The two diamond drill holes were drilled at -90o and -70o dips to allow drilling to depth. Both holes were cored within the current gold resource estimate shell where the
Hole KG21-01 returned 0.57 g/t gold over its entire 352.95 metres; including 140 metres grading 1.01 g/t gold. Hole GM21-10 averaged 0.36 g/t gold over 522.58 metres including 72 metres grading 0.92 g/t gold. Both holes show remarkably consistent gold grades over their entire lengths.
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Upcoming metallurgical test work will be completed separately on drill core coarse rejects from each of the two drill holes identified above as the host lithologies for the gold mineralization in each hole differs.
The objective of this metallurgical testing program is to conduct baseline investigations to determine the Kena gold mineralization's amenability to gravity, flotation and cyanidation process options. The scope of this study consists of sample preparation, head sample characterization, baseline gravity concentration, cyanidation and sulphide flotation. If the test samples respond well to gravity concentration, then the following two combined process options will be tested at the optimum grind established from grind recovery tests: gravity pre-concentration followed by cyanidation of gravity tailings and gravity pre-concentration followed by flotation of gravity tailings and then cyanidation of flotation concentrate.
Each process option will be tested at three grind sizes possibly ranging from 75- to 150 -microm to investigate the effect of grind size on gold recovery. Prior to metallurgical testing, a set of mill calibration tests (test grinds) using a laboratory stainless still rod mill will be performed on the composite to establish the grind size vs. time curve.
The analytical work will be performed by BV Minerals -
The 2022 field exploration program on the
Quality Assurance/Quality Control ('QA/QC')
West's QA/QC procedures include one each of blank, field duplicate and standard inserted into the sample stream for every 20 drill core samples. Core samples are split, bagged, zip-tied and trucked to
Samples are analyzed at
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