Hawkmoon Resources (CSE:HM) Corp. has announced the start of its 2021 summer exploration program on the Romeo Gold project, located approximately 200 kilometres (km) northeast of the city of Val-d’Or, in Québec.
The Vancouver, British Columbia-based exploration company noted that access to the property is “excellent” by a two-hour drive on well-maintained government roads east of the town of Lebel-sur-Quévillon. The road to Romeo also crosses Hawkmoon’s Wilson property, which will get attention once the work on Romeo is complete, said the company.
The program will focus on the area where Hawkmoon discovered a series of five parallel shear zones in August last year. The southernmost of the shears, the 40-foot shear, appears to be a possible surficial expression of the regional scale Bank Fault identified by Osisko Mining (TSX:OR.WT) on its neighbouring Windfall property.
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Hawkmoon said it is focusing on the area between the 40-foot shear and the property boundary to the south. The bedrock geology is favourable, being composed of basaltic volcanic rocks and gabbro intrusives. These rocks have been moderately to strongly sheared locally into a chlorite schist. The program will include outcrop clearing, trenching, and sampling in the prospective area on the Romeo property.
In a statement, Hawkmoon President Branden Haynes said: “We are all excited to start our extensive summer exploration work program on our Quebec gold projects.”
“Hawkmoon decided to commence such work at the Romeo Property, as the shears discovered last summer are promising. After completing the Program, Hawkmoon intends to complete a surface program and drill 5,000-metres at Wilson,” he added.
Hawkmoon is set on unlocking the potential of undervalued projects in Quebec’s Abitibi Region, an area that has housed more than 100 mines and produced in excess of 170 million ounces of gold. Two of Hawkmoon’s projects are in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, while the third project is situated in the Belleterre Gold Camp southwest of Val-d’Or.
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