Westhaven Gold (TSXV: WHN) has released new results from ongoing drilling at its wholly owned Shovelnose gold project. Covering 76.2 sq. km, Shovelnose is the largest of the company's four properties held within the Spences Bridge Gold Belt (SBGB) of British Columbia.
The highlighted drill hole SN22-212, which returned 23 metres of 37.24 grams gold per tonne and 214.7 grams silver per tonne, is over 2 km from the heart of the South zone open pit resource.
The current drill campaign is designed to follow up on higher-grade intersections from last year's program (hole SN21-161: 9.15 grams gold over 16 metres) and broader intervals of near-surface mineralization (hole SN21-188: 0.76 grams gold over 57.8 metres).
Drilling is focused on the FMN zone, where the above mentioned high-grade intersection occurred. The latest results include multiple gold mineralized intercepts over 500 metres of strike length, including the highest gold-silver intercept (857.6 gram-metres) ever drilled on the Shovelnose gold property.
In January, Westhaven outlined an open pit resource for the South zone totalling 10.6 million indicated tonnes grading 2.32 grams gold and 11.43 grams silver, plus 9.2 million inferred tonnes grading 0.89 gram gold and 3.47 grams silver.
"We believe the FMN zone has the potential to contribute significantly to the property wide precious metals inventory. It is not uncommon in enriched epithermal systems to discover multiple high-grade gold chutes and, given the strong nature of this system and low drill density in this area, we believe there is going to be more high-grade chutes discovered along this approximate 4-kilometre trend," Westhaven president and CEO Gareth Thomas stated.
"In addition to the drill currently located at the FMN zone, a second drill has been added at the Alpine zone focused on following up on hole SNR21-55, which intersected 3.1 metres of 45.23 grams gold and 195.64 grams silver," he added.