Virginia Gold Mines‘ (VIA-T) 2001 spring-summer prospecting campaign has turned up some encouraging copper, gold and silver values from some new showings on the Eleonore property in the James Bay area of Quebec.
The campaign tested several new copper-gold-silver showings, which Virginia believes may represent a new porphyry system. So far a series of mineralized corridors has been outlined within dioritic to tonalitic intrusions. The corridors are characterized by stockwork of veinlets mineralized in chalcopyrite and gold. Mineralization has been traced for more than 150 metres and remains open in all directions. The northernmost and southernmost corridors are separated by 600 metres.
Four partially rounded erratic blocks situated 300 metres away from the mineralized corridors returned up to 10.4% copper, 21.7 grams gold and 68 grams silver per tonne.
Channel sampling on the Main prospect returned between 0.22 and 3.21% copper, 0.072 and 1.48 grams gold, and 1.3 and 33.9 grams silver over widths up to 16 metres. A hand sample from the prospect ran 14.3% copper plus 2 gold and 75 grams silver.
Six hundred metres to the south, the Island prospect yielded 0.14% copper, 22 grams gold and 2.1 grams silver over 2 metres.
Some 95 metres southwest of the Main prospect, the South Shore prospect returned up to 0.31% copper, 0.24 grams gold and 2 grams silver over widths up to 5 metres.
Eight channels on the Peninsula prospect cut between 0.26 and 0.72% copper, up to 0.85 gram gold and 17.5 grams silver. Two hand samples returned up to 1.42% copper, 3 grams gold and 34 grams silver.
A program of ground geophysics aimed at confirming extensions of the known mineralized corridors and identifying new ones is planned for the coming winter.
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