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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 finishes nearly half of 4,500m drill program at Elizabeth
Sona Resources Corp. (CVE:SYS) said Tuesday that it has completed nearly half of its 4,500 metre underground diamond drill program at its Elizabeth gold property, located in the Lillooet Mining District of southern British Columbia.
All 20 holes, or 1,717 metres, completed thus far targeted the West Vein gold mineralization. The program is testing an area along strike and down dip from the vein, between the Jewellery Box surface outcrop, and the Upper Adit drift, the company said.
All holes have intersected the targeted West Vein, and visible gold was noted in the core of hole E11-U84 at 91 metres, Sona added.
In 2010, 10 uncut chip samples from trenching along the Jewellery Box zone returned composite assays of 45.9 grams per tonne (g/t) of gold over an average width of 0.35 metres and a strike length of 47.7 metres.
Meanwhile, sampling from the West Vein Upper drift last year returned a composite assay from 17 uncut chip samples that averaged 68.8 g/t gold over a width of 1.0 metre, and a strike length of 24.5 metres.
Sona said the deepest holes drilled during the current campaign tested the West Vein approximately 80 metres below the West Vein underground Upper Adit drift.
The company also plans to drill test the Southwest Vein's position along strike, to the northeast of the known gold mineralization.
Of the holes drilled so far, a total of 331 samples from the first 15 holes have recently been sent in for analysis.
Since its inception in 1990, Sona has been 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 Gold Mine, in south-central British Columbia, 250 kilometres north of Vancouver.
At Blackdome, the indicated mineral resources are estimated at 52,600 ounces of gold, plus additional inferred resources. The Elizabeth property, located 30 kilometres south of Blackdome, has an inferred gold resource of 206,100 ounces of gold.
The company's goal is to bring the permitted Blackdome mill back into production over the next two years at a rate of 200 tonnes per day, with feed from the formerly producing Blackdome Gold Mine and the Elizabeth project. A preliminary economic study last year estimated a cash cost of $208 per tonne milled, or $686 per gold ounce recovered.
