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SNS Silver Drills 1470 g/t (43 opt) over 1.5 meters
SNS Silver Drills 1470 g/t (43 opt) over 1.5 meters.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nTSX-V Trading Symbol: SNS\n\n\nVANCOUVER, Aug. 29 /CNW/ - SNS Silver Corp ("SNS") has completed\n21,000 feet (6,100 metres) of a planned 45,000 foot (13,500 metre), US$2.5\nmillion surface drilling program initiated at the Company's Crescent Mine in\nJune 2007. The surface drilling represents Phase I of a two part program which\nwill transition into Phase II by October 2007, which involves 100,000 feet\n(30,000 metres) of underground drilling at an estimated cost of US$5.0\nmillion.\n\n\nThe objective of the surface program is to identify ore that may exist\nwell above the main haulage adit, the Hooper Tunnel. The primary drill targets\nare two parallel mineralized structures approximately 800 feet apart, the\nAlhambra and South Vein structures. The Alhambra vein system is responsible\nfor most of the historic 26 million ounce production at the mine, but the\nSouth Vein was formerly known and explored only at depths of 900 metres and\nmore below the Hooper Tunnel. In addition, two intermediate veins that were\nmined above the Hooper Tunnel early in the last century form secondary\ntargets, while one newly discovered vein is also being explored.\n\n\nThe project lies in the productive Silver Belt of the Coeur d'Alene\ndistrict and adjoins the Sunshine Mine on the east and the Bunker Hill Mine on\nthe west. Surface mapping and drilling during the current season have produced\nthe following results:\n\n\n- St Regis formation strata that have been demonstrated to be the most\n productive hosts of economic Silver Belt veins have been found to\n extend upward to the surface, not part way, as had previously been\n thought; and early historic production from above the Hooper level\n has been found to have been hosted by these strata, not the\n overlying, generally less productive Wallace formation, as had long\n been believed. Wallace strata have been removed by erosion in the\n part of the property that is the subject of the Phase I exploration.\n- Encouraging alteration and veins extend throughout nearly the entire\n length and width of the property above the Hooper Tunnel. The\n intermediate veins are tentatively interpreted as possessing greater\n strike and dip dimensions than formerly known.\n- The apparent South Vein has been identified as extending as much as\n 300 metres above the Hooper Level and 600 metres w...