The Cheticamp Highlands of Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island will be the focus of a forthcoming base metal exploration program by Regal Goldfields (REGL-C).
The company plans to drill, in May, two of eight targets. The first target was the site of silver-lead-zinc mining at the turn of the century. Drilling there will test the extent and continuity of holes drilled by previous operators in the late 1970s; their results included 4.6 oz. silver per tonne, 0.8% lead and 19.5% zinc over two metres; 5.85 oz. silver, 6.22% lead and 0.33 zinc over 1.06 metres; and 1.4 oz. silver, 0.9% lead and 21% zinc over 0.3 metre. In addition, five holes will be drilled on a conductive zone with a coincident zinc-lead soil geochemical anomaly, which is on strike from the mineralization 300 metres south.
The second target is a coincident soil geochemical anomaly, from which the company believes several high-grade sulphide boulders found in a nearby stream valley originated.
At Regal’s Kidd Twp.,Ont. property, drilling by partner Falconbridge (FL-T) has intersected a graphitic conductor with mafic volcanic rocks and an unmineralized felsic horizon. Falco plans to drill-test another anomaly on the property this autumn.
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