U.S. REPORT Westpride outlines skarn mineralization on Arizona

Recent drilling on the Middlemarch property owned by West Pride Industries (VSE) has intersected skarn mineralization which the company believes could extend for hundreds of feet on the Arizona property. The skarn, encountered when drilling to intersect a breccia pipe, was traced on surface for over 1,300 ft. and may extend for over a mile according to Dan Innes, a director of the company.

Two holes intersected the MI zone. Hole MM-90-2 cut a mineralized interval from 327 ft. to 481 ft. including; 10 ft. grading 0.33% copper, 1.1% lead, 3.8% zinc and 0.69 oz. gold per ton; 15 ft. grading 0.38% copper, 1.3% lead, 2.6% zinc and 1.45 oz. gold; and 13 ft. grading 0.63% copper, 3.66% zinc, and 0.06 oz. gold.

Hole MM-90-3 intersected a mineralized interval from 257 ft. to 312 ft. including a 15-ft. interval grading 0.3% copper, 0.01% lead, 1.72% zinc and 0.08 oz. gold.

Previous soil sampling over a small area successfully identified the MI zone as well as a number of untested areas. Innes said that the company is planning an expanded sampling program to cover the entire grid.

He said that this should be followed up by drilling and noted that a rotary drilling program of the scale necessary will cost in the order of $1.5 million. The company is reviewing financing options for the drilling program and in the meantime will complete the geochemical program.

In addition to the Middlemarch property, about 85 miles south east of Tucson, Ariz., the company recently acquired the 48-claim Rattler epithermal gold property, 12 miles northeast of Wickenburg, Ariz.

Mineralization on the Rattler property consists of free gold associated with wide hematized and silicified fault systems. Innes notes that the exploration target is a large tonnage, heap leach gold system.

A small program is planned for the Rattler including mapping and geochemistry.

Innes is also excited about the company’s two newly staked properties, the Zetu and the Railway, in the Iskut North Camp near Stewart, B.C.

He notes no previous work had been done in the area and no claims had previously been staked.

Access to the claims is excellent with a road right to the middle of the claim group.

During the staking process, widespread copper mineralization with associated gold values were found on the Railway property. Immediately to the west, on the Zetu Creek property, five areas of copper-gold mineralization have been encountered over an area of about 1,000×1,500 ft.

Innes plans to initiate a program of rock and soil geochemistry, prospecting and mapping on the properties which remain free of snow until at least mid-October.