Sassy Resources Corporation (CSE:SASY) (OTCQB:SSYRF) (FRA:4E7) said that crews have been mobilized for the start of its 2021 drilling program at the Westmore gold and silver discovery in British Columbia.
The summer drill is a follow-up to last year’s first-ever series of relatively shallow drill holes, which confirmed widespread surface mineralization in quartz vein swarms.
Sassy will continue to examine a new grassroots discovery in Northwest BCs Eskay Camp.
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An exploration crew is also preparing for a busy summer along the More Creek Corridor and Hanging Valley areas, where upcoming results from a recently completed VTEMä Survey will serve as an important guide.
"This is an exciting time for Sassy as we carry out fully-funded exploration campaigns in Canada's two most exciting gold camps right now, Eskay and Newfoundland,” company CEO Mark Scott, said in the announcement.
He went on to say: “Armed with the data gathered during the 2020 field season and our recently-completed Foremore VTEMä Survey, we now know the Westmore Intrusive to be much larger than originally thought and coeval with some of the significant economic deposits in the region. We look forward to following up this year on the extensive high-grade gold identified at surface, the very encouraging 2020 preliminary drilling at Westmore and the VTEMä results we're confident will generate a number of new targets for follow-up across the Foremore property."
Highlights from the program include a Phase I diamond drill focusing on the Westmore Discovery Zone first identified during 2020 surface sampling.
According to Sassy, the 2019-2020 surface sampling at Westmore produced 860 surface samples with an average grade of 2.78 grams per ton (g/t) gold, 145 or 17% of these samples were equal to or greater than 1 g/t.
The top 20 surface samples from Westmore averaged 74.7 g/t gold and 574.7 g/t silver.
Phase II of the diamond drilling will be guided by the 1,687 line-kilometer airborne VTEMä Survey results from earlier this year. Preliminary interpretation of the data generated by this high-resolution, deep penetrating survey is ongoing.
The company will also test several gold and silver plus base metal occurrences identified by Sassy in the More Creek Corridor, and the Hanging Valley area on the east side of the Foremore property.
Geological mapping and prospecting will continue at Westmore to define local controls to the gold-silver mineralization identified in 2020 and to define other gold-silver-rich areas within the Westmore Intrusive.
In addition to the commencement of the summer drill program, Sassy Resources has also launched a new website, featuring company information, photo galleries, videos, a new corporate presentation and detailed project-by-project descriptions of the company's holdings in Newfoundland and the Eskay Camp.
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