Highlights:
- Discovery of new gold occurrences aligned into major structural corridors:
Anaconda West: Up to 117.00 g/t Au, 6.6 g/t Ag and 0.10% Pb
Anaconda East: 3.38 g/t Au
Couleuvre: 38.40 g/t Au
Reptile: 13.65 g/t Au
SER-19-RO-060: 1.25 g/t Au
SER-19-FH-159: 1.43 g/t Au.
New Gold Discoveries
Harfang completed another prospecting and geological mapping program in
Table 1. Gold-bearing grab samples (≥1 g/t Au) collected during fall 2019.
Showing | Sample | Au (g/t) | Ag (g/t) |
Boa | A0120561 | 1.99 | BDL |
A0120559 | 17.20 | 1.3 | |
A0120558 | 2.25 | 0.5 | |
Anaconda West | A0120569 | 117.00 | 6.6 |
A0120570 | 43.40 | 5.8 | |
Anaconda East | A0120572 | 3.38 | BDL |
Couleuvre | A0120614 | 38.40 | 0.8 |
Reptile | A0120566 | 13.65 | 0.6 |
SER-19-FH-159 | A0120628 | 1.43 | BDL |
SER-19-RO-060 | A0120534 | 1.25 | BDL |
BDL: Below Detection Limit |
That field intervention clearly revealed, for the first time, a spatial link between gold-bearing quartz veins and extensive E-W to WNW-ESE structural breaks represented by magnetic discontinuities (Figures 1 and 3-5). These breaks are part a wide deformational corridor defined in the southern part of the Property (Figure 3). As an example, several gold occurrences were found along a strike length of 2 km on one of these breaks between Boa and Anaconda East (Boa-Anaconda Trend, Figure 5). As of now, all known high-grade gold occurrences are distributed in a 10 km2 area with each of them located on specific E-W to WNW-ESE magnetic discontinuities. Actual mapping suggests that this sector contains abundant gabbroic dykes and irregular bodies and late granitoids (locally K-feldspar porphyritic) intruded into the highly metamorphosed and deformed tonalitic gneiss.
These new gold discoveries are all associated with decimetric (10-30 cm wide) quartz veins hosted in foliated/gneissic tonalite, gabbroic dykes or at the contact between both lithologies. The veins, sometimes extending for severals tens of meters, are interpreted as shear zone veins. Gold-bearing veins commonly contain disseminated sulfides (<1%) such as pyrite and galena. Alteration minerals associated with quartz veins include common biotite and amphibole, minor chlorite and rare calcite. As mentioned in the press release published on
Before the first field investigation by Harfang in 2017, no gold showing was reported inside the limits of the actual Property. Figure 5 shows the distribution of outcrops with anomalous contents in gold (>0.1 g/t Au) in the central part of the Property which includes most of the gold showings (>1 g/t Au). Anomalies in gold (>0.1 g/t Au) are almost exclusively associated with quartz veins. Our work also demonstrates that the Property hosts copper, silver, lead, zinc, molybdenum and tungsten showings together with significant bismuth anomalies. This polymetallic signature and the presence of the Mista prospect (Cu-Au-Ag) could suggest an intrusion-related mineralization style coupled with orogenic gold.
2020 Exploration Program
Harfang is planning its 2020 exploration program motivated by these discoveries and the remaining mineral potential of the Serpent Property particularly along the pluri-kilometric structural breaks. The abundant gold occurrences on the Property and the adjacent Quebec Precious Metals Corporation’s La
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Rock samples discussed in this press release were sent to ALS Minerals (Val-d’Or,
The sampling procedure and interpretation of the results were done by qualified employees using a QAQC program conformed to the best practices in the industry including the use of standards and blanks.
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