Drilling to resume at Assean Lake

International Curator Resources (IC-T) plans a 5,000-metre drilling program for the Assean Lake gold property near Thompson, Man.

The holes are designed to further delineate the Hunt gold zone and to test additional targets along the 8-km strike length of the Hunt gold zone.

About 3,000 metres worth of drilling in 8 holes will target a high-grade gold-bearing ore shoot at Hunt to a depth of 350 metres.

To date, the Hunt zone has been cut by 24 holes over a strike length of 700 metres and to a depth of 150 metres. The holes returned up to 9.4 grams gold per tonne over 8.2 metres. All of the holes cut the ore shoot, which remains open at depth, and is flanked by lower grade mineralization. Another thick, auriferous zone was cut about 20 metres below the main mineralization and could represent a parallel shear zone that may host additional gold shoots.

The Hunt deposit, discovered less than a year ago, and lies at the boundary of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield.

Another 25 holes totalling 2,000 metres will follow up on reconnaissance drilling completed this summer. The holes will also test new targets along the Assean Lake deformation zone. An induced polarization survey is underway to further define drill targets in anticipation of the drilling.

Drilling will begin by the end of the week.

Gold mineralization at Assean Lake occurs in a highly altered and silicified shear zone in Archean/Proterozoic-age metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks.

International Curator can earn a 60% stake in the property from a private company by spending $1.25 million over four years.