Aiming to Expand High-Grade Mineralization
It’s starting again! Summa Silver (TSXV SSVR / WKN A2P4EE) is returning to its Hughes silver project in Nevada, this time to explore the eastern extension of the Tonopah mining district with drilling. They are beginning at the Ruby discovery, where Summa has already identified high-grade silver mineralization.
The company, led by CEO Galen McNamara, is using a combination of reverse circulation (RC) drilling for shallower depths and diamond core drilling. The RC drill rig is already on site and has started on the first hole. Summa expects the diamond core drill to arrive shortly and advance drilling through the promising target zones.
In total, Summa Silver plans to conduct 7,000 meters of drilling between the Ruby and Sapphire discoveries, 1.3 to 4.2 kilometers east of the Tonopah mining district boundary. It’s a promising location, as the Tonopah district is historically the second-largest silver producer in Nevada – and Nevada itself is often referred to as the ‘Silver State’.
On the Hunt for High-Grade
Summa’s drilling team is starting with a series of extension drills at the Ruby discovery, where previous programs had already uncovered high-grade silver mineralization. At that time, Summa Silver reported, among others:
– 1,450 g/t silver equivalent (8.41 g/t gold, 813 g/t silver) over 3.0 m in SUM23-59,
– 430 g/t silver equivalent (2.47 g/t gold, 243 g/t silver) over 2.0 m in SUM20-10 and
– 392 g/t silver equivalent (3.04 g/t gold, 147 g/t silver) over 3.0 m in SUM23-60.
The goal now is to significantly expand this high-grade mineralization to extend the scope of the known footprint. Accordingly, the drilling will investigate the course and continuity of mineralization from the Ruby discovery at least 600 meters to the east.
As Summa Silver’s CEO Galen McNamara explains, all targets selected for this program on the Hughes project are very promising and, in the company’s view, are among the best available targets in Nevada. Additionally, they already know that the Ruby vein system, located just 1.3 kilometers east of the Belmont Mine, and the immediately surrounding area, which together represent the eastern extension of the productive Tonopah mining district, show significant silver mineralization. Therefore, Summa will, as Mr. McNamara continues, conduct extension drilling around the zones of known mineralization to begin defining the extent of these new zones.
