Fourth Hole Of Phase One Reconnaissance Drilling Underway At Westwood

VANCOUVER - VR Resources Ltd. is underway on the fourth hole of the Phase 1, reconnaissance drill program on the 1 x 2 km magnetic anomaly at Westwood, part of the Empire District Project in Northwestern Ontario. The first few core boxes in Hole 004 confirm that the target mafic-ultramafic rock with magmatic sulfide shown in Photo 1 below is present on the opposing side of the complex from the intersection in Hole 002 some 800 m away.

First though, WW24-003, completed to 141m was drilled to target a small chargeability anomaly along the magnetic trend with the highway showing 300m to the southwest, as well as to streamline project logistics for moving the drill to the opposing side of the Westwood magnetic anomaly for Hole 004. Drilling Hole 003 intersected the same leucogabbro that dominated Hole 1 and the top of Hole 2, along with sulfide-bearing mafic magma mixing zones.

Hole 004 now underway is an 800m step out from Hole 2 and has collared into the same coarse mafic-ultramafic rock with disseminated sulfide. Magnetic susceptibility readings on drill core are relatively low for the target mafic intrusive, but it occurs near magnetite-rich rocks. Consequently, we are using shallowly inclined holes to successfully target magnetic gradients on 1VD maps around the large magnetic anomaly, in conjunction with EM conductivity and IP chargeability anomalies.

The mafic intrusion boundaries are inferred from the DCIP resistivity/conductivity on Line 2, labeled as “deeply weathering mafic rock”, and correlates well with the conductivity anomaly from the independent DIGEM airborne survey completed last winter, in December 2023. The same is true on DCIP Line 1, with Hole 002 having cut over 350m of mafic-ultramafic rock with variable magmatic sulfide in a similar coincidence of DCIP conductivity and DIGEM conductivity, with deep IP chargeability below.

CEO Justin Daley, said, “The goal for first pass reconnaissance drilling at the Westwood target was to prove the concept for a large and fertile mafic-ultramafic complex, and it is exciting to see in the first few boxes of this hole the same mafic rock with sulfide that we saw in Hole 002 on the other side of the multiphase intrusive complex. We are now working to expand our understanding for geophysical controls on this coarse mafic rock that we see in the highway showing, and now in Holes 2 and 4 some 800m apart.

The drilling so far at Empire has relied on straightforward logistics afforded by the nearby Trans Canada highway, and despite rapidly changing weather at the onset of winter, we remain on track to finish this program on time and on budget. We look forward to providing further updates as we complete this drill program.”