Drills turning at Aben's Forrest Kerr

North of 60 Mining News – July 6, 2018

 

Last updated 9/25/2020 at 5:44am

Aben Resources Ltd.

The 2017 drill program at the Boundary Zone encountered rich gold and copper mineralization, including this hole which cut six meters averaging 21.5 g/t gold, 28.5 g/t silver and 3.1 percent copper.

Aben Resources Ltd. July 5 announced that an initial 5,000-meter drill program is well underway at the company's 23,000-hectare Forrest Kerr gold project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle.

The initial focus of this planned 18-hole drill program is to expand the high-grade precious metal mineralization discovered in 2017 at the Boundary North zone, located near the center of the roughly 50-kilometer (30 miles) long Forrest Kerr property.

Three holes, collared from the same drill pad, pierced a near-surface high-grade zone of gold-silver-copper mineralization, in addition to broad intercepts containing gold bearing quartz veins.

The first of these holes, FK17-04, cut 10 meters of 6.7 grams per metric ton gold, 6.4 g/t silver and 0.9 percent copper.

FK17-05, cut 122 meters averaging 1.2 g/t gold, 1.8 g/t silver and 0.21 copper, including a six-meter section averaging 21.5 g/t gold, 28.5 g/t silver and 3.1 percent copper; and FK17-06 cut 94 meters averaging 0.51 g/t gold, 1.03 g/t silver and 0.1 percent copper, including 14 meters of 2.91 g/t gold, 5.2 g/t silver and 0.6 percent copper.

British Columbia Golden Triangle map with exploration companies projects

Aben Resources Ltd.

Aben believes the 2017 discovery at Boundary zone demonstrates that this underexplored region of the Forrest Kerr property has the potential to turn up additional significant gold, silver and copper mineralization.

"Notable regional discoveries by Pretium, GT Gold, Garibaldi Resources, Snip, and others have illustrated the significant discovery upside remaining in the district and we are confident in the potential at Forrest Kerr given the newly discovered and historic high-grade mineralization there as well as the numerous untested gold-in-soil anomalies present," said Aben President and CEO Jim Pettit.

The first assay results from the 2018 program at Forrest Kerr are expected later this month.

–SHANE LASLEY

 

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