Manitou Gold has reported the final assays of the 2011 diamond drilling program conducted at the Gaffney extension project in Northwest Ontario. The company has conducted the first 3D modeling program for the mineralized gold identified at the project.
All 31 holes drilled during 2011 have been included in this 3D model. This model has shown the expansion of the mineralized zone along down dip of 425 m and strike for around 400 m. The mineralized zone stays exposed along strike and at depth. The 3D model has demonstrated a steep southwest plunge towards the mineralized system’s thicker part. The company’s future drilling will target this thicker down plunge part of the mineralized system.
Manitou drilled the four final holes of the 2011 program at the Gaffney project. The company intersected 2.4 g/t gold over 75.1 m in hole G-11-27. Two mineralized gold intervals were encountered in hole G-11-29, which returned 1.7 g/t gold over 9.6 m and 3.4 g/t gold over 6.3 m. The company has tested the hole G-11-28, which was found to be drilled over the plunge of the mineralized zone. The hole G-11-30 cut the zone mineralization’s lower edge. Two gold intervals were intercepted in the same hole which include 1.3 g/t gold over 8.0 m and 3.4 g/t gold over 5.0 m. Manitou encountered 0.56 g/t gold over 18.6 m in hole G-11-30, 2.4 g/t gold over 1.5 m in hole G-11-31.
The Gaffney Extension’s mineralized gold is present in a quartz eye intrusion, which is highly altered with thin stringers and quartz veins along with dispersed alteration of pervasive ankerite and pyrite.
Drill pads and ice roads are being constructed to conduct a 7,000 m program at the Gaffney Extension project during winter.