Sacre-Coeur Minerals has commenced the next phase of its drilling programme at Million Mountain in the Puruni area concession in North-Central Guyana, and is reporting that preliminary findings provide reason for optimism.
According to a press release from the company on Friday, drilling is expected to be on-going at Million Mountain Zone 9 for the next several months to test existing targets as well as those developed by the ground geophysical programmes also currently underway. The press release said that drilling results in logical information sets will be reported periodically as these tests are being returned and analysed.
The company in the release said that to date six shallow inclined holes of less than 200 metres have been completed.
It said that while no assays (testing of purity of precious metals) have yet been received from this phase of core drilling, visible gold has been encountered, as well as sheared and silicified breccias (impregnated sedimentary rocks). The company said that although no conclusion can be reached from these empirical observations, it is encouraged by the nature and persistence of “mineralized veining as well as the existence of the silicified breccias.”
The drilling zone, called Zone 9, is said to be located 20 km West South West of Zone 1 on the Million Mountain concession. According to the press release, it was originally discovered in the 1980’s by small miners who developed numerous, shallow, underground and surface workings to mine for gold.
Sacre-Coeur is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of properties for the potential mining of gold, metals and diamonds in South America, initially focusing on exploration for gold on its properties in Guyana.
Canadian company pressing forward with gold exploration
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