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Hole 237 cuts 304.5m of 1.19 g/t gold at growing Thorn target North of 60 Mining News - January 9, 2023
Visible gold cut at a depth of 160 meters in hole THN22-237, which cut 304.5 meters of 1.19 g/t gold at the Trapper target on Brixton Metals' Thorn project in Northern BC.
Brixton Metals Corp. Jan. 9 announced that its 2022 drilling cut wide bulk tonnage gold intercepts with impressive high-grade subsections at the Trapper target on its Thorn project in Northern British Columbia.
A 2,863-square-kilometer (1,105 square miles) land package at the northern corner of BC's famed Golden Triangle, the Thorn project hosts both epithermal gold targets such as Trapper and large-scale porphyry copper-gold-silver-molybdenum targets such as Camp Creek about five miles (eight kilometers) to the northwest.
The 2022 program at Thorn included 18,200 meters of drilling in 58 holes. Most of this drilling was completed at Camp Creek and Thorn, but the company also tested the Outlaw gold and Metla copper-gold targets this year.
The latest batch of results are from 2022 drilling at Trapper; highlights include:
• 304.5 meters averaging 1.19 grams per metric ton gold from a depth of four meters in hole THN22-237, including 14 meters averaging 10.7 g/t gold.
• 398.3 meters averaging 0.85 g/t gold from a depth of eight meters in hole THN22-243, including 6.6 meters averaging 20.71 g/t gold.
• 199 meters averaging 1.12 g/t gold from a depth of 18 meters in hole THN22-248, including three meters averaging 17.15 g/t gold.
• 173 meters averaging 1.08 g/t gold from a depth of seven meters in hole THN22-251, including four meters averaging 9.56 g/t gold.
"We are highly encouraged by the broad gold intercepts and high-grades drilled on the Trapper Gold Target to date," said Brixton Metals Vice President of Exploration Christina Anstey. "Drill hole THN22-237 is a great example of the broad scale gold mineralization we observe in the quartz diorite host and this intercept significantly increased the scale of the target leaving the zone open in all directions."
Including this latest release, Brixton has reported assays from 32 holes drilled at Trapper last year. Highlights from previously reported assays from 2022 drilling at Trapper include:
• 47 meters averaging 1.1 g/t gold from a depth of 53 meters in hole THN22-206.
• 47 meters averaging 1.06 g/t gold from a depth of 119 meters in hole THN22-207.
• 146 meters averaging 0.63 g/t gold from a depth of 10 meters in hole THN22-209, including 48 meters averaging 1.05 g/t gold.
• 191.3 meters averaging 0.53 g/t gold from a depth of 2.7 meters in hole THN22-245, including 28 meters averaging 1.33 g/t gold.
• 102 meters averaging 1.04 g/t gold from a depth of four meters in hole THN22-254, including 39 meters averaging 2.11 g/t gold.
• 262 meters averaging 1.04 g/t gold from a depth of 12 meters in hole THN22-255, including 75.5 meters averaging 2.35 g/t gold.
• 89.6 meters averaging 0.8 g/t gold from a depth of four meters in hole THN22-257, including 38 meters averaging 1.75 g/t gold.
"We look forward to reporting on the additional nine holes from Trapper, one deep hole from Camp Creek and eight shallow holes from Metla as assays become available from the 2022 drilling season," said Anstey.
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