Blue Star Gold Corp. has staked a 1,112-hectare block of claims at the northern end of its 27,000-hectare land package in Nunavut’s West Kitikmeot region, targeting high-grade gold prospects along the proposed Grays Bay Road.
The company’s holdings span the Ulu-Hood River and Roma projects, covering over 45 kilometers of the High Lake Greenstone Belt. The Ulu property hosts the Flood and Gnu zones, which contain 2.54 million metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 7.02 grams per metric ton gold (572,000 ounces), and 1.28 million metric tons of inferred resources averaging 7.34 g/t gold (303,000 ounces).
Recent sampling in 2024 confirmed high-grade gold at outcrops north of Roma, prompting Blue Star to stake the new Avalliq property. This area includes four key prospects – MOV, Silver Bullet, Cygnet Northern, and Black Ice – where historical samples have returned grades as high as 186.1 g/t gold.
“The expansion of our Roma Project with the staking of the Avalliq property adds a new, highly prospective and target-rich area to our exploration pipeline,” said CEO Grant Ewing.
The MOV quartz vein, discovered in 1984 by Echo Bay Mining, was mapped, trenched, and surveyed but never drilled. Further exploration by BHP Minerals Canada in the late 1980s and early 1990s identified Silver Bullet and Black Ice, two gold-bearing outcrops located roughly 2.5 kilometers southwest of MOV. Chip samples from Silver Bullet ranged from 1.43 to 123 g/t gold over widths up to one meter, with a 1995 drill hole intersecting 1.04 meters averaging 13.4 g/t. At Black Ice, sampling yielded up to 11.4 g/t gold, and drilling cut 0.76 meters averaging 13.7 g/t.
BHP also explored the Cygnet Northern target, situated about 300 meters southeast of Silver Bullet. More than half the samples from this zone exceeded 1 g/t gold, with 10% topping 10 g/t. In 2004, Pure Gold Minerals returned to the area, conducting further mapping and geophysical work. One sample from Silver Bullet assayed at 186.1 g/t gold.
“The high-grade gold grabs at surface, historically trenched MOV target, and numerous untested geophysical anomalies suggest we have added substantial discovery potential to our land position in the High Lake Belt,” Ewing said.
Blue Star plans to conduct geophysical surveys, mapping, and sampling at Avalliq in 2025 to refine targets for future drilling.
“We are looking forward to advancing this property to evaluate its full potential,” Ewing added.
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