Silver Queen
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Houston BC
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New Nadina Explorations Limited (TSX VENTURE: NNA) announces the 2011 drilling at the Silver Queen property south of Houston BC has been completed. Drilling has encountered significant intersections of porphyry-style mineralization with visible chalcopyrite and molybdenite. Core logging and geotechnical processing, along with core sawing and submission of samples for analyses should be completed in 2-3 weeks.
September 14, 2011
PAST PRODUCTION INDICATES NEW POTENTIAL AT SILVER QUEEN PROPERTY, CENTRAL B.C.The discovery of an economic mine is found through the determination of the management team.
The bounty of the earth can only be released when one accepts the challenge to solve its mysteries.
In the years since its discovery in 1912, repeated attempts to expand the potential of the Silver Queen were undertaken. Ellen Clements, president, set out to find the elusive source feeding the property’s numerous veins. This property is in an active mining region with supportive infrastructure and primed for renewed exploration. The recent rapid advances in ground and airborne geophysics were utilized.
ZTEM airborne of 700 line km followed by ground geophysics in July 2011 using the Titan 24 DCIP & MT over selected areas produced targets. Two targets connected to the ‘inner core’ were the first focus. From the raw data, amazing visuals in 3D format were produced.
Drilling commenced Sept 3, 2011 and will continue until October 15th. Two drills will test both the extensive vein “Titan Target A” and the porphyry “Titan Target B”. Both are blind targets not previously tested by diamond dril.
Target B is of significant size, has a conductive response with an associated high chargeability
Target A is part of a 2.5 km long trend mapped by the ZTEM survey and characterized as electrically resistive and chargeable by the Titan 24 DCIP and MT system.
Diamond drill holes (minimum of 500m each) this fall on Target B are designed to test as the east – west extent at depth and then test on section. Drilling to date has surpassed expectations and confirms that perseverance with the use of state of the art geophysical techniques does truly prove the promise of reward in a former producer.
July 21, 2011
An extensive 2011 exploration program is underway looking for new and larger targets where airborne ZTEM geophysics was followed by Titan 24 IP (Induced Polarization), DCIP and MT and completed July 20th.
A preliminary interpretation of the data has identified two new geophysical targets south and east of the former producing No 3 Vein at the Silver Queen mine.
The first – the Titan A target – is part of a two and half kilometer long trend mapped by the ZTEM survey. The known Silver Queen vein system sits at the north-west end and central part of the trend and the Titan A target sits close to the south-east end of this trend. The Titan A target is characterized as electrically resistive and chargeable and is interpreted to be a potential vein type system of the Silver Queen type.
Close to the Titan A target, to the east and below it, is the Titan B target. This is a conductive zone, with an associated high chargeability. The geophysical character of the Titan B target indicates that it could be a buried porphyry type bulk tonnage deposit. Preliminary depth estimates to the top of the Titan B target are on the order of 350 meters. This target is a blind geophysical target and can only be tested by drilling. The geophysical interpretation of the geological setting of the Titan B target is that it is close to an intrusive stock-like body that sits below the Silver Queen Vein system, and that it is located in a jog of a large regional fault zone. This jog may be a zone of accommodation as the regional structure passes close to the stock-like body.
Both the Titan A and Titan B targets are untested by historical drilling to the best knowledge of the New Nadina Exploration team. There were eight Titan 24 lines run, results from the four lines (3.6km each) has resulted in these two targets. Two lines extending over the south end of Owen Lake have not shown target potential. Modeling of the two lines covering George and Cole Lake areas are pending.
ZTEM is a new natural source airborne electromagnetic method operated by Geotech airborne of Mississauga, Ontario. It can routinely penetrate to depths in excess of one kilometer and is particularly suited to the exploration for bulk tonnage disseminated porphyry type targets. It is also sensitive to large resistive zones such as silicified vein systems. Titan24 is high powered, state of the art, deep penetrating induced polarization and magnetotelluric ground based system operated by Quantec Geoscience of Toronto Ontario. Depths of investigation greater than 300 meters are routinely achieved with the Titan24 system.
Interpretation of the new geophysical data acquired over the Silver Queen project is ongoing at the Advanced Geophysical Interpretation Centre of Mira Geoscience in Vancouver, British Columbia for New Nadina. The ZTEM, aeromagnetic, and Titan24 data will be used in conjunction with the ongoing geological mapping and surface prospecting program at the Silver Queen project to direct the 8,000 meter summer drill program planned for this year at the Silver Queen project by New Nadina Explorations Ltd. Peter Kowalczyk P.Geo., a qualified person has reviewed the July 21, 2011 news release within the terms of NI 43-101 standards.
During 2010, a permanent camp facility was installed at the Silver Queen mine site and a program of prospecting, soil sampling and geophysics were conducted followed by a 4,109 meter drill program. Twenty six holes (NQ2 sized core) were completed in six areas of drilling mainly extending and deepening known veins.
May 7, 2010
The Silver Queen property is located south of Houston, BC, on the forest service road to the Huckleberry Mine in the Omineca Mining Division. The SQ (Silver Queen) property consists of 17 Crown Granted mineral claims and four staked claims covering approximately 3,187 hectares.
Recent staking of 10 DQ (Dancing Queen) claims increased the tenure by an additional 3,968 hectares. Reclamation on old and previous workings consisted of covering and repairing raises and filling in old trenches. Those to remain open were contoured to safe and acceptable levels and those having no further interest were covered and re-contoured to approximate the original surface.
The property has been the focus of many exploration and development programs since its initial discovery in 1912. The Bradina JV took the property into production during 1972 – 1973. In the late 1980’s an extensive development and exploration project was conducted consisting of surface and underground diamond drilling and lateral development on three underground levels. Under the direction of Houston Metals Corporation, Cominco Engineering Services Ltd. conducted a feasibility study in 1988. The metal recoveries with the technology available at that time precluded a production decision. Occurrences of silver, gold, copper, lead, zinc, gallium, indium and germanium have been established by previous work. Increased metal prices, along with recent site visits and review of data, have motivated the Company to focus on taking this property forward.
As part of a structural study conducted in 1998, Dr. G. Millar of EraMaptec concluded that the property still has considerable exploration potential, and that previous exploration efforts paid insufficient attention to structural considerations. As the principal known mineralized structure on the property, the No. 3 Vein should be the prime focus of exploration, the main area of interest being the southern portion of the vein where grades appear to be increasing. Exploration should be directed down dip in the area of the vein inflection and also along strike to the south. The possibility of encountering as yet undiscovered hanging wall and footwall structures also needs to be investigated. Possible extensions of the No. 3 Vein beyond the Cole Creek and Chisholm faults should be investigated. The vein is known to exist beyond the Cole Creek fault, where it was intersected by a surface drill hole in 1970 at a depth of 1435 feet (437 metres) and by an underground drill hole in 1987. In addition to his comments on the No. 3 vein, Dr. Millar made a number of general recommendations concerning future exploration on the property. His recommendation that information for the property be assembled into a 3-D visualisation software package is presently being implemented by the company. The large volume of data input into 3D software will add to our exploration tools. A property-wide geophysical survey (mag/em) over the property using modern, high resolution techniques will be undertaken with the objective being the delineation of larger structures. Dr. Millar also recommends further drilling of the Cole and Chisholm structures and the area of intense alteration encountered at the Borrow Pit.
The George Lake Lineament, which appears to be a major structure with characteristics similar to the #3 Vein, is also deserving of further testing. The George Lake Vein was intersected by the Bulkley Cross-cut at a depth of 170 metres below surface and limited underground and surface drilling was conducted at that time, but most of the structure remains untested.
The Camp Vein system was drilled extensively during the late 1980s. Due to the absence of surface exposure and the considerable structural complexities of the vein system caused by faulting, a satisfactory model of the vein structures was never produced. Dr Millar’s study suggests that the strike of the veins may differ from that which was assumed during the original drilling and that further investigations of the area should be based on that hypothesis, beginning with the construction of new cross-sections perpendicular to the proposed strike of the system. This could be aided by re-logging of drill core paying particular attention to vein and fault relationships and geometries, re-processing of existing geophysical data using modern processing techniques and further testing using oriented core drilling.
A 3 to 4 year program is being developed based on the above recommendations and results of specific components of the plan. We expect to be ready to conduct the mag/em airborne survey by late May setting the timeframe for geochemical sampling, surface geophysics followed by drilling.
Jim Hutter, P.Geo. is the Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 on the Silver Queen project,and has reviewed and approved the applicable content of this release.