Blue Star Gold Corp. (TSXV: BAU) has received promising first drill results from its 2022 exploration programme on the Ulu, Hood River and Roma projects located in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada.
Assays from the initial Flood Zone drill hole are reported herein. The company is also providing an update on additional exploration activities on its multi-prong exploration effort across its highly prospective Ulu, Hood River, and Roma projects.
Highlights:
- DD22-FLO-002 returned two significant intercepts: 15.00 grams/tonne (“g/t”) gold over 17.65 metres (m), including a 6.00 m interval of 25.74 g/t goldstarting at 115.14 m downhole, and 5.31 g/t gold over 5.70 m.
- DD22-FLO-001 has returned strong intervals of acicular arsenopyrite mineralisation from 5.36 m to 12.00 m (6.64 m core length) and from 14.70 m to 17.00 m (2.30 m core length); assays are pending.
- DD22-MIQ-001 intersected a new blind polymetallic vein in the Gnu Zone, from 95.90 m to 100.25 m (4.35 m core length); assays are pending.
- Four additional drill holes have been completed in the Gnu Zone target area with samples shipped and assays pending.
- Heli-borne-geophysics data acquisition and processing has been completed.
“Our 2022 exploration campaign has begun with impressive results returned from DD22-FLO-002, which has the highest value (grams gold x width metres) of all intercepts drilled by Blue Star,” CEO, Grant Ewing, said.
“The intercepts in FLO-002 are expected to allow the conversion of existing inferred ounces to an indicated category and expand the Flood Zone resource. Our understanding of controls on mineralisation has improved significantly over the last several months and this has contributed to better targeting at both the deposit and property scale. Several promising target areas throughout our prospective landholdings will be assessed during the current programme.”
The drilling at the Flood Zone is designed to provide additional data in areas where geological and resource modelling have data gaps and drilling at the Gnu Zone area is designed to expand the known extents of mineralised structures.
DD22-FLO-002 intersected 15.00 g/t gold over 17.65 m, and 5.30 g/t gold over 5.70 m,in a sparsely drilled area of the Flood Zone at approximately 100 m vertical depth. Both intercepts are within a structurally disrupted zone between a high Fe-Ti basalt unit and lower Fe-Ti basalt unit immediately adjacent to the sediment fold hinge. Drill hole DD22-FLO-001 tested the width of the Flood Zone in a near surface area where previous drilling ended prematurely. Core lengths of 6.64 m and 2.30 m with acicular arsenopyrite mineralisation were encountered in DD22-FLO-001; assays are pending.
Assays are pending for all holes drilled in the Gnu Zone area including: DD22-MIQ-001, an eastward step-out along and down dip of the known acicular arsenopyrite zone (it intersected a blind polymetallic vein however it did not intersect the target zone); DD22-MIQ-002, a westward step-out along the known acicular arsenopyrite trend which intersected 2.25 m of 6% acicular arsenopyrite; and DD22-MIQ-003/003A.
Other Gnu Zone drill holes completed to date include DD22-QIP-001 and DD22-QIP-002 that are evaluating the new polymetallic vein discovery (20.8 g/t Au over 8.15 m) made by Blue Star in 2021. All of these holes are being sampled or have samples at the laboratory and these assays will be released once results are received.
“The team has done an outstanding job from getting the camp running, to successfully completing the regional magnetics programme over Roma and Hood River, to delivering these initial spectacular results (FLO-002) in areas of geological uncertainty within the existing Flood Zone deposit,” Blue Star’s VP Exploration, Darren Lindsay, said.
“In addition, another polymetallic vein has been discovered while determining the extent of the 2021 vein discovery at the Gnu Zone. On top of these successes the exploration team is also very excited about implementing the detectORE system of Portable PPB Pty Ltd in our regional exploration efforts.”
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