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Mining Explorers 2022 - January 19, 2023
As drills test the known resource areas at Ulu, the Gold Star exploration team has been generating new targets across the company's properties covering the High Lake Greenstone Belt.
Washing core from the 2022 drilling at the Flood and Gnu zones on Blue Star Gold's Ulu property in Nunavut.
While drills targeted the expansion and upgrade of established gold resources at Ulu, Blue Star Gold Corp.'s geological team focused on elevating other targets across the company's Ulu, Hood River, and Roma properties, which cover a more than 45-kilometer (28 miles) stretch of the High Lake Greenstone Belt in Nunavut to drill-ready status.
According to a 2015 calculation, the Flood and Gnu zones on the Ulu property host 2.5 million metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 7.53 grams per metric ton (605,000 ounces) gold; and 1.26 million metric tons of inferred resource grading 5.57 g/t (226,000 oz) gold.
In June, Blue Star launched a 3,690-meter drill program to upgrade and expand these deposits that lie about 600 meters apart, as well as test the Central-C and Axis zones that lie between them.
Highlights from the 25 holes drilled in these zones include:
• 17.4 meters averaging 6.52 g/t gold from a depth of 4.4 meters in hole DD22-FLO-001 (Flood).
• 17.65 meters averaging 15 g/t gold from a depth of 115.1 meters in hole DD22-FLO-002 (Flood).
• Three meters averaging 2.51 g/t gold from a depth of 137.4 meters in hole DD22-MIQ-002 (Gnu).
• 4.2 meters averaging 8.18 g/t gold from a depth of 94.1 meters in hole DD22-MSK-005 (Gnu).
While drills are turning within the resource area, Blue Star's geological team continued to explore the extensive pipeline of prospective targets.
"An important component of the program was the successful progression of many of the prospective target zones closer to drill ready status," said Blue Star Gold CEO Grant Ewing.
This exploration work includes regional geochemical sampling on the Roma property, which lies on the north end of the High Lake Greenstone Belt about 32 kilometers (20 miles) north of the adjoining Ulu and Hood River properties.
This sampling is utilizing detectORE, a new technology that allows for quantitative gold analysis in the field with a portable XRF (X-ray fluorescence) scanner, which immediately began highlighting areas for follow-up. Given the rapid results, the company has expanded its use of this technology.
In addition to the sampling, Blue Star flew magnetometry geophysical surveys over almost the entirety of its High Lake Greenstone Belt landholdings earlier this year. This data is expected to help guide further exploration.
"I am encouraged to see that our regional and prospect level work is generating new targets to drill evaluate in future programs," said Blue Star Gold Vice President of Exploration Darren Lindsay. "Our pipeline has been very bottom heavy and with this work we will see key targets moving up to the drill ready stage."
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