A second round of drilling at the Long Lake Gold project near Sudbury will begin on or before July 4, announced Sunrise Resources.
“The results from our first drill program included high-grade gold intersections that exceeded expectations,” executive chairman Patrick Cheetham said in a news release. “We look forward to the results from the follow-up drilling program and expect to build on those exciting first results.”
First-round drilling results revealed 17.0 grading 2.9 g/t gold, including 2.3 m grading 16.1 g/t gold within a 35 m thick interval grading 2.0 g/t gold. Grades to 55 g/t gold (1.8 ounces gold per ton) were also reported over narrow intervals, the company reported.
The second round of drilling will look for down-dip and along-strike extensions to the gold mineralization mined before the closure of Long Lake Gold Mine in 1939. The mine produced 57,000 ounces of gold from ore having an average grade of over 11 g/t gold down to a depth of just 55 m from surface.
Planned additional drilling includes 10 holes for 1,000 m of diamond drilling and is expected to take six weeks to complete. Analytical results will be available six weeks after the completion of the drill program.
Sunrise holds a three-year option, effective May 5, 2010, to acquire the Long Lake claim group located to the southwest of Sudbury, where the claims are being explored for gold and nickel-copper-platinum group elements.
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