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Wallbridge intersects more high-grade gold at Lower Tabasco Zone

Oct 19, 2020


More drills and more high grade at Fenelon. Wallbridge Mining Company Limited is reporting the first assay results from an ongoing 15-40 metre spaced infill drilling program to better define the high-grade core of the Lower Tabasco zone on its 100%-owned Fenelon Gold Property in Quebec

“Given the expected variability of this style of high-grade gold mineralization, the degree of consistency in terms of style of mineralization and grade distribution shown by these two intersections 25 metres apart could hardly be better,” said Attila Péntek, Vice President Exploration of Wallbridge.

“Our aggressive, 50 to 100-metre spaced step-out drilling has been successful in expanding the footprint and size potential of the Fenelon Gold System. In order to deliver a robust maiden resource estimate, we are now increasingly doing more in-fill drilling at much tighter, 15 to 40-metre drill spacing to confirm continuity and grade. The visual results of the five wedge cuts completed around hole FA-19-086, and today’s assays from the first wedge cut have demonstrated excellent continuity in Tabasco’s high-grade domain and we are now continuing in-fill drilling in other parts of the Tabasco and Cayenne zones. This tighter spaced drilling has also led to the initial modelling of the Jeremie Fault which is now recognized as an important structural control for gold deposition in the Fenelon Gold System.”

The results include: 

9.06 g/t Au (8.82 g/t Au Cut) over 40.05 metres, including 4.74 g/t Au over 7.20 metres and 16.33 g/t Au (15.84 g/t Au Cut) over 19.85 metreswhich further includes 38.67 g/t Au (37.45 g/t Au Cut) over 7.90 metres.

2020 Drilling Program Update

To September 30, 2020, approximately 75,000 metres of the planned fully-funded 100,000-metre 2020 drilling program have been completed. Currently, five of six drill rigs are focusing on expanding the Tabasco-Cayenne-Area 51 mineralization on the original Fenelon Gold Property, carrying out a combination of 50-100-metre step-outs and tighter-spaced in-fill drilling. The sixth drill rig is actively exploring the connection of the Tabasco-Cayenne-Area 51 gold system to the Ripley-Reaper area and the Sunday Lake Deformation Zone. Consideration has been given to increasing the scope and size of the planned 2020 and 2021 drilling programs to be able to fully assess the ultimate size potential of this rapidly growing gold system (see Wallbridge Press Release dated Oct 13, 2020).



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