Newly Discovered Franz Zone Continues To Excite
Westhaven Gold Corp. (TSXV:WHN) has drilled additional high-grade gold intercepts from its ongoing programme at its 17,623-hectare Shovelnose gold property in British Columbia.
The newly discovered Franz Zone is located approximately 2.8 kilometres along strike from the high-grade gold discovery at the South Zone; over half of this strike length has not been drill tested.
Highlights from Franz Zone
- SN20—108
- (37.09 – 71.17m): 34.08 metres (m) of 2.07 g/t gold (Au) and 16.50 g/t silver (Ag).
- Including: 13.10m of 4.86 g/t Au and 31.57 g/t Ag.
- Including: 2.54m of 16.88 g/t Au and 99.28 g/t Ag.
- SN20—107
- (24.50 – 32.00m): 7.50m of 1.93 g/t Au and 23.60 g/t Ag.
- Including: 4.00m of 3.15 g/t Au and 31.80 g/t Ag.
- SN20—102
- (51.10 – 54.45m): 3.35m of 5.04 g/t Au and 24.02 g/t Ag.
- Including: 1.80m of 8.06 g/t Au and 34.47 g/t Ag.
President and CEO, Gareth Thomas, said Westhaven continues to intersect high-grade gold near surface at the newly discovered Franz Zone.
“These drill intercepts are along strike to the northwest of hole SN20-101, which assayed 7.78m of 14.84 g/t gold. Drilling continues to expand the size and continuity of the newly discovered Franz Zone.
“Gold mineralisation has been traced for ~3.8km of strike length and remains open along strike. Given the property’s excellent location just off the highway, close to the city of Merritt, and with proximity to infrastructure, we can work the Shovelnose property year-round.”
Exploration Manager Peter Fischl said the drill step-outs along strike have continued to intersect significant gold mineralisation at the Franz Vein Zone. “The shallow nature of this mineralisation with minimal overburden cover is assisting greatly in the exploration of this recently discovered gold-bearing vein zone. Data from a recently completed mapping and prospecting program in the Franz Zone area will be integrated with the drilling here to advance this project further.”
