Gentor Resources and its Turkish partner the Besler Group
announce assay results from the final 12 holes of their initial 19
diamond drill hole program at the Hacimeter VMS Project near
Erzurum, eastern Turkey. These
results confirm the presence of a stacked massive sulphide VMS
system adjacent to previously discovered and drilled stringer VMS
mineralisation at Hacimeter. Further core assay highlighted results
include:
GA-H8 - 5.30 metres at 1.33% Cu, 0.42g/t Au from
153.70 metres depth
GA-H9 - 4.70 metres at 1.93% Cu, 0.24g/t Au from 96.20
metres depth
GA-H11 - 3.60 metres at 1.80% Cu from 142.50 metres
depth
GA-H12 - 3.80 metres at 4.24%Cu, 3.20% Zn and 2.67g/t
Au from 29.80 metres depth
GA-H15 - 2.90 metres at 3.94% Zn, 0.32g/t Au from
147.90 metres depth
GA-H16 - 6.15 metres at 1.22% Cu, 3.60g/t Au from 24.75
metres depth.
Several newly intersected shallow, high-grade sulphide
zones indicate potential mineralisation extensions to the south and
east. Of particular interest are the elevated zinc and gold
grades in some drilled intervals.
TORONTO,
Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Gentor
Resources Inc. ("Gentor" or the "Company") (TSX-V - "GNT" &
OTCQB - "GNTOF") and its partner the Besler Group have finalised
the drilling results from their successful first phase program at
the Hacimeter VMS Project, in eastern Turkey. The results from the first seven holes
of this program including all drill hole location data were
reported in Gentor's press release dated August 28, 2012. For details see the
Company's website: www.gentorresources.com
The results from the first seven holes provided
good confirmation of the integrity of the earlier Besler shallow
drilling in the northern areas shown in Figure 1, whilst the
remainder of the holes reported in this press release targeted
faulted geophysical extensions at depth to both the south east and
south west. The best drill intercepts were related to
geophysical anomalies from both IP and shallow TEM and were related
to massive sulphide, proximal stringer mineralisation, plus
peripheral semi-massive sulphide and stringer mineralisation.
The drill pattern was designed to test the main
anomalous area on approximately 50 metre centres.
Geologically the drilling identified a stacked, sub-horizontal
copper-zinc-gold massive sulphide and stringer zone system that has
been down-faulted by a minimum of 100 metres from both the northern
block mineralisation and the southern gossanous zone mineralisation
(Long Section A-A' as Figure 2 and orthogonal Cross Section B-B' as
Figure 3). The system is hosted by altered pillow and massive
basalts. Mineralisation comprises two horizons of massive
sulphide approximately 20 metres apart centred on GA-H8, which
grade laterally into pyritic semi-massive sulphide (best shown on
the oblique Long Section C-C' in
Figure 4). In the upper horizon stringer mineralisation is
dominant, whilst the lower horizon contains more massive sulphide
with zinc and gold associated with the copper.
One of the more impressive copper-gold massive
sulphide zones occurs down dip in GA-H12 below a gossan that
exhibits combined trench results of 7.0 metres at 5.5g/t Au and
44.8g/t Ag within a related elevated copper-zinc-arsenic XRF soil
geochemical zone that extends for several hundred metres along an
up-faulted block along the southern part of the prospect. This
massive sulphide target is limited at depth due to faulting on the
north side but is open along strike.
A further shallow high-grade massive sulphide
zone intersected in GA-H16 within the southern block is open in
three directions and is likely to be an eastern strike extension of
the deeper southern block massive sulphide system.
In summary, this successful drilling program has
clearly outlined significant high-grade massive sulphide extensions
to the shallow stringer-type VMS system initially discovered at
Hacimeter by Besler in 2010-2011. Further drilling is
required to extend the defined mineralised zones and to better
correlate the various block faulted segments.
Table 1. Summary of Significant
Intersections - September
2012
Hole No |
Min Type |
From
(m) |
To
(m) |
Intercept*
(m) |
Cu % |
Zn % |
Au (g/t) |
Ag (g/t) |
GA-H8 |
MS-SMS |
122.00 |
124.00 |
2.00 |
0.82 |
0.34 |
0.64 |
8.00 |
and: |
QVS |
128.00 |
130.00 |
2.00 |
1.98 |
< 0.1 |
0.57 |
15.50 |
and: |
MS-SMS |
153.70 |
159.00 |
5.30 |
1.33 |
0.14 |
0.42 |
2.68 |
incl |
|
153.70 |
155.00 |
1.30 |
2.24 |
|