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Opawica Engages Drill Contractor for 14 High Priority Targets on Bazooka Property, Quebec
(TheNewswire) Vancouver, B.C. – TheNewswire - November 30 ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Opawica Engages Drill Contractor for 14 High Priority Targets on Bazooka Property, Quebec\n \n \n (TheNewswire)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vancouver, B.C. –\n \n \n TheNewswire -\n \n \n November 30\n \n \n th\n \n \n , 2021 -\nOpawica Explorations Inc. (TSXV:OPW) (FSE:A2PEAD) (OTC:OPWEF) (the\n“Company” or “Opawica”)\n \n \n announces that\nfurther to the Company’s news release of November 24\n \n \n th\n \n \n , 2021, the\nCompany has engaged the services of a Forage DCB Drilling of\nRouyn-Noranda to undertake a minimum of 3,000 meters of drilling on\nthe Bazooka Property.\n \n \n \n \n Blake Morgan, Chief Executive Officer of Opawica\nstated, “The team at Opawica is thrilled to begin drilling on the\nBazooka Property. Historically the Bazooka Property has hosted some\nexciting gold grades and we are looking forward to expanding on\nthat.”\n \n \n \n \n Significant gold mineralization has been established on\nthe Bazooka property from near surface to approximately 250 metres\nvertical depth during past drill programs completed on the property by\nprevious owners. In 1944, Siscoe intersected an interval of 5.79\nmetres of 77.18 g/t Au (true width unknown); with historical drill\nintercepts ranging from narrow and intermittent anomalous gold. In\n1981, Soquem reported values of up to 7.50 metres of 25.77 g/t Au; and\nin 2003 Lake Shore Gold Corp. intercepted 1.25 metres of 94.11 g/t Au;\nand RT Minerals Corp. intersected values of up to 17 metres of core\nlength at 7.86 g/t Au, including 7.20 metres of 16.77 g/t Au. These\nrecent intervals are estimated at approximately 85% to 93% true\nwidths. This gold mineralization is known to exist within 50 metres on\nstrike to the gold mineralization on the Yorbeau property and for a\ncurrent strike length on Opawica’s Bazooka property and optioned\nBazooka property for approximately seven kilometres.\n \n \n \n \n Opawica’s drill program is designed to test the depth\nextension of the mineralized zone of the underground works. In\n1951-52, Eldona Gold Mine sank a shaft of 125 m and at level -114 m\nand 634 m of drifts were developed and reached the fold nose feature\nof the Cadillac Larder Lake Break (“CLLB”).\n \n \n Four mineralized gold zones were outlined as follows:\n“\n \n \n Average of back p...