Torr Metals has officially confirmed the news relaying successful mobilization of field crews to undertake a large-scale surface exploration program, covering soil sampling and prospecting, at its 100%-owned 261 km Filion Gold Project.
To give you some context, the company had commenced exploration at this project back in late 2023, when it conducted first-ever soil sampling program in the area targeting geophysical trends of historically documented gold occurrences across its western section. As for the results, they revealed six substantial gold anomalies, never drill tested, with strike lengths of up to 1,200 meters (m) and gold grades as high as 1.32 grams per tonne (g/t) gold (Au), spread across a corridor more than two kilometers wide.
Talk about the project on a slightly deeper level, we begin from its untested historical conductors and gold occurences. You see, the initial 2023 soil sampling covered just 25% of the historical VLF-EM geophysical conductors and only one of the historical gold occurrences, Millar East, where historical grades of up to 91.4 g/t Au over 0.3 m were reported in channel sampling. However, having gauged a bit of the given picture, Torr now plans on significant expansion with its initial 2024 program consisting of an 8.8 km² soil and prospecting grid targeting the remaining 75% conductors, as well as historical gold occurrences across a 6 km strike length.
Next up, we must get into the presence of trenches, something which was detected using advanced LiDAR technology. Here, Torr discovered 17 unreported historical trenches, alongside 18 new rock outcrops within the trend of historical VLF-EM conductors. Markedly enough, the significance of such a development can be understood once you consider that it appears in a region of thin till cover, thus providing targeted high-priority locations for more sampling and mapping during the 2024 field program.
“We’re thrilled to mobilize field crews to the Filion Gold Project, where the untapped exploration potential is vast, spanning an unexplored 42 km structural corridor known for hosting high-grade gold,” said Malcolm Dorsey, president and CEO of Torr Metals. “Our 2024 program will focus on testing unexamined conductors, historical gold occurrences, and advancing the significant anomalies from 2023. Combined with new LiDAR data revealing untested outcrops and undrilled high-priority targets, this large-scale effort sets the stage for major grassroots discoveries in this highly prospective but underexplored region.”
Then, we have the project’s undrilled high-potential gold anomalies. Even though none of the delineated 2023 gold soil anomalies have been tested by drilling, historical drill hole i.e. 88-7 continues to provide compelling evidence for significant subsurface alteration and mineralization. You see, located 1,300 m along strike from a key 150 m-wide soil anomaly coincident with Conductor #2, the hole intersected 73.2 m of highly prospective silica-sericite-tourmaline alteration with pyrite-arsenopyrite mineralization hosted in quartz veining. Such alteration and mineralization, when placed alongside intensification reportedly associated with a quartz-feldspar porphyry unit, compliments characteristics seen in regional gold deposits, such as in the Hemlo Mine.
Rounding up highlights would be the facility’s drill-ready gold targets, Torr’s exploration permit, acquired in July 2024, puts the company ahead of others in respect to drilling these gold targets. Making this all the more important would an expectation of a major new grassroots discovery.
