A first phase of drilling is complete at the Plowman property of VenCan Gold (ME). Situated 50 km northeast of Wawa, Ont., the property lies between the former-producing Cline and Edwards gold mines.
The program tested the east-striking Cline-Edwards shear zone, where four separate gold zones were intersected.
The Quartz Vein zone strikes east-southeast and is developed in the same mafic volcanic rocks as the Edwards deposit. The mineralization consists of quartz veins with disseminated sulphide minerals, and two 0.3-metre drill intersections graded 27.4 grams and 55.2 grams gold per tonne.
The Lake Porphyry zone occurs in sheared felsic rock on the margin of a granitic pluton near the Cline mine. The zone also strikes east-southeast and appears to be an offset extension of the Cline “A” vein. A 1.8-metre intersection in the zone graded 4.4 grams gold per tonne.
The Main Fault zone is in strongly sheared rock close to the fault itself and graded 5.1 grams gold per tonne over a 0.9-metre interval. The Footwall Felsite zone graded 27.8 grams per tonne over 0.3 metre.
VenCan has a lease agreement in place with River Gold Mines (TSE), under which River will truck ore from the Edwards mine to its mill near Wawa.
Underground work is scheduled in the coming month.
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