Montreal-based Western Pacific Mining Exploration (WPC-M) has launched a new program of exploration at its Fauro Island gold project in the Solomon Islands, east of New Guinea.
* Ballyrorio prospect — At Ballyrorio, field crews are completing a line grid to provide ground control for soil sampling, trenching and geological mapping.
Panned concentrates from three streams returned highly anomalous gold values, ranging from 2.04 to 145.3 grams per tonne. Western Pacific (Wespac) believes the gold anomaly could be several hundred metres wide and extend for several kilometres.
The current program is expected to last until mid-March.
* Hornbill prospect — Here, channel sampling from three trenches returned results ranging up to 112 grams gold (uncut) across a quartz-feldspar porphyry dyke.
Highlights include: 2.5 metres grading 24.6 gold and 15.2 grams silver (uncut) in Trench A; 3 metres of 4.23 gold and 11 grams silver in Trench B; and 2 metres of 2.09 grams gold and 8.5 grams silver in Trench C.
Because mapping suggests that the mineralized zone extends for at least 100 metres in a northwest direction, Wespac plans to dig additional trenches along strike. Results to date suggest the presence of higher-grade material (8 to 15 grams gold per tonne) along parallel, northwesterly-striking structures.
* Meriguna prospect — Trench samples over the breccia zone at Meriguna assayed: 3.95 grams gold over 5 metres; 8.7 grams over 4 metres; 1.6 grams over 30 metres; 4.9 grams over 6 metres; 2.93 grams over 5 metres; and 2.3 grams over 6 metres.
Geological mapping along the streams and trenching in the highly anomalous breccia zone will comprise most of this year’s work at Meriguna.
Wespac believes that the widely distributed gold-in-soil anomalies, the high-grade float, grab and trench samples, and the high-grade intersections in drill core (22.85 and 8 grams gold per tonnne) all indicate the presence of strong mineralization on Fauro Island.
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