- West Mining (WEST) has discovered a new copper zone
- Drills 53.31 Metres of 0.51 per cent copper equivalent and 42.61 g/t gold over 0.5 metres on the starlight trend
- Of the six holes drilled at Starlight; observed alteration, stockworking and mineralization increased with stepout holes to the southeast
- The Starlight veins abd sulphide zone averages 25 metres true width with large discrete outlier quartz veins also exhibiting strong silica-sulphide mineralization
- West Mining (WEST) is up 14.29 per cent, trading at C$0.12 at 12:38 pm EST
West Mining (WEST) has received final assay results for six diamond drill holes completed in the initial drilling campaign on the Starlight Trend.
This took place on their 100 per cent owned Daylight property in southeastern British Columbia.
Of the six holes drilled at Starlight; observed alteration, stock working and mineralization increased with step-out holes to the southeast.
The farthest southeast holes, as well as intersecting the targeted vein/stockwork zone where native gold was identified in the hangingwall vein, also discovered a new and significant zone of copper-gold mineralization below the known stockwork zone.
As drill holes DL21-13 and DL21-14 are the farthest southeast on a northwest striking, steeply southwest dipping structure, the system is clearly open to the southeast where a strong magnetic low feature trends along strike for an additional 2,000 metres.
Holes DL21-09 and DL21-10 were located 130 metres to the northwest and holes DL21-11 and DL21-12 were an additional 80 metres further northwest.
The Starlight Trend, identified as a wide shear structure represented by a strong magnetic low feature, is located on the western side of the Daylight Property.
The successful drill program tested the northwesternmost 210 metres of the historic gold zone which is exposed at the surface and in numerous small-scale underground mine workings over a strike length of 2,000 metres.
The Starlight veins and sulphide zone averaged 25 metres true width with large discrete outlier quartz veins also exhibiting strong silica-sulphide mineralization.
All six drill holes intersected the Starlight vein itself, with gold assays in the vein ranging from 1.13 g/t in hole DL21-11 to 42.61 g/t in DL21-13. This hanging wall vein has an average true width of 0.75 metres.
Drill holes DL21-13 and 14 were drilled from the same collar location toward the southeast at -45o and -75o dips. Both holes intercepted the 20 to 25-metre true width zone containing quartz veining, abundant pyrite and chalcopyrite, along with minor sphalerite and occasional native gold grains.
Above the veinlet zone, in the top 65 metres of the drill holes, are 10-15 metre wide moderately quartz-carbonate stockwork zones with discrete larger quartz-carbonate veins ranging from 0.52 to 1.9 metres width containing pyrite and minor chalcopyrite.
“The discovery of a new broad zone of significant copper-gold mineralization in the footwall is tremendously exciting for the Company and endorses the robust potential of the overall Kena project,” states Nicholas Houghton, President and CEO of West Mining Corp.
A recent gold resource estimate detailed an indicated 561,000 ounces gold and an inferred 2.77 million ounces gold at 0.25 g/t Au cutoff within an open-ended portion of this robust system.
The Daylight Property is located in a mining-friendly jurisdiction and in an extremely favourable geological setting within the Golden Arc area of southeastern British Columbia.
West Mining (WEST) is up 14.29 per cent, trading at C$0.12 at 12:38 pm EST.
