Field Program on Howell property, southeast British Columbia:
The Howell property, 25 miles southeast of Fernie, B.C. consists of the 88 unit Howell claims recently acquired from Cominco and Placer Dome and the 18 unit YSOO claim acquired by staking in Nov., 1998. Eastfield holds a 100% interest in the combined property subject to the Cominco/ Placer Dome agreement. The southern boundary of the claim block is within 2 miles of the northern border of the Crowsnest property, also owned by Eastfield and presently under option to International Curator.
Previous exploration by Cominco, Placer Dome and Phelps Dodge on the Howell claims has outlined a large area of gold mineralization related to syenite intrusions and occurring within limestone and calcareous sediments.
Highlights of prior exploration include drill hole HRC25 which returned 190 feet grading 1.23 g/t gold, hosted in limestone. Substantial intervals of sub-economic gold values were intersected in a number of other drill holes in both syenite and limestone (e.g. 0.48 g/t gold over 240 feet, 0.44 g/t gold over 210 feet and 0.41 g/t gold over 135 feet). Large areas of anomalous gold soil geochemistry have had little or no follow-up.
The fall 1999 program is concentrating on completing rock sampling in areas which have had little or no prior work. Of particular interest is the exploration potential of the numerous diatreme breccias. The diatremes were previously thought to be post-mineral and were largely ignored. Recent sampling completed on one of these bodies returned a consistent anomalous result with two of three samples taken exceeding 0.5 g/t gold. Several diatreme bodies have been documented on the claims with the largest one exceeding 500 feet by 1,650 feet in size.
It is anticipated that the current work program will continue until November, 1999.
Bill Morton, P. Geo.
President, Eastfield |
