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According to Mining News Pro - Notable intercepts from the carbonate-replacement deposit include: 1.72% copper, 0.93 gram gold per tonne and 29.1 grams silver per tonne over 5 metres from 232 metres downhole, 1 metre grading 0.59 gram gold, 382.8 grams silver and 21.22% zinc from 63 metres downhole, and 4.6 metres grading 4.17 grams gold, 34.5 grams silver and 1.6% zinc from 56 metres downhole.

“Our goal was to explore the proximal part of the system and see if we could get into an area where there was a good fluid flow path that could lead to larger bodies of more continuous mineralization to give us more tonnage,” Sun Metals president and CEO Steve Robertson says in an interview with The Northern Miner.