Encouraging results from a limited drill program have prompted Endurance Gold (EDG-V) to stake an additional 20 claims totalling more than 80 sq. km surrounding its BQ polymetallic project situated 25 km west of Smithers, in northwestern B.C.
The best result from a 3-hole program targeting strong induced-polarization (IP) chargeability anomalies was a 33-metre intersection grading 0.766 gram gold per tonne, with multiple narrow high-grade zinc intercepts.
The geophysical anomalies tested by Endurance’s 526-metre program are in the immediate vicinity of anomalous gold, silver, arsenic, antimony and zinc soil geochemical values. All three holes intersected zones of stringer sulphide mineralization over variable widths, hosted within a sequence of intensely altered volcanics, equivalent volcaniclastic sediments, and inter-bedded clastic sediments.
Endurance holds an option to acquire 100% of the BQ property, which has a geochemical footprint similar to the Eskay Creek gold-silver deposit being mined in the Iskut district to the north.
Eskay Creek is the world’s richest volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit, but discoveries of similar deposits in the region have remained elusive. To aid the effort, government geologists began detailed mapping of the Eskay Rift, the geological setting for the deposit, in 2003.
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