Preliminary diamond drilling at the Swan property in north-central British Columbia has returned sniffs of lead-silver-zinc mineralization.
In a 783-metre program, Stratabound Minerals (SB-A) tested a highly oxidized, strongly faulted sequence of shallow to moderately dipping sedimentary rocks in the southeastern portion of the 5,900-ha property. Six holes were drilled from four widely spaced sites in areas marked by lead-zinc-silver showings and soil anomalies.
Holes 1 and 2 tested an area where surface trenching yielded 19.7 ft.
averaging 12.6% zinc and 1% lead, as well as 1.1 oz. silver per tonne. No significant mineralization was encountered in either hole. Low core angles, with respect to bedding and contacts, led Stratabound to believe the mineralization dips away from the holes at a shallow angle.
A lead-zinc-silver soil anomaly was tested by holes 4, 5 and 6. The holes intersected several anomalous intervals of highly weathered mineralization, including a 16.8-metre section in hole 4, averaging 0.77% zinc (including a 2.1-metre interval grading 3.45% zinc and 0.45% lead, plus a 1.5-metre interval grading 2.06% zinc, 0.58% lead and 0.41 oz. silver).
A further 525 metres to the southwest, hole 3 intersected an unoxidized 3.2-metre interval grading 6.36% lead and 1.14 oz. silver. Holes 3 to 6 resulted in low core recovery.
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