Callinex Mines has obtained the approval for drilling the Gossan Hill property in Manitoba. The company has mobilized two diamond drilling rigs to the property in order to prepare for winter drilling.
The winter drilling of 2012 will include diamond drilling of around 10,000 m in a proposed 37 holes. This program will examine fresh targets found during 2011 soil geochemical program and prominent gold-bearing formations discovered in 2010-2011 Callinex’s drilling program.
The company drilled 5,997 m, totaling 23 holes, through the 2010-2011 winter drilling conducted at the property. Mineralized silver and gold was identified in 31 holes. Callinex intersected 9.47 g/t gold and 16.52 g/t silver over core width of 4.70 m in GOS 11, 9.73 g/t gold and 6.91 g/t silver over 5.75 meters in core width of GOS 25, 4.60 g/t gold and 15.13 g/t silver over core length of 23.81 m in GOS 28, 4.21 g/t gold and 12.69 g/t silver over core length of 15.91 m in GOS 30.
The Gossan Hill zone was analyzed along a strike of 300 m and 350 m of vertical depth from surface during 2011 campaign. One drilling rig out of two will be assigned for examining the expansions of the structure in depth and strike during 2012.
Callinex planned for a surface Mobile Metal Ion (MMI) geochemical sampling to extend its analysis on the gold-bearing structure and also to look for identical structures along the intrusive-volcanic contact measuring 4 km. This anomaly will be drill tested using the second rig, as part of the ongoing campaign.
Mineralization at Gossan Hill, containing silver and gold, is associated with mineralized sulphide in carbonate-quartz veining that is near a sheared volcanic or intrusive contact zone. Mapped geological analysis has shown that the structure has a strike length of 4 km.