Scottie Resources Corp. (TSX-V:SCOT) said it has commenced its 2022 drill program which focuses on expanding its high-grade Blueberry Contact Zone, located 2 kilometres (km) northeast of the 100%-owned, past-producing Scottie Gold Mine located in British Columbia, Canada's Golden Triangle region.
"Our 2022 exploration is in full swing with the first drill turning at Blueberry and field crews soil sampling on the Cambria Project,” Scottie president and CEO, Brad Rourke said in a statement.
“Our planned drill program at Blueberry will test validated targets developed during the 2021 program, which have the potential to double the strike length of the Blueberry Contact Zone. Between testing new targets and following up on the successful intercepts from last season, we expect to deliver another year of consistently strong results that define a large, road-accessible, gold system in the Golden Triangle," he added.
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The company's focus is on expanding the known mineralization around the past-producing mines while advancing near mine high-grade gold targets, with the purpose of delivering a potential resource.
Historic trenching and channel sampling of the Blueberry Vein include results of 103.94 grams per ton (g/t) gold over 1.43 metres, and 203.75 g/t gold over 1.90 metres, and despite high-grade surficial samples and easy road access, it has had only limited reported drilling prior to the company's exploration work, the company noted.
The target was significantly advanced during Scottie's 2019 drill program when an interval grading 7.44 g/t gold over 34.78 metres was intersected in a new splay off zone of the main Blueberry Vein. The drill results received in 2020 and 2021, coupled with surficial mapping and sampling suggest that this splay is in fact a major N-S mineralized structure, of which the Blueberry Vein was only a secondary structure.
This zone is much wider than pursued in previous exploration models and drilling in 2021 expanded its strike length to 720 meters and its depth to 225 meters. The zone is steeply dipping, and there is no current restraint on its potential depth; the mineralization at the adjacent Scottie Gold Mine has a vertical extent greater than 450 metres, the company added.
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