Lake Shore Gold Corp (TSX: LSG) announced encouraging results from four new holes and two wedge holes (3,604 metres) from the company's 100 percent owned Bell Creek property, extending the mineralization to a total plunge length of 1,150 metres from surface.
The most significant results are from wedge hole BC-09-24B which intersected 12.63 grams per tonne over 11.65 metres within a broader intercept of 11.09 g/t over 13.75 metres. Included within the 12.63 g/t intercept were 24.73 g/t over 2.20 metres and 23.16 g/t over 1.50 metres.
The mineralization remains open to the east, west and to depth.
Tony Makuch, president and CEO, commented: "The results announced today are very encouraging as they add a significant new dimension to the Bell Creek project identifying a large gold system at depth where drilling has demonstrated excellent grades and widths.
“The system, which plunges eastward towards our wholly owned Schumacher property, where there is limited past drilling, has now been identified to a total plunge length of 1,150 metres from surface and 500 metres along strike and remains open at depth and along strike,” he added.
Drilling at Bell Creek is ongoing, and will be accelerated with five drills active on the property. One drill is testing shallow targets west of the mine workings, two drills are involved with resource definition in the central part of the main easterly plunging system, one drill is doing a wedge hole above BC-09-24B and a fifth drill is working on wide spaced step out holes to test for additional extensions to known mineralization.
Work is progressing well on the underground advanced exploration program at Bell Creek, including concurrent development of the ramp from surface to the Bell Creek mineralization, and dewatering and refurbishment of the Bell Creek shaft and mine. It plans to develop Bell Creek into Lake Shore Gold's second mine complex in Timmins.