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Vior Commences Initial 5,000m Drill Program at Its Belleterre Gold Project
MONTREAL, QC / ACCESSWIRE / November 18, 2021 / Vior Inc. ("Vior" or the "Corporation"), (TSX...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Vior Commences Initial 5,000m Drill Program at Its Belleterre Gold ProjectMONTREAL, QC / ACCESSWIRE / November 18, 2021 / Vior Inc. (\"Vior\" or the \"Corporation\"), (TSX-V:VIO, FRANKFURT:VL51) is pleased to announce that it has begun its initial Phase 1 5,000-metre (\"m\") drill program at its promising high-grade Belleterre gold project (\"Belleterre\") in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, located 95 kilometeres (\"km\") south of Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. Belleterre consists of 531 claims over 29,129 hectares (291.3 sq km), forming a district-scale exploration package extending over a strike length of 37 km and includes the option to acquire 100% of the former high-grade producing Belleterre gold mine, which produced over 750,000 oz. at 10.73 grams per tonne (\"g/t\") gold and 95,000 oz at 1.37 g/t silver, between 1936 and 1959 (source: Sigeom MERN).Vior's President & CEO, Mark Fedosiewich, states: \"We are excited to begin this initial Phase 1 drill program at our promising Belleterre gold project. In less than a year after consolidating this highly prospective district-scale mining camp, our technical team has delivered as promised. This includes; having recently completed detailed data compilation, undertaking two months of field prospection with detailed geophysics, and completing a new 3D geological model with drill targeting. This systematic exploration strategy has now provided us with numerous high quality drill targets in the brownfield areas of the project, where we have been able to recently confirm the high-grade gold component at surface. We have implemented a structured strategy to rapidly advance Belleterre in the next 12 months and we look forward to initial drill results.\"Overview of the Drill Program:The initial diamond core drilling campaign will focus primarily on testing the historic mine horizon trend, a 6 km-long corridor which hosted the past producing and historic high-grade Belleterre gold mine and the Aubelle gold deposits. This program will consist of 10 planned drill holes, with lengths ranging from 250 to 800 m, and is designed to achieve the following objectives (see figure 1 & 2):Testing extensions laterally and at depth of some of the known mineralized zones at the Belleterre and Aubelle deposits,Testing some of the new high potential exploration targets in the Conway zone...