MetalsTech hits more gold, silver at Slovakian Sturec project in late year diamond drill run
Company believes it has enough data to expand its high-grade gold zone on-site
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- MetalsTech has reported results from 3 more diamond drillholes at Sturec
- Company believes today’s results may allow company to expand high-grade gold zone on-site, potentially uplifting JORC
- Drills continue to intersect quartz veining, common attribute of successful gold mines
Metalstech (ASX:MTC) continues to report strong diamond drill rig gold drilling results from its Slovakia-based Sturec gold and silver project, where an August scoping study determined a resource over 1Moz.
Investor information provider Undervalued Equity classifies high grade gold as that in concentrations over five grams per tonne of ore (5g/t); while silver is classified as high grade at 50g/t.
Compare that to today’s results:
37m @ 1.60g/t gold and 8.10g/t silver from 47m depth, including:
27m @ 2.00g/t gold and 9.90g/t silver from 56m, and
06m @ 6.06g/t gold and 10.5g/t silver from 77m
36m @ 0.7g/t gold and 4.8g/t silver from 28m depth, including:
10m @ 1.78g/t gold and 5.90g/t silver from 54m depth, and
02m @ 4.08g/t gold and 4.6g/t silver from 62m depth
53m @ 0.74g/t gold and 3.00g/t silver from 14m depth, including:
03m @ 5.53g/t gold and 7.90g/t silver from 54m depth
Potential resource upgrade
The first drillhole listed above, UGA-49, intersected higher-than-anticipated gold grades on the “lower margin of the current resource” and may result in an increase in the gold grades of this zone, as listed in the JORC.
The company continues to intersect silver and gold through its operations at Sturec, demonstrating the exploration team’s acument in picking drill targets, as well as shoring up investor (and company) confidence in the potential commercial value of the project down the line.
Comparison with previous results
Today’s diamond drill rig data differs from the first batch of November assays announced earlier this month from the first leg of diamond drilling.
Results from that release read as follows:
05m @ 9.49g/t gold from 126m depth (15g/t silver), including:
01m @ 43.6g/t gold from 126m
04m @ 9.21g/t gold from 58m depth (30.8g/t silver)
03m @ 5.21g/t gold from 85m depth
While piecemeal evidence cannot be applied to the entire project area as a generalisation, there is an increasing amount of evidence MetalsTech continues to hit higher-grade mineralisation at depths exceeding 50m.
Quartz veining has been consistently identified at Sturec, a type of geological formation which often hosts gold and sulphides.
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