お知らせ • Jan 13
West Mining Corp. Receives Final Assay Results for 6 Diamond Drill Holes Completed in the Initial Drilling Campaign on the Starlight Trend on Their 100% Owned Daylight Property in Southeastern British Columbia
West Mining Corp. has received final assay results for 6 diamond drill holes completed in the initial drilling campaign on the Starlight Trend on their 100% owned Daylight Property in southeastern British Columbia. Of the 6 holes drilled at Starlight; observed alteration, stockworking and mineralization increased with stepout holes to the southeast. The farthest southeast holes, as well as intersecting the targeted vein/stockwork zone where native gold was identified in the hangingwall vein, also discovered a new and significant zone of copper-gold mineralization below the known stockwork zone. As drill holes DL21-13 and DL21-14 are the farthest southeast on a northwest striking, steeply southwest dipping structure, the system is clearly open to the southeast where a strong magnetic low feature trends along strike for an additional 2,000 metres. Holes DL21-09 and DL21-10 were located 130 metres to the northwest and holes DL21-11 and DL21-12 were an additional 80 metres further northwest. The Starlight Trend, identified as a wide shear structure represented by a strong magnetic low feature, is located on the western side of the Daylight Property. The successful drill program tested the northwesternmost 210 metres of the historic gold zone which is exposed at surface and in numerous small-scale underground mine workings over a strike length of 2,000 metres. The Starlight veins+sulphide zone averages 25 metres true width with large discrete outlier quartz veins also exhibiting strong silica-sulphide mineralization. All six drill holes intersected the Starlight vein itself, with gold assays in the vein ranging from 1.13 g/t in hole DL21-11 to 42.61 g/t in DL21-13. This hanging wall vein has an average true width of 0.75 metres. Drill holes DL21-13 and 14 were drilled from the same collar location toward the southeast at -45o and -75o dips. Both holes intercepted the 20 to 25 metre true width zone containing quartz veining, abundant pyrite and chalcopyrite, along with minor sphalerite and occasional native gold grains. Above the veinlet zone, in the top 65 metres of the drill holes, are 10-15 metre wide moderately quartz-carbonate stockworked zones with discrete larger quartz-carbonate veins ranging from 0.52 to 1.9 metres width containing pyrite and minor chalcopyrite. The Daylight Property, hosting the Great Western Zone (see News Release dated October 12, 2021) and the Starlight Trend is part of West’s 9,000 hectare 100% owned Kena Project, consisting of the Kena, Daylight and Athabasca Properties in southeastern British Columbia, which trend along a 20 kilometre long favourable mineralized belt. Gold, silver and copper mineralization relate to orogenic gold introduction and concentration within a several kilometre long foliated, altered, zoned, porphyry and vein/shear system. A recent gold resource estimate (NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Kena Project, Bird, 2021) detailed an indicated 561,000 ounces gold and an inferred 2.77 million ounces gold at 0.25 g/t Au cutoff within an open ended portion of this robust system (see News Release dated May 11, 2021). The Daylight Property is located in a mining friendly jurisdiction and in an extremely favourable geological setting within the Golden Arc area of southeastern British Columbia. The Starlight Trend hosts the historic, early 1900s, small scale, past producing Starlight, Victoria and Daylight Mines: Starlight (BC Minfile# 082FSW174) produced 21 tonnes grading 27.8 g/t gold, 139.5 g/t silver and 0.4% copper; Daylight (BC Minfile# 082FSW175) produced 327 tonnes grading 27.0 g/t gold, 15.0 g/t silver, plus minor lead and zinc; Victoria* (BC Minfile# 082FSW173) produced 3,255 tonnes grading 1.16 g/t gold, 28.9 g/t silver and 2.6% copper. Prior diamond drilling in 2002 and 2017, consisting of 6 short holes at Starlight also intercepted the Starlight vein, returning values ranging from 1.88 g/t gold over 0.58 metres to 30.37 g/t gold over 0.28 metres and 10.96 g/t gold over 2.0 metres (BC ARIS #27240 and #37536). Additional drilling in planned to the southeast along the Starlight Trend, to follow the Starlight vein and the newly discovered, significant footwall structure containing broad widths of copper-gold porphyry-style mineralization.