C3 Metals awaiting permit to start drilling

Durrant Pate/Contributor

There is more good news coming out of the Canada-based company, C3 Mental Incorporated, which is prospecting for gold and copper in Jamaica.

The company is reporting that its exploration continues to expand the recently discovered epithermal gold-copper vein swarm and overall copper-gold-silver mineralisation at its wholly owned Arthurs Seat Project in Jamaica. C3 Metals reports that its highest grade rock chip gold assay to date at 29.8 grams per tonne, or g/t. in epithermal style mineralisation.

Epithermal style quartz veining has now been mapped and sampled over a 5.0 km by 3.0 km area, occurring within a much broader 8.0 km by 4.5 km footprint of copper-gold-silver mineralisation.

Geologists have recently discovered epithermal-style sheeted quartz veins south of the Crawle River-Rio Minho Fault Zone (CRFZ), near Frankfield, Clarendon.

Drilling permit being sought

An initial 5,000-metre drill programme, comprised of 25 holes from 10 drill pad locations has been designed to test the vertical and lateral continuity of gold-copper mineralisation. A drilling application has been submitted for Arthurs Seat, which is one of four Jamaican projects owned 100 per cent by C3 Metals and is located adjacent its Bellas Gate project in St Catherine.

C3 Metals intends to immediately commence drilling, once permits are received.

Arthurs Seat exploration highlights

• Copper-gold-silver mineralised zone expanded to 8.0 km by 4.5 km, including 113 rock chip assays grading greater than one per cent copper (see Figure 1)
• Epithermal quartz vein and breccia zone expanded to 5.0 km by 3.0 km, including 28 rock chip samples grading greater than 1 g/t gold (see Figure 2)
• Latest batch of rock chip samples assayed up to 29.8 g/t gold and 5.7 per cent copper
• Epithermal quartz veins confirmed south of the important CRFZ
• Multiple, discrete zones of high-grade copper-silver expanded in the northwest project area
• Copper-gold mineralisation confirmed over 30 km between Bellas Gate – Arthurs Seat – Main Ridge

Commenting on the positive news, C3 Metals President and CEO Dan Symon stated that “the discovery of veins south of the CRFZ opens up the possibility for the epithermal system to continue on to our Bellas Gate and Main Ridge Projects”.

Symon added: “Incidentally, our search for historical records indicates C3 Metals is the first company to discover and evaluate this district scale mineralised system.”

Mapping results

He pointed out that, “when we first announced the grassroots discovery of an outcropping epithermal vein swarm at Arthurs Seat less than two months ago, we had mapped veins to a 3.0 km by 2.0 km area within a much broader 7.0 km by 4.0 km copper-gold-silver footprint. In a very short period of time, the vein swarm has now been expanded to a 5.0 km by 3.0 km area within an 8.0 km by 4.5 km footprint”.

Geological mapping, supported by spectral interpretation and radiometric survey data, expanded the zone of epithermal gold-copper veining to 5.0km by 3.0km. Assays from epithermal style quartz veins reported up to 29.8 g/t gold, which also contain significant secondary copper species (see Figure 3).

Multiple, discrete zones of high-grade copper mineralization occur to the northwest of the epithermal gold-copper vein swarm, returning up to 5.66 per cent copper and 14.4 g/t silver in the latest batch of rock chip assays.