Rock Chip Assays up to 35.8 g/t Gold

Durrant Pate/Contributor

Canada-based mining company, C3 Metals Inc has announced that it has confirmed gold targets at its Main Ridge project in Clarendon, Jamaica.

C3 Metals said it was pleased to announce that rock chip assay results up to 35.8 grams per tonne or g/t gold from a comprehensive mapping and sampling programme on the company’s 100 per cent-owned Main Ridge project. High-grade Main Ridge rock chip samples are similar in style to and less than one kilometre from the past producing Pennants Gold Mine, also in Clarendon.

The junior minerals exploration company reports that the 3,000-hectare Main Ridge project is contiguous with and approximately 15 kilometres to the west of C3 Metals’ previously announced discovery of an outcropping, large-scale epithermal vein swarm within its 100 per cent-owned 6,000-hectare Arthurs Seat project, also in Clarendon.

Main Ridge Exploration Highlights

Recent and historical rock chip and soil sampling along the Bennett Fault defined a coherent gold anomaly extending 4km southeast and northwest of the former Pennants Gold Mine:

Rock chip sample collected 300m west of historical drill hole MD28 (3.1m at 17.0 g/t Gold1) assayed 35.8 g/t gold

Rio Minho Fault host to strong copper-silver mineralization, defined over a 4km strike length. Channel sample results include:

16.0m at 1.22 per cent copper and 7.8 g/t silver
2.0m at 6.07 per cent copper and 19.4 g/t silver

Strong correlation of radiometrics (potassium anomaly) and gold mineralisation at Main Ridge and Arthurs Seat. Drilling at Arthurs Seat is now under way.

Main Ridge and Arthurs Seat epithermal systems all host similar copper, gold and silver geochemical signature and vein and breccia textures.

Two mineralised splays off the Crawle River-Rio Minho Fault Zone (CRFZ) cut through Main Ridge.

Bennett Fault (gold-silver +- copper mineralisation)
Rio Minho Fault (copper-silver +- gold mineralisation)

Commenting on the results, Dan Symons, C3 Metals president and CEO, said the “results from our exploration programmes at Arthurs Seat and Main Ridge have demonstrated the potential for comparable epithermal gold-copper systems. Furthermore, we know that the nearby Pennants Gold Mine reported intersections of high-grade gold mineralisation over favourable widths”.

He pointed out that “C3 Metals applied for Arthurs Seat drill permits in late September 2022 and received approval two months later”.

Symons added: “We commenced a 25-hole, 5,000m drill programme at Arthurs Seat in December 2022 and are awaiting the first assays from that programme. We are now preparing applications for a Main Ridge drill permit.”

Added Symons: “C3 Mentals s continuing an aggressive mapping and sampling programme along the 20km trend of the CRFZ, from the northern portion of Bellas Gate through Arthurs Seat to Main Ridge. Surface mapping and sampling will continue over the coming months to define drilling priorities. The important CRFZ extends over 20km within our mineral concessions in Jamaica.”

He said the company was “in the process of determining whether district-scale mineralisation extends along the entire CRFZ structure. From what we see from the data to date, that potential exists”.