Drilling is focused on the FMN zone, where the high-grade intersection occurred. The latest results include multiple gold-mineralized intercepts over 500 metres of strike length, including the highest gold-silver intercept (857.64 gram-metres) ever drilled on the Shovelnose gold property.
The highlighted drill hole SN22-212, which returned 23.03 metres of 37.24 g/t gold and 214.70 g/t silver, is over 2 kilometres from the heart of the South zone open-pit resource.
In January, Westhaven outlined an open-pit resource for the South zone totalling 10.6 million indicated tonnes grading 2.32 g/t gold and 11.43 g/t silver, plus 9.2 million inferred tonnes grading 0.89 g/t gold and 3.47 g/t silver.
“We believe the FMN zone has the potential to contribute significantly to the property wide precious metals inventory. It is not uncommon in enriched epithermal systems to discover multiple high-grade gold chutes and, given the strong nature of this system and low drill density in this area, we believe there is going to be more high-grade chutes discovered along this approximate 4-kilometre trend,” Westhaven CEO Gareth Thomas said in a news release.
“In addition to the drill currently located at the FMN zone, a second drill has been added at the Alpine zone focused on following-up on hole SNR21-55, which intersected 3.13 metres of 45.23 g/t gold and 195.64 g/t silver,” Thomas added.
