Cartier Resources has started the preliminary diamond drill campaign at the Diego gold project, which is located to the south-west of Chibougamau town in Quebec.
This gold project includes the Opawica-Guercheville Deformation Zone (OGDZ), a leading gold-bearing formation, which features numerous gold deposits such as Joe Mann, Bachelor, Fenton and Lac Short. Cartier includes 1700 m of drilling, eight diamond drill holes in total and targets three separate regions for gold mineralization .
Cartier’s significant drilling at the project has defined an 8.0 x 1.2 km porphyry intrusion, which has numerous gold coronas wherein 2.4 x 0.3 km is the key porphyry intrusion. The halos include the average gold grades in the order of 0.10 g/t gold and high-grade gold zones.
The company has identified fresh outcrops bearing gold to the northern part of the historic drilled region. It has received up to 4.00 g/t, 4.82 g/t and 5.25 g/t of gold from the grab samples over the region that encloses the trimmed north part of a porphyry intrusion. Drilling program was not performed in the intrusive’s northern part bearing high-grades. The company has also created 20 diamond drill targets, in which eight holes were chosen for an initial campaign and completed an aerial magnetic survey over the Diego project. It has prioritized the targets based on the favourable geochemistry, closeness to gold mineralization and the cutting of faults.
The program’s aim is to examine the three separate regions across the project. Four holes have targeted the former unexplored north of the felsic porphyry intrusive. The east edge of the intrusive analogous to the OGDZ is targeted by additional three holes located 2 km to the eastern part. Cartier has planned to drill a hole over the project’s north-west portion and the OGDZ is intersected by the east-northeast bearing formations.