anomalies, only to drop its option in 1995. About a year later, Brigadier, then a private company, acquired its own option.

Several old showings were stripped using a backhoe last autumn. Channel samples of these mineralized zones in highly altered metasedimentary rocks yielded grades of up to 0.35 oz. per ton over a width of 5.6 ft.

Further stripping and sampling are planned, which Brigadier will finance through a public offering of 500,000 shares at 22 cents per share.