Oct 4 2012
Kiska Metals Corporation ("Kiska" or "the Company") (TSX VENTURE:KSK) reports that partner Brixton Metals Corporation has commenced the second phase of its 2012 drilling program at the Thorn Property in northwestern British Columbia. This work follows up recent drilling at the Oban Breccia Zone (see news release dated September 4, 2012). Highlights of that program include:
- THN12-65 intersected 12.90 metres of 512.66 g/t silver, 1.72 g/t gold, 4.24% lead and 1.54% zinc from surface within a broader interval of 83.90 metres of 161.47 g/t silver, 1.02 g/t gold, 1.29% lead and 1.48% zinc.
- THN12-63 intersected 13.00 metres of 402.15 g/t silver, 1.63 g/t gold, 2.89% lead and 3.31% zinc from surface within a broader interval of 80.52 metres of 140.16 g/t silver, 0.94 g/t gold, 1.08% lead and 1.49% zinc.
- THN12-72 intersected 53.00 metres of 126.54 g/t silver, 1.57 g/t gold, 0.37% lead and 1.09% zinc within a broader interval of 104.85 metres of 88.01 g/t silver, 1.10 g/t gold, 0.24% lead and 0.63% zinc.
This second phase of work at the Thorn will consist of 1,500 to 2,000 metres of drilling. All holes will target the extension of Oban Breccia Zone mineralization where a 2011 drill hole, THN11-60, intersected 95.08 metres of 628.3 g/t silver, 1.71 g/t gold, 0.12% copper, 3.31% lead and 2.39% zinc including 9.25 metres averaging 2,984.4 g/t silver, 3.04 g/t gold, 0.53% copper, 11.60% lead and 3.42% zinc. Mineralization is comprised of pyrite, galena, sphalerite, sulphosalts and chalcopyrite hosted in a hydrothermal breccia matrix. The breccia that hosts Oban mineralization is thought to be at least 300 metres in diameter with its eastern extent buried under glacial till. A plan map and cross sections from the 2012 program can be viewed at http://www.kiskametals.com/s/ThornMaps_Photos.asp.
Fieldwork will also be completed in the Amarillo Creek area, to locate the source of a gold-bearing float sample that assayed 265 g/t gold and 631 g/t silver. This work will consist of contour soil sampling in the headwaters of Amarillo Creek where satellite imagery indicates the presence of illite and alunite clay alteration prospective for gold mineralization.