Potential Drilling Success Near Previous High-Grade Sample Results
In recent days, Heritage Mining (WKN A3DTM6 / CSE HML) has successfully completed its winter drilling program on the Drayton-Black-Lake project. Drilling was conducted in the New Millennium target area on two mineralized vein systems. They are located in close proximity to the prospecting site where the highest-grade grab sample to date, with a gold content of 2,330 g/t, was taken last year.
The plans called for seven drill holes with a total length of 370 meters to be completed. However, during the ongoing work, Heritage’s geologists recognized that they had encountered a favorable mineralized section. The program was therefore expanded at short notice, allowing a total of nine drill holes with a total length of 556 meters to be completed.
Currently, the drilling is complete and the logging of the drill cores, their splitting into two halves, and the subsequent shipment of the samples to the evaluating laboratory are underway. Based on the visual inspection of the cores, Heritage Mining is eagerly anticipating the laboratory evaluations, as multiple occurrences could be identified in seven of the nine holes drilled.
Heritage Mining is Highly Satisfied with the Drilling Work
They show lengths of up to 51.40 meters in the drill cores and are described as a variably mineralized shear zone. It hosts granitic and felsic intrusions as well as massive to semi-massive quartz veins. The occurrence of chalcopyrite with pyrite in chlorite-carbonate alteration with patchy potassium feldspar alteration in quartz veins and wall rock is reminiscent of some of the best gold-bearing sections in the nearby Zone 3 prospect area that were drilled in 2024.
Heritage Mining has thus started the still young year 2025 very well. The drilling on the Drayton-Black-Lake project progressed well and was extended beyond the existing plans because the company encountered favorably mineralized structures over core lengths of up to 51.40 meters. The recognized similarities to the best drilling results from other parts of the project are also encouraging.
Near-Surface Mineralizations Very Similar to Known Deposits at Drayton Black Lake
Another important point is the lengths of the drill holes, because sinking new drill holes and only reaching a total length of 556 meters can only be achieved when testing very near-surface deposits. With an average length of not even 62 meters, the individual drill holes thus do not reach very deep, and yet mineralized structures could be recognized over core lengths of up to 51.40 meters.
Against this background, it quickly becomes clear even to the layperson why Heritage Mining is now eagerly awaiting the exact analysis results from the laboratory and at the same time will vigorously pursue its plans for the next drilling. The focus is on Zone 3 of the Drayton-Black-Lake project, but further drilling is also planned for the Rognan deposit of the Contact Bay project in the first half of 2025.
