Renforth Resources Inc (CSE:RFR, OTCQB:RFHRF) has revealed that drilling is now underway underneath the visual surface nickel, copper, cobalt and zinc successfully stripped at the Victoria West target at its Surimeau District battery metals project in Quebec.
Drilling is taking place at the eastern and the western ends of the 275 meter (m) stripped strike of the 2.2km strike, which Renforth has so far drilled within the known 5km strike at the Victoria West target.
"We took the opportunity to immediately follow up on our successful stripping program at Victoria West with a targeted drill program ahead of the holidays in the eastern and the western ends of the stripped area at Victoria West," said Nicole Brewster, CEO of Renforth in a statement
"We are drilling two areas which gave the strongest visual mineralization and XRF field results in our previously announced, recently completed channeling program. It is always a good day when the drill is turning, in this case on one of our battery metals (nickel and cobalt) and sulphide (copper and zinc) targets on our Surimeau District Property, advancing this project, endowed with critical and strategic minerals, as quickly as we can."
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At Surimeau, Renforth also noted that assay results from the beginning of the trenching/channeling at Victoria West have begun to be received and that it has contracted an EM/Mag survey to cover the entire 20km Victoria West/Colonie magnetic feature and to extend 4km to the north of Victoria West to include the Lalonde mineralized target.
Drill core sample material is also being selected for additional assaying to determine what degree of platinum group element mineralization is present.
Renforth also holds the Parbec open-pit constrained gold deposit in Malartic, Quebec
At this project, its deposit model is being updated by the company's geologists with the results from the 15,000m of drilling completed earlier this year and the firm said it had started talks with consultants to commence the process of carrying out a structural study at Parbec.
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