BeMetals drills 0.47 g/t gold over 30 metres at Kato, Japan
BeMetals Corp. [ BMET-TSXV; BMTLF-OTCQB; 10I-FSE] has further extended the Seta vein with recently received assay results for drill holes KT22-13 to KT22-15 from its continuing diamond drilling program at the Kato gold project in Hokkaido. The company also provides a summary of progress for all its Kazan gold projects in Japan.
KT22-11: Seta Vein returned 11.50 metres grading 6.42 g/t gold, including: 8.70 metres of 7.80 g/t gold, including 4.52 metres of 11.88 g/t gold. KT22-12: Seta Vein returned 26.10 metres of 3.06 g/t gold, including 10.20 metres of 4.88 g/t gold, including 5.05 metres of 5.76 g/t gold.
KT22-13: Seta Vein returned 30.00 metres of 0.47 g/t gold, including 5.25 metres of 1.25 g/t gold. KT22-15: Seta Vein returned 17.50 metres of 0.29 g/t gold, extends Seta Vein 400 metres from KT22-11. KT22-15: Kamitake Vein returned 3.67 metres of 0.86 g/t Au
Todoroki Project: Drill targets identified for testing in the 2023 field season. Such targets, if successfully drilled, provide material extensions to the previously mined Todoroki vein swarm.
Konomai Project: Soil and rock chip sampling completed near historical Otowa mine
Tashiro Project: Airborne drone magnetic survey scheduled to start in January 2023
Hokusatsu Project: Phase of reconnaissance mapping completed
John Wilton, President and CEO, stated, “We are pleased that the company’s latest drilling results at the Kato Project successfully extended the Seta Vein Zone some 400 metres along strike from the company’s first intersection in drill hole KT22-11. In addition, hole KT22-15 has also extended the recently identified Kamitake Vein Zone approximately 350 metres along strike from its first intersection in hole KT22-12. Both the Seta and Kamitake veins appear to be continuing along strike to the southeast for a considerable distance.
“Drilling has been paused for a short winter break and will resume next month to test both depth and grade zonation of the Kato mineralization. This phase of drilling will also test exploration targets to the southeast, along strike from our 2022 drilling program.”
The drilling to-date at the Kato Project has already successfully extended the high-grade gold zone, along strike of the Seta Vein Zone some 160 metres from the historical intersections of MMAJ completed in the early 1990s.
The Kato Gold Project is BeMetals’ most advanced, of five exploration projects in Japan based on the amount of available historical drilling information in central Hokkaido.
At the company’s Konomai Project in northern Hokkaido, a soil and rock chip sampling program was completed near the historical Otowa Gold Mine on the Konomai property. When the full set of results are available these will be integrated with existing data to generate targets for follow-up exploration.
In Kyushu, BeMetals received permission from the civil aviation authority and will complete an airborne drone magnetic survey at the Tashiro Project. Also, the Company will undertake a mapping and sampling program at the Hokusatsu Project.