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Sona Resources Corp. is a junior resource company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, specializing in gold exploration, development and mining in North America. The Sona board of directors and management have decades of combined experience in the mineral exploration and mining industry, and in managing and financing junior exploration companies.
Since its inception in 1990, Sona has engaged in exploration activities at its 100 percent owned mineral properties in Canada and the United States, as well as small-scale gold production at its flagship property, the Blackdome Gold Mine, in south-central B.C. Since 2002 at its Elizabeth Gold Property, 220 kilometres north of Vancouver, Sona has completed four diamond drill programs that have outlined a 206,000-ounce inferred gold resource.
Sona Resources drills 70.6g/t gold over 0.5m at Elizabeth Gold in BC
Sona Resources (TSX-V:SYS, FSX:QS7) released on Tuesday its second round of assay results from the recently completed drill program at its Elizabeth Gold property, located in the Lillooet Mining District of southern British Columbia, drilling 70.6g/t of gold over 0.5 metres.
Highlights from the diamond drilling include hole E10-58, which intersected 54.7g/t Au over 0.3 metres, hole E10-59, which returned 31.2g/t Au over 0.8 metres, hole E10-60, which intersected 9.3g/t Au over 1.0 metre, and hole E10-65, which returned 6.5g/t Au over 6.7 metres, including a 0.5 metre interval that assayed 70.6g/t Au.
The results hail from a 3,000-metre surface diamond drilling program on the Southwest Vein, which began in early August. The program was expanded though, and 25 holes were completed, for a total of 3,779 metres.
By September 26, 22 drill holes targeted the periphery of the known northeast-trending Southwest Zone gold mineralization, both to the northeast and to the southwest, and three holes targeted the No. 9 Vein.
All assay results returned to date are from the Southwest Vein, with some results still pending.
"The drill program is confirming the continuity of the gold mineralization and is expanding the mineralization outward," said president and CEO John P. Thompson.
Since its inception in 1990, Sona has engaged in exploration activities at its mineral
properties in Canada and the United States, as well as small-scale gold production at its flagship property, the Blackdome mine, in south-central British Columbia.
At Blackdome, the indicated mineral resources are estimated to be 144,500 tonnes, grading 11.29g Au/t and containing 52,600 ounces of gold, and the inferred resource is estimated to be 90,600 tonnes, grading 8.79g Au/t.
At its Elizabeth Gold Property, 30 kilometres south of the Blackdome Gold Mine, Sona has outlined an inferred gold resource of 522,900 tonnes, grading 12.3g Au/t and containing 206,100 ounces of gold.
The company is aiming to bring the fully permitted Blackdome mill back into production over the next three years at a rate of 200 tonnes per day, with feed from the former-producing Blackdome Gold Mine and the Elizabeth Gold Property.
Sona also holds a 100% interest in two other promising properties: The Callaghan Project is located in Nevada, within 80 kilometres of several producing mines, and is underlain by the Roberts Mountain Thrust, a major structural setting for gold deposits. The Montgolfier Project is located in Quebec, 40 kilometres east of the multi-million ounce Casa Berardi Mine gold deposit.
