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Silver Spruce Diamond Drilling At Tote Brook Intersects Shallow Multi-Stage Vein Targets; Mystery Au Project Technical Update Adds Optimism For Exploration Advancement
BEDFORD, NS / ACCESSWIRE / August 26, 2024 / (TSXV:SSE) Silver Spruce Resources, Inc. ("Silver S...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Silver Spruce Diamond Drilling At Tote Brook Intersects Shallow Multi-Stage Vein Targets; Mystery Au Project Technical Update Adds Optimism For Exploration AdvancementBEDFORD, NS / ACCESSWIRE / August 26, 2024 / (TSXV:SSE) Silver Spruce Resources, Inc. (\"Silver Spruce\" or the \"Company\") announces the completion of its initial diamond drilling program at the Tote Brook target and provides an exploration update on the 602-claim Mystery Au project (\"Mystery\") (see Figure 1).\"Our recent exploration programs comprised rock and soil sampling, structural mapping and regional till sampling for initial drill target generation. The Company then completed a 4-hole, 750-metre program to target the shallow down-dip projection of the surface vein exposures at Tote Brook\", said Greg Davison, Silver Spruce VP Exploration and Director. \"Drilling intersected numerous, variably oriented, chronologically late, simple to multi-phase quartz±chalcedony and/or carbonate veins and breccias ranging from centimetre scale (<10-120cm) to several metres.\"Figure 1. Map of the core and southern areas of the Marilyn property regional geological map and sampling locations. Tote Brook target located in east and northeast-trending lineaments with quartz and calcite veins and breccias. Geology units with contacts shown from east to west - Mount Peyton intrusion (red), Badger Group (pale brown) and Botwood Group (brown). \"Only one gold-bearing interval (0.973 g/t Au) was reported in Hole MT-23-001 from a 0.5-metre interval (120.65 m -121.15 m within 6.9 metres of carbonate-dominant breccia veins from 115.75 m - 122.65 m). The remaining assays for the four holes reported up to 26 ppb Au (~0.03 g/t Au). Notwithstanding the current drilling assay results from these shallow test holes, a number of multi-stage epizonal/epithermal veins were intersected, with complex internal layered, bladed, massive to vuggy silica textures, K-feldspar, hematite, weak to minor sulphides (pyrite, chalcopyrite, stibnite, sphalerite) and brecciation though with no visible gold, based on our early interpretive efforts on the Tote Brook structure. Additional work on mineralogical and textural details of the vein features, from the drilling and the surface exposures from Tote Brook and other known targets, is planned to verify the context of the veins, breccias and structure...