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Silver Spruce Reports on Diamond Drilling and Joint Venture Pope's Hill REE Project - Trans Labrador Highway, Labrador
Mar. 3, 2011 (TheNewswire.ca) -- Highlights - 1,120 m in ten drill holes completed in the M...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nSilver Spruce Reports on Diamond Drilling and Joint Venture Pope's Hill REE Project - Trans Labrador Highway, Labrador\n\n Mar. 3, 2011 (TheNewswire.ca) -- Highlights- 1,120 m in ten drill holes completed in the MP showing area- results indicate anomalous REE+Y and Zr values over significant widths with narrow high grade sections- JV partner for the Pope's Hill JV is Great Western Minerals Group (TSXV:GWG) March 3, 2011 - Bridgewater, NS - Silver Spruce Resources Inc. (TSXV: SSE) is pleased to announce that the first phase drill program on the MP showing at the Pope's Hill REE property has been completed. A total of 1120 m in 10 drill holes tested the MP showing in the bedrock pit and another close by target on the Trans Labrador Highway (TLH), approximately 100 km from Goose Bay. The first phase drilling was designed to test REE+Y mineralization, bedrock and float samples from the pit, found in the fall of 2010, VLF-EM anomalies thought to represent shear systems, and magnetic anomalies which could reflect the variably magnetic REE+Y mineralization.The drilling tested an approximate 700 m long zone of the known 7 km mineralized trend. Samples from all ten holes have been submitted to the Activation Laboratories prep lab in Goose Bay. Results have been received for all samples from DDH PH-11-1 and 5 selected samples from DDH PH-11-4. The remainder of the results will be reported as received.Results to date indicate anomalous REE+Y values over significant widths in DDH PH-11-1 as follows: 56.6-67.6 m (11 m) - 0.26% TREE+Y and 92.1-100.4 m (8.3 m) - 0.26% TREE+Y including 92.1-93.6 m (1.5 m) at 0.76% TREE+Y. The highest value located in hole 1 was 4.79% TREE+Y in a 0.1 m mafic unit from 66 to 66.1 m which was also elevated in P2O5 at 1.65% and Fe2O3 at 21.3%. In addition strong Zr values generally in the 1,000-2,000 ppm range were noted throughout the drill hole and a 2.4 m zone (58-60.4 m) was intersected carrying > 5 % P2O5 and > 32% Fe2O3 most likely representing a metamorphosed/altered iron formation carrying the mineral apatite.The five selected samples from DDH-11-4 gave: 65.8-68.4 m (2.6 m) at 0.74 % TREE+Y including 66.5 -68.4 m (1.9 m) at 0.98%, including 66.5 -67 m (0.5 m) at 2.62% and including 66.7-66.8 m (0.1 m) at 10.3% TREE+Y. The anomalous units, mafic to granitic in composition, which were selected on the basis ...