Hawkmoon Resources Corp (CSE:HM) has revealed assay results for 12 drill holes from its 5,031-metre (m) summer drill program on the Wilson gold project, situated 15 kilometres (km) east of the town of Lebel-sur-Quévillon, Québec and 170 km northeast of the city of Val-d’Or.
The Vancouver-based company said all the holes intersected at least one altered and mineralized zone. HMW 21-24 was drilled west of the historical Midrim drill holes and identified a near-surface gold zone, which will be a new target for the 2022 field program on Wilson.
The holes were drilled east of the Toussaint showing and include the Midrim area. Assay results are pending for the final two holes of the program, it added.
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Hawkmoom said the holes will assist it in planning its 2022 drill program at the project, especially in the area southwest of the Midrim showing at the project.
The company noted that the two most promising holes were HMW 21-24 and HMW 21-25.
A near-surface intercept was encountered in HMW 21-24 with 10 grams per tonne (g/t) gold. This mineralized zone was discovered only 17m down hole. Hole HNW 21-25 returned 2m at 6.3 g/t gold at 109m down hole.
“These intersections appear to be an initial extension of the Midrim zone westward towards the Toussaint zone of the property,” the company said.
“This area will require additional work commencing with a surface outcrop stripping and trenching to better understand the local mineralization and geological setting.”
Mineralization setting and style
Hawkmood said the Toussaint and Midrim showings at Wilson are both situated where a volcanic tuff contacts a gabbro intrusion, adding that the Midrim can involve both gabbro and diorite intrusions.
It said the most prospective areas of the property are along the contacts between volcanic tuffs and intrusions and the showings generally have a northeast-southwest strike and dip sub vertically.
Other findings of the assay results include:
- All the holes intercepted Toussaint or Midrim mineralization styles, which are nearly identical;
- The showings are generally a beige to pale grey coloured volcanic tuff which has been strongly foliated, sheared, fractured and altered;
- Mineralization at the showings is associated with strong silica, sericite and calcite alteration;
- Ankerite and chlorite alteration are present to a lesser degree;
- The mineralization often displays a striped appearance due to abundant parallel laminations;
- Pyrite is the dominant sulphide mineral;
- Chalcopyrite is observed to a lesser degree with visible gold being present locally;
- Quartz veins, as well as quartz veinlets, occupy a significant portion of the mineralization;
- The veins contain sulphide minerals and are orientated parallel or subparallel to the foliation.
"We are very pleased with these excellent values from our summer 2021 drill program on Wilson,” Hawkmoon president Branden Haynes said in a statement.
“Discovering an initial western extension of the Midrim is particularly positive for Hawkmoon."
Hawkmoon is focused entirely on its three Quebec gold projects. Two of these projects are in one of the world’s largest gold deposits, the Abitibi Greenstone Belt.
Both gold projects are accessed by government-maintained roads and are close to each other east of the town of Lebel sur Quévillon.
The third project is situated in the Belleterre Gold Camp southwest of Val-d’Or.
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