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Nevada project yields high-grade sampling results

20th February 2015

  

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Diversified mineral exploration and development company Sunrise Resources has attained further high-grade sampling results at its Bay State silver project, in the Eureka district of Nevada.

“The results highlight the potential for unworked high-grade silver mineralisation and confirm the occurrence of zinc mineralisation which had never been recognised at Bay State before our acquisition of the project,” Sunrise Resources executive chairperson Patrick Cheetham said in statement in January.

These results are derived from a second sampling campaign carried out in November 2014, and followed on the results from the first (October 2014) sampling campaign of the main Chihuahua-Buckeye vein system, which reported high-grade silver results with the best chip sample having a 1.5 m grading of 6.3% zinc, 6.6% lead, 0.3% copper, 0.16% tungsten and 0.006% silver. The tests sampled an average of 403 g/t of silver.

In the second campaign, sampling focused on the Chihuahua Splay and the Lincoln Vein.

Two samples taken from narrow open stopes on the Lincoln Vein tested at 10 g/t, or 0.29 oz/t, and 133 g/t, or 3.9 oz/t, of silver.

A sample from the roof of the main stope of the Chihuahua Splay tested 87 g/t, or 2.5 oz/t, of silver, while sampling in a mine tunnel crosscut heading east from the splay vein has revealed unworked silver- and zinc-rich mineralisation between the main Chihuahua and Chihuahua Splay veins.

The Chihuahua Splay is a mineralised fault that splits off from the main Chihuahua vein at higher elevations on the north side of Mining Canyon. In the upper workings on the Chihuahua Splay, historical mine extraction focused on the steeply west-dipping splay fault.

Follow-up sampling will now aim to access the main underground workings of the Chihuahua Vein beyond the rockfall in the Chihuahua main adit, as these workings are known to extend along the Chihuahua vein system for 200 m beyond the northern limit of the company’s current sampling.

Meanwhile, two new zinc/silver and silver discoveries have been made and are being explored elsewhere in the Eureka district.

At the Lone Mountain project, publicly traded Canadian exploration company Goldspike Exploration recently reported a number of thick high-grade zinc drill intersections.

Nearer to the Bay State project, and 37 km north along the same structural trend, Canadian zinc, silver and gold exploration company Cypress Development Corporation is exploring the Gunman zinc/silver project.

Edited by Leandi Kolver
Creamer Media Deputy Editor

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