Trade Winds pulls gold at Detour (February 07, 2005)

Drilling by Trade Winds Ventures (TWD-V) has intersected gold mineralization on the Detour West gold property in northeastern Ontario.

Trade Winds, which is earning a 60% interest in the property from Gowest Amalgamated Resources (gwa-v), finished a 2,400-metre program in late November 2004.

The drilling was meant to test for extensions of the M zone, to the east, in which Trade Winds is earning a half-interest from Pelangio Mines (PLG-V).

Drilling on the M zone extension on Gowest’s ground intersected multiple zones of quartz veining in basalt flows and felsic dykes. Gold grades were highly variable, though one wedged hole featured several high-grade intersections, including:

— 11.2 grams gold per tonne over 2 metres;

— 9.3 grams gold over 1 metre;

— 13 grams gold over 1 metre;

— 37.4 grams gold over 1 metre; and

— 17.8 grams gold over 1 metre.

Further assays are pending.