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Westhaven Drills 70.6 Metres of 0.31% Nickel and 0.012% Cobalt at BEN
Vancouver, B.C. / ACCESSWIRE / March 4, 2014 / Westhaven Ventures Inc. ( TSX-V:WHN ) is plea...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Westhaven Drills 70.6 Metres of 0.31% Nickel and 0.012% Cobalt at BENVancouver, B.C. / ACCESSWIRE / March 4, 2014 / Westhaven Ventures Inc. (TSX-V:WHN) is pleased to provide preliminary assay results from the 2013 drill program at its BEN property, located midway between the Mount Polley and Gibraltar Mines, approximately 50 km north of Williams Lake, B.C. The inaugural drill program consisted of 3 holes, totaling 425 metres (1,394 feet) of diamond drilling. Subsequently the Company has staked an additional 746 hectares of prospective geology, bringing the total BEN land package to 15,322 hectares. Highlights from the program include: · Assay results from exploratory drill holes confirm both anomalous nickel and gold mineralization · Hole BN13-03 intersected 70.6 metres grading 0.31% Nickel (Ni) and 0.012% Cobalt (Co), which includes 30 metres grading 0.38% Ni and 0.013% Co. · Hole BN13-02 intersected 15.0 metres of 0.18% Ni starting from surface, including two intervals of 1.5 metres grading 0.59 g/t Gold (Au) and 2.8 metres grading 0.57 g/t Au. Gren Thomas, President & CEO of Westhaven stated, “Given the limited drilling to date, we're encouraged to have discovered this near surface nickel mineralization. A broad zone of alteration and geochemical anomalies can be traced over a distance in excess of 10 kilometres and we believe the BEN property has the potential to host a significant amount of nickel. A limited Induced Polarization (IP) Survey led to the targeting of the discovery Hole BN13-03 and this target remains open in all directions.\" Thomas goes on to add, “We lost Hole BN13-01 before hitting our intended target but we still believe there is a viable gold target to be drilled in the North Ben Creek zone. That being said, we are going to be focusing much of our attention on this new nickel discovery.\" Drill holes BN13-01 and BN13-02 were designed to test the near surface projection of the North Ben Creek zone, an area with anomalous gold and pathfinder elements in stream and surface grab samples. Drilling intersected interbedded sequences of mudstones and volcanic breccias. Zones of intense silicification and quartz stockwork containing gold mineralization were encountered in both holes. From bedrock surface to 19.0 metres depth in hole BN13-02, a zone of clay-anhydrite-chlorite altera...