2016-05-03 09:41 ET - News Release
Mr. John Kontak reports
EXPLORATION DRILLING TO COMMENCE IN JUNE TARGETING STRUCTURAL INTERSECTION POTENTIAL - RED LAKE DISTRICT
West Red Lake Gold Mines Inc. will begin the summer, 2016, exploration plan for its 3,100-hectare West Red Lake project located in the Red Lake gold district, 20 kilometres west of Balmertown in Northwest Ontario, Canada.
Beginning early June, the company plans to drill approximately 10 drill holes to follow up on the recent result of 69.55 grams over 1.5 metres from RLG hole 15-24 reported on March 15, 2016. The purpose of the early-stage exploration drill program is to identify and follow east-west-trending gold zones eastward to the intersection of two regional gold-bearing structures, referred to as the structural intersection. The intersection of two regional structures creates potential for significant gold deposition in the geological folds and fractures which typically occur in association with such an intersection.
Drilling will start in the area of hole RLG 15-24, and successive drill holes will move progressively to the east over a distance of approximately 500 metres. The first four or five drill holes are planned to be drilled to the north from surface with a drill angle at 45 degrees to depths ranging from 100 metres to 250 metres below surface. The angle and attitude of the balance of the exploration drill holes may be adjusted as the geological structure is followed further to the east, and then into the intersecting structure.
The area to be explored lies within the east-west-trending regional shear structure known as the Pipestone Bay-St Paul deformation zone (PBS zone). Gold zones are hosted within a sequence of hydrothermally altered mafic volcanics with intercalated felsic volcanics and porphyries, as well as ultramafics. The gold mineralization is associated with quartz veining and increased iron sulphide mineralization.
The regional-scale PBS zone intersects with the NT zone, which crosses on to the West Red Lake project from the south boundary and trends northeast across the company property for two kilometres to where it intersects with the PBS zone. The NT zone is a large-scale alteration/deformation zone. The scale and style of the iron-carbonate alteration within the NT zone is considered to be associated with large multistage hydrothermal systems. High-grade gold mineralization in the NT zone is associated with silica/sulphide replacement of the iron-carbonate zones within altered volcanic and sedimentary rocks.
The company property is situated on the Red Lake Archean greenstone belt which hosts the high-grade gold mines of the Red Lake gold district. The PBS zone strikes east-west across the 12-kilometre length of the property and then continues east toward the town of Red Lake. A second gold-bearing regional structure, the Golden Arm structure, and associated NT zone, trend on to the property from the southwest, and trend toward and then intersect with the PBS zone approximately one kilometre east of the Rowan mine zones. Twenty kilometres to the east, a similar geologically important intersection of two regional gold-bearing structures occurs proximal to the world-class Red Lake mine and Campbell mine, providing a highly favourable geological model and illustrating the significant exploration potential for high-grade gold zones on the company's West Red Lake project.
The information presented in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Ken Guy, PGeo, a consultant to West Red Lake Gold and the qualified person for exploration at the West Red Lake project property as defined by National Instrument 43-101, standards of disclosure for mineral projects.
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