Hunter Bay Minerals has inked an agreement to conduct diamond drilling for 5,000 m at the Sela Creek project in Suriname.
The company is expected to begin drilling on or before 31 March, 2012. It will employ a portable drilling rig that has the potential to drill 100 m and 300 m of downhole depths in HQ and NQ.
Primarily, this drill program will focus on the prominent mineralization at the Cambior, Jons Pit and Puma prospects. The objective of the program is to outline strike and down dip mineralization continuity that is open at surface by means of artisanal works. Shallow mineralization will be focused for drilling to a maximum depth of 200 m in a vertical direction.
The company has planned to drill 2,500 m at the Jons Pit prospect, wherein mineralization for more than 1.5 km of strike has been noticed. Mineralization is present in silica-altered and limonite stained shear zones that are up to a thickness of 16 m and in sub-vertical quartz veins.
Hunter Bay has planned to drill 1,500 m at the Cambior prospect, which is a 1.1 km long zone that is trending in north-northwest direction and this zone has the Cambior and Cambior North targets. Cambior North is a sheeted vein zone for more than 100 m long, which strikes below the cover towards the south and is exposed towards the north. The thickness of this sheeted vein zone is up to 9 m. This zone is present in foliated phyllite. The company has noticed visible gold in the quartz veins. Cambior is located 300 m towards the southern part of Cambior North and has quartz vein zones and also limonite staining in fold hinges, associated to a clip zone.
Drilling of 1,000 m is being intended for the Puma prospect that has a 2.3 km long gold in soil anomaly that is trending towards west-northwest.