Zinc One Resources Inc (CVE:Z) has released final assays from the Bongarita zone at the Bongara mine, which the firm says will help delineate a resource.
In all, 36 holes for 578.2 meters were sunk at Bongarita in Peru and results showed high grades, the firm said.
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Very fine mineralisation, hosted by soils, has been delineated over an area of around 7,500 square metres (sq m), it added.
Highlight assays included 2.4 metres of an impressive 42.8% zinc, from 7.9 metres depth.
Another hole showed 2.4 metres of 38.1% zinc, from 1.5 metres, while another had 5.8 metres of 19.1% zinc from the surface.
"The drilling at Bongarita essentially confirmed that the amount of mineralised soils should be similar in size and grade to the historical resource," said Jim Walchuck, president and CEO at Zinc One.
"Zinc One anticipates that this drill data along with the previous pit and channel sampling data, will provide enough data to contribute to the delineation of a resource.
"The high-grade soils found at Bongarita would require very little stripping and blasting and could possibly be included in the operational startup depending on the outcome of the upcoming resource estimate."
2 portable rigs at Mina Chica and Mina Grande Sur
Bongarita is only one of the three known zones of high-grade, near-surface, zinc-oxide mineralisation along a 1.6 km trend.
The others are Mina Chica and Mina Grande Sur.
This week, the firm reported that it was encouraged by assays from first holes sunk at Mina Chica, which again confirmed high grade zinc.
The results penetrated as much as 16.5 metres of true vertical thickness with 36.5% zinc, the firm said.
At Mina Grande Sur, which is around 1.2km southeast of Bongarita, results from 11 of 60 holes drilled there have been reported so far.
Two portable rigs continue to drill at Mina Chica and Mina Grande Sur, the firm said.