Tuesday, 18th March 2008 (2484 views)

Drifting work at the recently-discovered BK zone at the Bralorne gold mine in British Columbia has intersected gold mineralisation, the company behind the project has said.

Bralorne Gold Mines said the initial intersection was made 94.48 metres into the cross-cut from the Alhambra drift and since then, 53.34 metres of drifting has been completed on the BK zone structure and vein.

After 33.52 metres, the company said, the zone merged into a single quartz vein structure on the left, with a foliated stringer zone to the right.

The width of the zone in this area is 1.37 metres and face samples from the structure range from 2.8 g/t gold over the full width to 124.8 g/t gold across 1.21 metres.

Bralorne added that the advance of the drifting has so far "pretty much" followed its expectations based on the results of earlier test drilling.

Another 106 metres of drift has to be processed before the company reaches the site of drill hole DDH07-33, which returned a gold intersection of 78.1 g/t gold over 0.6 metres.

At present, Bralorne said, it is using air-powered drifting equipment manned by two and three-person crews and advancing approximately 4.57 metres a day.

The BK zone was discovered as part of a 42-hole drilling programme carried out on the back of a 2006 site assessment carried out by Beacon Hill.

 

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