A preliminary program of three diamond drill holes totalling 717 metres has been completed on the Windfall Lake base metal and gold project in northwestern Quebec.
Situated 90 km east of Lebel-Sur-Quvillon, the project is owned equally by Alto Minerals (ATO-V) and Noront Resources (NOT-V).
The latest hole, a stepout 70 metres northeast of the Trench zone, intersected highly altered and mineralized felsic and minor mafic volcanics.
A sulphide-rich zone corresponding with the surface Trench zone was intersected in hole 3 over a length of 27 metres, and this hole was stopped in sulphides.
Gold mineralization in the area is associated with highly altered and sheared volcanic rocks accompanied by pyrite and copper sulphide mineralization, and by quartz veining. On the Windfall Lake property, gold mineralization has been discovered along northeast-striking structural trends that host gold deposits to the southwest.
The drill program averaged up to 9 grams gold per tonne across 3 metres, with coincident geophysical anomalies trending in the favorable northeast direction. The three new holes completed a fence for 375 metres across mineralized felsic volcanics down to an approximate vertical depth of 200 metres. The sulphide mineralization, which consists mainly of pyrite with minor chalcopyrite, ranges from disseminated amounts to semi-massive and massive stringers and patches throughout the entire length of all three holes (similar to those observed in the overlying surface trenches).
Assay results will be released shortly, and, if results warrant, a second drill program will attempt to delineate the known mineralization at depth and along strike in all directions. A second program would also test additional gold and base metal targets on the Windfall Lake property that were outlined by earlier geochemical and geophysical surveys.
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