Partners Blackstone Resources (BZZ-A) and Glenhaven Resources (GNN-A) have renewed exploration activities at their Taiga base metal project in the Yukon.
Situated 120 km north of Dawson City, the Taiga project comprises five separate properties covering 1,468 claims in the Taiga shale basin.
Glenhaven can earn a 60% interest in the project by spending $2 million on exploration.
Drilling is already under way to test for lateral and downdip extensions to a nickel-zinc prospect discovered last year. The discovery hole, 97-8, returned 25.5 metres averaging 0.51% nickel and 0.41% zinc, including 5.3 metres grading 1.42% nickel and 0.7% zinc.
Mineralization is described as being stratigraphically controlled and associated with layered beds of barite (barium sulfate), a mineral common to hydrothermal environments. At surface, the mineralization is coincident with a nickel-zinc soil anomaly 2.5 km long by 300 metres wide.
Drilling will also test a second, 1-km-long nickel-zinc soil anomaly to the west.
In addition to drilling, the partners will carry out detailed mapping and soil sampling on each of the five properties. Most of the work will be confined to areas with soils anomalous in zinc and nickel.
A total of $1 million is budgeted for the 1998 exploration program.
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