{"id":1132399,"date":"2019-08-13T17:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T22:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=999221"},"modified":"2019-08-13T17:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T22:19:24","slug":"sun-metals-expands-421-zone-at-stardust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1132399","title":{"rendered":"Sun Metals expands 421 zone at Stardust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent drilling at Sun Metals\u2019 Stardust project in north-central British Columbia confirms the continuity and strength of mineralization at the project\u2019s 421 zone, the company says.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The junior reported intervals as long as 58 metres grading 2.49% copper, 2.61 g\/t gold and 44.3 g\/t silver. That intercept was part of a 107-metre interval (starting at 546 metres depth) of 1.64% copper, 1.77 g\/t gold, 28.6 g\/t silver, and 0.03% zinc in hole 430D.<\/p>\n<p>Hole 428D returned 142.35 metres (from 493.5 metres downhole) of 1.22% copper, 1.28 g\/t gold, 21.8 g\/t silver and 0.41% zinc.<\/p>\n<p>All three stepout holes reported were drilled downdip and to the south of discovery hole 421, which returned 100 metres of 2.51% copper, 3.03 g\/t gold and 52.5 g\/t silver late last year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sun-Metals-421-4-768x1024-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-999222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sun-Metals-421-4-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sun-Metals-421-4-768x1024-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption> Vice President of Exploration Ian Neill holding core from drill hole 421. Credit: Sun Metals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>True widths have not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p>The company has had two drills onsite at Stardust conducting directional diamond drilling. More than 5,220 metres in 11 holes have so far been completed.<\/p>\n<p>The Canyon Creek copper-gold skarn zone at Stardust has indicated resources of 985,000 tonnes grading 1.34% copper, 0.62% zinc, 1.59 g\/t gold and 36.8 g\/t silver, plus inferred resources of 2 million tonnes grading 1.24% copper, 0.14% zinc, 1.72 g\/t gold and 30.5 g\/t silver. The 421 zone lies outside of the established resource.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article first appeared in the&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianminingjournal.com\/\" ><em>Canadian Mining Journal<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company reported intervals as long as 58 metres grading 2.49% copper, 2.61 g\/t gold and 44.3 g\/t silver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132400,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132399\/revisions\/1132400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}