Scottie Resources Corp. (TSX-V:SCOT) has reported results from the first three holes of its 2022 drill program on the high-grade Blueberry Contact Zone in British Columbia (BC).
Most notably, the company found intercepts of 13.3 grams per ton (g/t) of gold over 12.5 meters (m), including 37.5g/t over 2.5m.
The Blueberry Contact Zone is located 2 kilometers (km) north-northeast of the company’s 100%-owned past-producing high-grade Scottie Gold Mine and 35 km north of the town of Stewart, BC, along the Granduc Road.
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"Since making the discovery of a high-grade zone on the north end of the Blueberry Contact Zone last summer, the team has been excited to expand it and test new ideas relating to the structural controls on the mineralization,” Scottie CEO Brad Rourke said in a statement.
“These first few holes reinforce the continuity of the structure and give us confidence to make larger step outs. The program is fully underway with three drills currently coring. We've already drilled over 10,000m in 53 holes this year and look forward to consistently delivering more positive drill results as they come in," he added.
Previous drilling from 2021 expanded the zone to 700m in strike and 225m in depth. Now, drilling in 2022 will test the strike of the zone up to 1.4 km and the depth in excess of 400m.
Drill holes SR22-143 to SR22-145 were designed to follow up on the 2021 Road North discovery along the Blueberry Contact Zone structure, the company said. The Road North area produced the largest hits of 2021, including intercepts of 34.6g/t gold over 11.86m and 4.43g/t gold over 10.30m.
The high-grade intercepts occur at the same andesite-siltstone contact that appears to be a primary control on the mineralization in the Blueberry Contact Zone, the company said. Additionally, mineralization at the Road North area occurs along a moderately dipping shear zone hosting chlorite-pyrrhotite-pyrite shear veins, where small grains of visible gold frequently occur.
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 450m, the company added.
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