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X-Terra Resources Defines Gold Drilling Targets on the Grog and Northwest Properties
ROUYN-NORANDA, QC, Jan. 7, 2020 /CNW Telbec/ - X-Terra Resources Inc. (TSXV: XTT) (FRANKFURT: XTR) is pleased to announce that it has defined several high prior
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[{"type":"text","content":" ROUYN-NORANDA, QC, Jan. 7, 2020 /CNW Telbec/ - X-Terra Resources Inc. (TSXV: XTT) (FRANKFURT: XTR) is pleased to announce that it has defined several high priority gold drilling targets on its road-accessible Grog and Northwest properties, located in Restigouche County in the province of New Brunswick. The targets were defined as a result of the fieldwork and data processing completed throughout the 2019 exploration program. Winter drilling will allow to accelerate the exploration process and continue to generate high quality sampling in areas previously identified as gold-bearing. Geochemical surveys, high resolution magnetic survey and induced polarization were completed across the Grog and Northwest properties, in addition to the trenching and structural mapping that were completed to produce a first drilling plan. The Grog and Northwest properties are characterized by a one to two metres thick soil and overburden blanket without nearly any outcropping areas. This situation creates both an opportunity and a challenge for exploration by making the classic \"hammer and boot\" prospecting more challenging. Identification of targets needed to be supported heavily on indirect exploration methods, such as, geochemistry and geophysics followed by drilling. Grog gold mineralization targets correspond to an area of about 6 kilometres along the East to Northeast McKenzie Fault Zone. The mineralized system is not attached to a unique structure and remain inside a one kilometre-wide favorable corridor marked by a complex folding pattern with associated shear zones. A feldspathic dyke swarm event runs all along the targets associated with clay alteration, open space filling quartz veining marked by brecciation and sulfidation. The gold-bearing system can be tracked using arsenic and antimony as pathfinders. The Northwest veins system is located about 25 kilometres further south in a distinct geological environment composed of wacke sediments metamorphosed to the greenschist metamorphism facies. In this context, low sulfides, free gold-bearing quartz veins are hosted in strongly dipping shear zones marked locally by drag folding. Chlorite group minerals are the main component of the alteration system. While early, the drilling proposal is supported by multiple field evidences such as the gold enrichment observed with lithological con...