Sacre-Coeur Commences Next Phase of Drilling on Million Mountain Zone 9
SACRE-COEUR MINERALS, LTD. (the 'Company?) today provided further
updates on its exploration program on Zone 9 located on the 20km Million
Mountain Structural Trend within the Company′s Lower Puruni Block of
concessions located in North-central Guyana. As reported in the PR
issued last month, ground geophysics, including magnetics and induced
polarization had been initiated on Million Mountain Zone 9. The planned
start of more trench sampling and core drilling of targets previously
identified on the zone was also noted in the same PR.
Trenching and drilling of these targets focused on the contact between a
granitic intrusive body and the greenstone country rock, as well as on
known vein targets has now begun. Trenching to date has exposed numerous
new mineralized veins apparently crossing the granite-greenstone
interface. Though assay results from most of the program are still
pending, two notable results from a vein hosted in the granitic body
returned 41.2 g/t Au over a 50 cm channel sample perpendicular to the
dip of the vein, and 69.4 g/t Au from a 1 m panel sample taken down the
dip of the vein. These assays were determined by fire assay at Acme
Analytical at their Santiago, Chile lab.
To date six shallow (less than 200m) inclined holes have been completed
in the contact area and in a nearby area of very small scale, shallow,
historic underground mining worked by artisanal miners. While no assays
have yet been received from this phase of core drilling, mineralized
quartz veining with visible gold has been encountered, as well as
sheared and silicified breccias. Though no conclusion can be reached
from these empirical observations, the Company is encouraged by the
nature and persistence of mineralized veining as well as the existence
of the silicified breccias.
Drilling is expected to be on-going at Million Mountain Zone 9 for the
next several months to test existing targets as well as those developed
by the ground geophysical programs also currently underway. Drilling
results in logical information sets will be reported periodically as
assays are returned and analyzed.
Zone 9 is located 20 km WSW of Zone 1 on the Million Mountain structural
trend. It was originally discovered in the 1980′s by small miners who
developed numerous, shallow, underground and surface workings to exploit
quartz veins hosted in Lower Proterozoic greenstones and various types
of elluvial and alluvial deposits. In addition to the auriferous quartz
veins, gold mineralization has been found in the silicified host rocks
and potentially in zones of conjugate quartz veining found near
intrusive granitic stock contacts, which may have acted as the focusing
mechanism for the mineralizing fluids conducted by E-W quartz veins. As
reported previously, in 2009 the Company conducted a limited, shallow,
test drilling program on Zone 9. Several holes intercepted gold
mineralization in quartz veins, the best result being an intercept
containing gold mineralization of 4.0 g/t Au over 13.6 meters apparent
width, which included 0.55 meters containing 84.26 g/t Au.
Technical Staff
The Company′s mining and exploration program is overseen by Mr. A. David
Heyl, P. Geo., Director Mining and Exploration for the Company, under
the overall supervision of Mr. Gregory B. Sparks, P. Eng., President and
CEO. Exploration is directed by Mr. Henry Salvado, Chief Geologist. Mr.
Salvado is assisted on the hard-rock exploration program by Mr. Wilmar
Ladia, and by Mr. Bjorn Jeune, both Senior Project Geologists with many
years gold experience. Mr. Ardito Martohardjono is a Director of the
Company, and a laboratory specialist who provides assistance
establishing lab protocols, sample handling procedures, and assay
quality control. The undersigned, Mr. Heyl, and Mr. Salvado are
qualified persons under NI 43-101.
About Sacre-Coeur
The Company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development
of properties for the potential mining of gold, metals and diamonds in
South America, initially focussing on exploration for gold on its
properties in Guyana. The Company presently has an interest in
approximately 1000 sq. km of mineral properties in Guyana, including the
Million Mountain Property. The Company has offices in Vancouver, Canada
and Georgetown, Guyana. More information about the Company is available
at <www.scminerals.com>.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
SACRE-COEUR
MINERALS, LTD.
'Gregory B. Sparks?
Gregory
B. Sparks
President & CEO
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responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the content of the
information contained herein. The statements made in this press release
may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of
risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ from the
Company′s expectations. There is no guarantee that the tenor or
continuity of the resource target discussed herein will ultimately prove
to be as delineated in the Company′s sampling program, nor that the
yields obtained by production scale gravity extraction will be
comparable to the yields produced in the sampling program.
Sacre-Coeur Minerals, Ltd.
Gregory Sparks, President and CEO
Email:
greg@scminerals.com
Phone:
604-899-0100
Fax: 604-899-0200
or
Scott Young, Corporate
Communications
Email: scott@scminerals.com
Phone:
604-899-0100
Cellular: 705-888-2756
Fax: 604-899-0200