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Preps for summer program with early 2022 geophysical survey North of 60 Mining News – May 6, 2022
Looking east at the Partin Creek area of the Chulitna project.
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Discovery Alaska Ltd. May 4 announced that an airborne geophysical survey is underway at the Partin Creek gold-silver-copper prospect on its Chulitna project in Alaska.
Discovery Alaska acquired the Chulitna project early last year through the staking of a roughly 77-square-mile land package that lies about four miles west of the Parks Highway midway between Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska.
The Australia-based exploration company formerly known as Discovery Africa hired an experienced Alaskan geological firm to carry out a field program that primarily focused on confirming and expanding upon known gold occurrences at three primary areas of the Partin Creek prospect – North Zone, South Zone, and West Vein.
Highilights from rock sampling completed during the 2021 program include: 73.9 grams per metric ton gold, 26.7 g/t silver, and 0.28% copper; 28.7 g/t gold, 304 g/t silver, and 2.62% copper; 20.2 g/t gold, 477 g/t silver, and 1.49% copper; and 30.9 g/t gold, 1,500 g/t silver, and 1.37% copper.
In addition, samples of talus fines collected along the base of steep cliffs at Partin Creek returned grades as high as 7.18 g/t gold and 12.25 g/t silver.
Given the promising results from this sampling, Discovery Alaska is now preparing the next stage exploration follow-up, with the aim to identify priority sites for subsequent potential drilling.
This follow-up work includes the recently started airborne geophysical survey, targeting the identified mineralized skarns and to assist with delineating structures, alteration and lithology at the anomalous areas identified by sampling.
This approximately 100 line-kilometer magnetic survey is being flown in a systematic low-level grid pattern over the Partin Creek area.
Flying the geophysical survey program at this time ensures that the results are received prior and can be utilized during the Alaskan summer field-works season.
"The company is excited to commence this next phase of exploration works at the Partin Creek prospect, noting current results to-date have succeeded in delineating gold-silver-copper targets within our prospect area," said Discovery Alaska Director Jerko Zuvela.
Over his more than 16 years of covering mining and mineral exploration, Shane has become renowned for his ability to report on the sector in a way that is technically sound enough to inform industry insiders while being easy to understand by a wider audience.
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