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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' Surface Chip Samples At Elizabeth Deposit in BC Average 162.2 g/t Gold
Gold exploration company Sona Resources (TSX-V:SYS, Frankfurt:QS7) has reported that surface chip samples at the West Vein at its Elizabeth Gold Deposit Property in British Columbia averaged 162.2 g/t gold.
During its 2010 exploration program, Sona collected 10 chip and 10 grab surface samples at the West Vein.
Assay values for the chip samples ranged from trace to 675.2 g/t gold over a width of about 0.2m, with 64.3 g/t gold over a sometimes larger width of up to 1.2 metres. The average grade and width of the chip samples were 162.2 g/t gold and 0.35m, respectively.
The grab samples had grades of up to 160.1 g/t gold, with an average of 52.9 g/t gold over the strike length.
Sona also did some chip sampling underground the West vein. The samples showed values of up to a whopping 1,401g/t gold and averaging 10.2g/t gold over a width of 0.72 m.
The company also reported assay results for the Southwest Vein at the same deposit; five grab samples around the Southwest Vein returned assay values from 0.1 g/t to 11.2 g/t gold.
In addition, three holes were drilled at the Southwest vein, targeting an area along a 70m strike length at a depth averaging about 150 metres, to trace out its northeasterly extension.
The drill results included 0.3 g/t gold at 6.23m from hole E10-73; 0.5 g/t gold at 2.05m from hole E10-74; and 1.4 g/t gold at 2.49m from hole E10-75.
As a result of the company's 2010 exploration activities at the Elizabeth deposit, the Southwest Vein strike length has now been traced over about 400 m.
The 2010 drilling also extended the gold mineralization at the southwestern end of the vein with drill holes E10-65, E10-67 and E10-69, which assayed 6.5 g/t gold over 6.70 m, 96.4 g/t gold over 2.50m, and 85.4 g/t gold over 4.03m, respectively.
