Hawkmoon Resources (CSE:HM) Corp said it has begun drilling on its 2,449-hectare Lava gold property in Québec.
The company noted the 10-hole, 1000-metre (m) drill program will target the northeast trending Lavallée Shear Zone (LSZ) over a 400m horizontal distance down to a maximum vertical depth 100m.
“We are very pleased to have started a drill program on the Lava project within only two months of completing the drilling at our flagship Wilson project,” Hawkmoon Resources (CSE:HM) president Branden Haynes said in a statement.
READ: Hawkmoon gains positive gold results from the summer drill program on its Wilson project in Québec
As well, Hawkmoon said it has hired a geophysical consultant to complete 2-D modelling of the 2007 induced polarization and resistivity data, after three holes drilled that year at the LSZ intersected an interval of 0.6 grams per tonne (g/t) gold over 11.4m from 8.6m while the other two holes missed the zone completely.
It added that this interpretation work has precisely defined a chargeability zone that appears to correspond to the downward extent of the LSZ on surface.
The company said the current drill program will test this chargeability zone for gold mineralization at regular intervals along the trend of the LSZ.
The Lava property is located to the west of the Belleterre gold mining camp and its greenstone belt and is underlain by tonalite that might host potential orogenic gold‐type mineralization, according to the company.
Hawkmoon Resources (CSE:HM) 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.
The company currently has three exploration-stage properties in the region: Wilson, Romeo, and Lava.
Contact Sean at sean@proactiveinvestors.com