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Etruscus Resources Extends Mineralized Black Dog System to 2.7 km With 1.75 km Step-Out
VANCOUVER, Jan. 16, 2020 /CNW/ - Etruscus Resources Corp. (CSE: ETR) (the "Company" or "Etruscus") is pleased to announce results from its initial 2019 drill pr
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, Jan. 16, 2020 /CNW/ - Etruscus Resources Corp. (CSE: ETR) (the \"Company\" or \"Etruscus\") is pleased to announce results from its initial 2019 drill program on its wholly owned Rock & Roll Property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle region. The program comprised 2,622 meters (\"m\") of core in 8 drill holes, all completed outside of the existing resource area. We designed the drill program to test the size and scale of the Black Dog system. Historically, this was not executed as almost all 113 holes were focused on the Black Dog deposit. The 2019 drilling successfully expanded the mineralized system to a total length of 2.7 km, more than 4 times the original strike length. Additional geophysical targets within this extended mineralized horizon remain untested. These results continue to support the targeting of silver and gold-enriched VMS systems on the western flank of the Eskay Camp near the past-producing high-grade Snip gold mine. Highlights of the 2019 drill program include achieving 4 critical results: Intersecting a sulphide mineralized horizon in a 1.75 km step-out to the northwest of the precious metal-enriched Black Dog system; Intercepting a mineralized horizon in a 400 m step-out to the southeast; A lengthy intercept of rhyolites that are commonly related to VMS systems, including nearby Eskay Creek, was intersected in RR19-03; and Drill hole RR19-03 also demonstrated the conformable nature of the extensive carbonate terrain west of the Black Dog Deposit, opening this previously underexplored area (Click here to view map) to be tested for VMS mineralization. At the Angie target, RR19-07 was drilled 1.75 km northwest of the Black Dog deposit and tested a discrete conductive anomaly, intersecting 20 cm of massive, banded sulphides within a mixed sequence of carbonaceous argillites and volcanic rocks similar to the Black Dog horizon. RR19-06 was drilled from the same collar location and hit blebby and stringer chalcopyrite, sphalerite and pyrrhotite that occupied weaknesses or fractures in intermediate volcanic rocks. The significant strike length of the mineralized horizon to the north provides a large package of newly prospective areas to test for other massive sulphide zones. The additional conductors within this horizon remain untested. The continuation of the mineral...