Here's what 12m @ 193 g/t gold looks like

Pilot Gold hits more impressive drill intercepts in Turkey. Are more to come?

Author: Kip Keen
Posted: Tuesday , 04 Dec 2012

SEATTLE, WA (MINEWEB) -

Pilot Gold drilled a nice looking intercept with 12 metres @ 193 g/t gold and coarse gold grains on show.

Picture here.

The drill intercept in question comes from Pilot Gold’s Kucukdag gold project in Turkey and stands as one of the highest grade intercepts it has hit on the project over such a sustained multi-metre true width.

In the grand scheme of things the intercept isn’t a revolution for Pilot Gold at Kucukdag, but it it does bolster Pilot Gold’s focus on a second kind of orogenesis it hopes has some potential for deposit size.

The intercept in question lies within what Pilot Gold calls stratiform mineralization and beyond an apparently more limited breccia zone, which has also yielded impressive results for Pilot Gold, including 5.94 g/t Au, 12.6 g/t silver and 0.53 percent copper over 137 metres (not true width). In being stratiform, the gold mineralization flanks along strata in the volcanic package of rocks at Kucukdag - flanking mineralization that Pilot Gold is drilling.

Pilot Gold vice president of Exploration, Moira Smith, had this to say about the latest intercept in a prepared statement: "The location of the intercept and the near-perpendicular orientation of the gold-bearing veins relative to the hole orientation suggest this intercept may reflect true width of the zone. The intervals form part of a newly recognized stratiform zone of mineralization that may have significant dimensions."

This is going to be worth watching as the “may have significant dimensions” hypothesis is being put to the test. Pilot Gold isflush with cashand actively drilling Kucukdag. The latest drill map also shows drillholes collared to the southeast of some of its best intercepts to date for which results are still pending.

Drill map here.