Nortec Minerals announces the Start-up of Diamond Core Drilling, Tom 1 North Target, Guinea, West Africa

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[{"type":"text","content":"Nortec Minerals announces the Start-up of Diamond Core Drilling, Tom 1 North Target, Guinea, West Africa(via TheNewswire)\n\n \nVancouver, BC / TheNewswire / February 26, 2018 - NORTEC MINERALS CORP. (the \"Company\" or \"Nortec\") (TSXV: NVT) - Nortec is pleased to announce that diamond core drilling commenced on the Southeast extension of Priority 1 - Tom 1 North Target (Priority 1). \n\n \n \nPrevious drilling on the Priority 1 target from the northwest (holes TBDD0003, 0004, 0005 and 0006) showed gold values increasing and open to the Southeast. The last hole TBD0007 returned 19 metres at 2.64 g/t Gold from 31 metres including 7 metres at 3.57 g/t and 1 metre at 17.1 g/t. The planned drill holes are shown in Figures 1 and 2. Diamond core drilling consisting of 1000 metres will test the target for a strike length of over 400 metres and to a depth of 100 metres.\n\n \n \nDrill pads are being constructed for the Rotary Air Blast (RAB) drilling on priority 2 and 3 - and Tom 1 north targets. RAB drilling will also test the high priority termite mound anomalies and geochemical soil anomalies, as well as artisanal workings on the Tom 2 and Tom 3 targets (Figure 3).\n\n \n \nThe Tom 1, Tom 2 and Tom 3 targets are located in the Tomboko Permit, northeastern Guinea, West Africa. Nortec is earning an 80% interest in The Golden Rule Limited's holdings in Tomboko Permit and other holdings in northeastern Guinea.\n\n \n \nThe Tomboko Permit totals more than 75 square kilometres and is located immediately west of, and is surrounded by Anglo-Ashanti's SAG multi-million ounce gold mine and related land holdings. Extensive bedrock (rock geochemical sampling), soil, termite mound and pit sampling (over 10,000 samples) plus detailed geological mapping have delineated these target areas for immediate follow up drilling; Tom-1, Tom-2 and Tom-3.\n\n \n \nThe gold mineralization on the Tom-1 and Tom-2 targets appears to be hosted in highly altered, sheared, brecciated sandstone and volcanic rocks of the early Paleoproterozoic age Siguiri Basin. The SAG Mine is also hosted in the same age rocks. The TOM 3 Prospect is hosted in quartz porphyry intrusive rocks. The mode of occurrence of the gold mineralization is similar to the Koulekoun deposit owned by Avocet Mining, located 120 kilometres to the south; a resource of indicated 31.5m tonnes at 1.38g/...

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