Drilling at Sutton property returns wide intersections

A drilling program on the Marudi Mountain gold property owned by Sutton Resources (VSE) has returned a number of good intersections.

The property, in southern Guyana, was acquired last year subject to a 10% interest which reverts to the government of Guyana if the project is put into production.

The first three holes of the program were drilled 25 metres apart on the same section line at a 50-degree dip.

Hole 91-1 intersected 168 metres from 18 to 186 metres grading 2.58 grams gold per tonne. The hole included a 12-metre intersection grading 11.11 grams gold.

Hole 91-2 intersected gold mineralization from surface to a depth of 162.7 metres and averaged 3.12 grams gold.

Hole 91-3 cut 129 metres from 84 metres to 213 metres with an average grade of 4.06 grams gold. The intersection included two 9-metre sections grading 13.42 and 11.44 grams gold per tonne respectively.

The second tier of holes was drilled 50 metres east of the first section. Hole 91-4 failed to intersect the targeted iron formation, remaining entirely in country rock.

Hole 91-5 intersected 54 metres from 30 to 84 metres and averaged 3.03 grams gold. The hole had to be terminated prior to completion due to the loss of drill rods down the hole.

Sutton is awaiting the delivery of additional drill rods to the property and plans to continue drilling on the zone in September.

The current area of interest covers only a small section of a 2,000-metre-long gold in soil anomaly which ranges up to 400 metres in width. The gold mineralization is located in quartz veinlets which run perpendicular to the north-south strike of the iron formation.

Michael Kenyon, president of Sutton, said the drilling will stepout to the north toward Marudi Mountain where the largest geochemical anomaly is located. He noted that soil values within the anomaly are as high as 2.8 grams per tonne.