Northern Crown drills in Mexico (April 08, 1996)

Drilling is under way on nine targets at the Mesa Galindo project in Mexico.

Northern Crown Mines (VSE) has received results from eight holes drilled on three separate bulk-tonnage targets, which returned low-grade gold values over short intervals.

Drilling is continuing at Mesa Galindo on the remaining six targets.

Northern Crown is also active at its principal project, Guadalupe de los Reyes, north of Mazatlan in Mexico’s Sierra Madre foothills. Work to date, along 1,000 metres of the 2.2-km-long Zapote-Tahonitas structure, outlined more than 5 million tonnes grading 1.5 grams gold per tonne on the Zapote zone.

Surface work, including geochemical soil sampling and rock sampling, outlined a further 1,000 metres at Tahonitas.

Northern Crown plans to begin infill drilling on the Zapote zone in early April. Drilling will then shift to the Tahonitas target.

A second drill rig will test a 1-km-long target on the Guadalupe mine structure, above an old mining area where a reported 260,000 oz. gold and 15 million oz. silver were mined by underground methods.

Historic head grades from the underground operation averaged 8.8 grams gold and 520 grams silver.

In total, Northern Crown expects to complete 10,000 metres of drilling in the planned Guadalupe program.