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10,000-meter program starts by testing VMS expansion targets North of 60 Mining News – May 28, 2021
The first hole of the 2021 program at Red Mountain tests a down-dip expansion target at the Dry Creek VMS deposit.
White Rock Minerals Ltd. May 24 reported the start of a planned more than 10,000-meter drill program at its Red Mountain base and precious metals project in Alaska.
The large program will include three diamond drill rigs testing for both intrusive related gold at the Last Chance prospect and expanding upon the high-grade silver-zinc-gold-lead volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization at Red Mountain.
The first of the three rigs are now turning at Dry Creek, a silver-rich VMS zinc deposit at the eastern end of the 309-square-mile (800 square kilometers) Red Mountain property.
Dry Creek and the nearby WTF deposits host 9.1 million metric tons of Australian Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (JORC) compliant inferred resource averaging 5.8% (1.17 billion pounds) zinc; 2.6% (516 million lb) lead; 0.1% (26.5 million lb) copper; 157 g/t (46.1 million oz) silver; and 0.9 g/t (260,000 oz) gold.
This year's drilling at Dry Creek will include roughly 3,800 meters of drilling in seven holes focused on testing the down-dip expansion potential of the resource with 200-meter spaced holes along the entire 1,200-meter length of the deposit.
White Rock plans to have the other two drills turning in June.
One of these rigs will follow up on the Last Chance gold discovery, where a 2020 reconnaissance drill program encountered grades as high as 24.8 g/t gold over 1.2 meters. The other will test previously undrilled VMS targets, some of which are found near Last Chance at the west end of the Red Mountain property, while others are associated with Dry Creek and WTF.
Over his more than 16 years of covering mining and mineral exploration, Shane has become renowned for his ability to report on the sector in a way that is technically sound enough to inform industry insiders while being easy to understand by a wider audience.
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