Vancouver — Aurora Platinum (ARP-V) has launched a 3,000 metre drill program at its wholly-owned Lansdowne House platinum-palladium-nickel project 180 km north-northwest of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
The program is aimed at testing the platinum-palladium rich reef hit in last year’s hole 20 (13.5 metres grading 1.4 grams combined platinum-palladium per tonne). The reef-style mineralization is associated with a distinct layered coarse-grained plagioclose-rich cumulate phase of the 20-by-10 km Landsdowne Layered Complex near the ultramafic interface. Airborne and ground geophysical surveys indicate that the reef horizon extends for 5-km along the southeast part of the intrusive complex. At least 10 holes will test this target.
Gold mineralization identified on the property will also be tested during the on going program. Shear-hosted mineralization is associated with banded quartz-ankerite-sulphide veins and stockworks, strong potassic alteration and deformation. Sulphide rich vein samples assayed up to 23.78 grams gold. Previous drilling cut gold and gold-copper mineralization grading up to 2.2 grams gold over 3 metres near the west end of the property.
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