Ram Zone Trencing Yields 13.73 Meters of 71.3 g/t Silver at La Cigarra Silver
VANCOUVER - International Northair Mines Ltd. reported exploration update on its La Cigarra silver project, located in north central Mexico. The Company has conducted further trenching on its Ram Zone and results continue to be positive and support the potential of this new discovery.
The Ram Zone was discovered by Northair's geologists as part of the property wide mapping and sampling program and lies 750 meters west of the main La Cigarra mineral resource. Soil sampling here has defined a 1,000 meter long north-south striking area of potential with silver soil anomaly widths varying from 50 to 250 meters. As previously reported, returned a 35.45-meter interval grading 67.3 g/t silver (including 16.20 meters of 99.6 g/t silver and 4.85 meters of 141.4 g/t silver).
To follow up the prior sampling and trenching results at the Ram Zone, crews excavated two additional trenches approximately 40 meters- and 140 meters-long, respectively, south of Trench #1. Sample results of the two trenches are as follows: Trench #2 - 43.03 meters @ 32.2 g/t silver including two intervals of 13.80 meters @ 23.8 g/t silver and 13.73 meters of 71.3 g/t silver; Trench #3 - 13.60 meters @ 13.6 g/t silver including 2.60 meters of 32.8 g/t silver and 29.70 meters grading 14.2 g/t silver including 13.69 meters of 21.4 g/t silver.
As a further test of the Ram Zone, the Company excavated nine (9) 6 meter-long sample pits approximately 150 meters south of Trench #3. These pits were positioned to expose bedrock over a 200 meter-wide zone where previous soil sampling yielded highly anomalous silver values. Sampling of the nine (9) test pits returned silver values varying from 0.7 g/t to 16.7 g/t with the average of all nine pits being 7.84 g/t.
The Company considers these recent results very encouraging as they continue to develop the potential of the Ram Zone and lends strong confirmation of previous sample results. It is becoming apparent that the Ram Zone is a large, continuous mineralized silver system, which remains open along strike to the north and south and down dip to the west. Field crews are surveying road access into this area in anticipation of follow up exploration programs.
"The Ram Zone is an exciting new discovery with the potential to significantly expand the La Cigarra silver resource and add to the economics of the Project, said Fred Hewett, President & CEO of North air. "Ram offers considerable exploration upside to complement the potential that already exists within the strong main La Cigarra mineralized system."