{"id":1179656,"date":"2020-04-21T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1021226"},"modified":"2020-04-21T17:00:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:00:39","slug":"quebec-precious-metals-discovers-new-zone-at-sakami-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1179656","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Precious Metals discovers new zone at Sakami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drill results from\u00a0Quebec Precious Metals\u2019\u00a0wholly-owned 140-sq.-km Sakami project, 570 km north of Val d\u2019Or, Quebec, suggest a new mineralized zone, the La Pointe Extension area. <\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\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>This zone has been traced over approximately 900 metres of strike, to a depth of 215 metres with widths ranging from 10 metres to 80 metres.<\/p>\n<p>The La Pointe Extension zone is 2 km southwest of the La Pointe area, which has previously been defined over a length of 900 metres and down to a depth of 400 metres.<\/p>\n<p>Drill highlights include 80.1 metres of 1.15 g\/t gold and 7.6 metres of 2.91 g\/t gold from La Pointe Extension as well as 11 metres of 1.04 g\/t gold from the La Pointe zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe discovery of the La Pointe Extension is the most significant development on the project since the creation of the company,\u201d Normand Champigny, the company\u2019s CEO, said in a release. \u201cWe look forward to drilling again and demonstrat(ing) the very significant exploration potential of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>QPM has a 25,000 metre drill program scheduled for this year with a follow-up geophysical survey planned over La Pointe extension to refine drill targets<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Additional assays are pending \u2013 the company expects drilling at the site to restart in June. The provincial government has declared mineral exploration activities non-essential in light of covid-19, and indicated that these can resume in May. <\/p>\n<p>QPM has a 25,000 metre drill program scheduled for this year with a follow-up geophysical survey planned over La Pointe extension to refine drill targets.<\/p>\n<p>La Pointe and La Pointe Extension, in the central part of Sakami, are within a 13-km mineralized trend, which also contains the Simon showing.<\/p>\n<p>Sakami, within the 150-km long James Bay greenstone belt in Quebec\u2019s James Bay region, covers 23 km of a volcanic-sedimentary contact. The project is 90 km northwest of\u00a0Newmont\u2019s<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00c9l\u00e9onore gold mine.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec Precious Metals was formed in 2018 from the combination of Canada Strategic Metals, Matamec Explorations and Sphinx Resources.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article first appeared in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianminingjournal.com\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Canadian Mining Journal (opens in a new tab)\">Canadian Mining Journal<\/a>)  <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new zone has been traced over approximately 900 metres of strike.<\/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\/1179656"}],"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=1179656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179657,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179656\/revisions\/1179657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}