Cuban project returns gold values

Drilling on the Golden Hill discovery in east-central Cuba has returned gold values in both oxide and sulphide material.

Partners MacDonald Mines Exploration (ASE), Golden Hill Mining (CDN) and GeoMinera report that three holes were drilled in cross-section to test Little Golden Hill, one of four targets on the property.

The holes were collared near an earlier hole, which cut 23.1 metres of oxide material averaging 4.72 grams gold per tonne.

Hole GH-12 intersected a 34-metre interval of oxide material that ran 3.96 grams gold, and a deeper, 38-metre interval of massive sulphides that averaged 2.04 grams gold and 1.07% copper. Hole GH-13 cut a 27.4-metre-wide oxide zone averaging 5.15 grams gold and a 48.2-metre-wide sulphide zone that ran 1.78 grams gold and 1.35% copper. Finally, GH-14 intersected 25.65 metres of oxides averaging 4.42 grams gold and 37 metres of massive sulphides averaging 2.28 grams gold and 0.6% copper. The deepest sulphide intersection ended at a down-hole depth of 76.6 metres.

An electromagnetic survey over Little Golden Hill delineated a coincident anomaly more than 500 metres long and up to 100 metres wide.

Drilling will continue on Little Golden Hill, as well as on the adjacent and (as yet untested) Big Golden Hill, Three Hills and Raul’s Ridge targets.