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Opawica Intercepts Visible Gold "Again" & Completes 4,742m of Drilling at Bazooka
(TheNewswire) Vancouver, B.C. – TheNewswire - February 28, 202...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Opawica Intercepts Visible Gold \"Again\" & Completes 4,742m of Drilling at Bazooka\n \n \n (TheNewswire)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vancouver, B.C. –\n \n \n TheNewswire -\n \n \n February 28, 2022 - Opawica Explorations Inc.\n(TSXV:OPW) (FSE:A2PEAD) (OTC:OPWEF) (the “Company” or\n“Opawica”) is pleased to provide an update on its first phase of\ndrilling on the Company's Bazooka property in Rouyn Noranda camp of\nQuebec.\n \n \n \n \n Highlights include:\n \n \n \n \n •        To date the Company has drilled 22 holes\nhave now been completed on the Bazooka property, comprising of\n \n \n \n 4,742\n \n \n \n metres. 1,658 rock samples, representing 2,092 linear meters,\nhave been sent for assay to Actlabs in Quebec.\n \n \n \n \n •        The drill program targeting the Cadillac\nshear zone intersected prospective geology with a variable amount of\nquartz veining, brecciation, silicification, and quartz stockwork,\nwith associated sulphides.\n \n \n \n \n •        Visible gold was encountered in a quartz\nvein shear zone in hole OP-21-22 at a depth of approximately 279.45\nmetres. (See Figure 1 below)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Click Image To View Full Size\n \n \n \n \n Figure 1 Visible gold in\n \n \n \n \n OP-21-22 @ 279.45 m depth\n \n \n \n \n Company President and Chief Executive Officer Blake\nMorgan commented, \"The drilling to date has progressed extremely\nwell. It is encouraging to be encountering visible gold during our\nmaiden drill program. Over 2,000 meters of core have now been sent for\nassay. Phase two of the planned drilling will begin shortly, in\naddition to a maiden drill campaign on the Arrowhead project. We look\nforward to the assay results and reporting them to our\nshareholders.”\n \n \n \n \n Bazooka Property\n \n \n \n \n The Bazooka property occurs along one of the most\nprolific auriferous structures in the world, the Cadillac-Larder Lake\nbreak/fault. The Cadillac-Larder Lake break/fault, in part, marks the\nboundary between the Archean Abitibi subprovince in the north and the\npredominantly metasedimentary Pontiac subprovince south of the\nfault.\n \n \n \n \n Gold mineralization on the property occurs within\nmixed, up to 60-metre-wide (estimated true width), strong\nquartz-ca...