Benchmark Metals Inc has announced drill results from the Marmot Zone located about three kilometres southeast of its flagship Lawyers gold-silver project in British Columbia, which included 30 metres (m) of 1.93 grams per tonne (g/t) gold and 70.33 g/t silver, or 2.81 g/t gold equivalent.
The company said the drill results align with “significant” surface mineralization that delineates a mineralized footprint that extends about 400m in strike length and remains open in all directions.
“The Marmot Zone continues to return significant gold and silver intercepts at-surface and at depth with a style of mineralization and alteration that is very comparable to our Cliff Creek deposit,” Benchmark Metals CEO John Williamson said in a statement.
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“These new results help demonstrate the continuity of this mineralizing system as it continues to grow in scope and scale, with the potential to add significant gold-silver ounces that would be peripheral to our current resource zones,” Williamson added.
Benchmark noted that current drilling is focused on identifying structural controls of the system together with defining at-surface material.
The company said about 5000m of the planned 12,500m of drilling has been completed to date at the Marmot Zone, which intersected “significant” intervals of alteration and mineralization that remains to be further tested along-strike, at-depth, and to-surface.
It added that as the Marmot Zone continues to evolve, initial drill results suggest there is potential to define multiple zones over multiple structures, having delivered “significant” intervals of gold-silver mineralization to date with both bulk tonnage and high-grade mineralization intercepted in multiple drill holes.
Benchmark Metals is a mineral exploration company focused on advancing and developing the substantial resource potential of the Lawyer’s gold-silver project, located in the prolific Golden Horseshoe area of northern British Columbia.
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