QUEBEC — What Wesdome Gold Mines of Toronto calls "strong grades" from drilling at its Kiena gold mine near Val d'Or might better be called "bonanza grades". The best intersection in the Schist zone was 201.87 g/t Au over a true width of 2.7 metres. Even cut to 34.28 g/t, the grade was 28.82 g/t Au.
This and other good grades were discovered in the Schist zone, an east-west striking, vertically dipping area situated 30 metres north of the VC zone. Mineralization consists of coarse-grained free gold in quartz stockwork veining. The quartz veining is in a strongly albitized basalt or diorite within a strongly sheared komatiite or talc-carbonate schist. The zone displays good continuity from level 50 to level 59 (90 metres) with strike lengths of about 50 metres. Wesdome intends to develop the zone immediately as a sweetener to blend with lower grade material from the current mining sequence.
Detailed results from the latest drilling campaign are available in the May 27, 2009, news release posted at www.Wesdome.com.
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