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West Mining Completes Initial Mapping and Sampling Program on the Athabasca Property, BC
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- West Mining Corp. (“West” or the “Company”) (CSE: WEST) (OTC: WESMF) is pleased to announce that
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- West Mining Corp. (“West” or the “Company”) (CSE: WEST) (OTC: WESMF) is pleased to announce that the initial mapping, sampling and prospecting program has now been completed on the company’s 100% owned Athabasca Property, part of West’s larger Kena Project. The 9000 hectare combined Kena Project, consists of the Kena, Daylight and Athabasca Properties in southeastern British Columbia, which trend along a 20 kilometre long favourable mineralized belt. The Athabasca Property, highlighted by the historic Athabasca Mine represents a northern extension of the Kena Property. The current program includes 57 rock grab and chip samples collected along a 3.2 kilometre mineralized trend, from the Athabasca Mine in the west to the Princess Zone in the southeast. The historic Athabasca Mine (BC Minfile 082FSW168), operating intermittently between 1899 and 1943, graded 30 g/t gold and 10 g/t silver with minor copper, lead and zinc values from 20,219 tonnes milled. The Athabasca vein was drifted on from four underground levels, accessed from 3 portals, with the two upper adits following ore hosted within a permissive contact zone between granodiorite of the Jurassic Nelson intrusives and volcanic rocks of the upper Elise formation. On surface, adjacent to the main Athabasca workings, quartz veins in outcrop are exposed in several locations, both along strike of the main vein and as related extensional-tension veins. To the southeast are numerous semi-parallel quartz veins within the limited workings of the historic Good Enough showing. The Good Enough has two pits and a single short adit hosting prospective mineralized quartz veining within a small development. No historic reports are available but mapping indicates that a quantity of mineralized material has been removed. The historic California Mine workings, although not on West’s claims, lie to the east along a parallel strike to the Athabasca and Good Enough vein structures. The California is another past producer in this area, mined from four separate levels, hosting an economic shear vein system also along the contact between the Nelson intrusives and the Elise volcanics. Historic production reports 1454 tonnes mined grading 48.3 g/t gold and 84.3 g/t silver (BC Minfile 082FSW169). Several zones, both along strike and semi-...