A contract for 2,000m of diamond drilling was given to Cabo Drilling of Springdale, Newfoundland and Labrador, for drilling on the Big Easy property and the Rambler South gold property in the Baie Verte area.
All three holes, at the south end of the alteration zone, at -50 degree dip and approximately 100m apart, the first ever drilled on the property, collared in, and intersected wide zones of strongly altered (silicified) sedimentary units.
Two of the holes (1 and 3) intersected unaltered, post mineralization, mafic dikes over widths in the 15m to 20m range near the top of the holes.
Drill holes 1 and 2 were stopped in unaltered, unmineralized, red conglomerate while hole 3 was stopped in an unaltered, unmineralized, fine grained, green mudstone.
Gouge zones, thought to represent fault structures, were noted in drill hole 3, including at the bottom of the 27 m brecciated section.
Trench channel samples indicate that the altered zone is anomalous in precious metals with gold values ranging from 30ppb to 2,083ppb with a mean of 71.7ppb.
The highest gold value, 2083ppb over 0.7m, was in silicified sediments cut by a 1.5m wide quartz vein in Trench 5.
The 121 claim property, located near Thorburn Lake in eastern Newfoundland, was optioned from prospectors Alex Turpin and Colin Kendall.
