Eagle Plains Resources (EPL.V) announced the results of its 2024 field program on the Snowstorm project in British Columbia. This project is located within the Slocan mining camp which has a 150 year exploration and mining history as there are official records of 173 past producing mines with a total production of in excess of 30 million ounces of silver. The property has never been subject to any drilling, and the most advanced exploration program consisted of digging some trenches.
It wasn’t an extensive exploration program as it consisted of a single day of mapping and prospecting, but even though time was limited, the company’s field team located historical workings where high-grade mineralization was still present indicating the project has potential for high-grade veins as well as bulk tonnage mineralization.
At Snowstorm, the company highlighted three samples of which two float samples were collected from a waste dump but still yielded 0.78 g/t gold, 136 g/t silver and 7.47% lead in one sample and 2.64 g/t gold, 174 g/t silver and 13.71% ZnPb in the other sample.
The field team also sampled the Pine Tree vein at the Silver Sparrow prospect, with samples returning multi-gram gold values and the interesting gold and silver values encountered across the property resulted in Eagle Plains expanding the size of the project by additional staking. The Snowstorm property now contains almost 2,100 hectares, and it will be interesting to see if Eagle Plains will spend more time and money on Snowstorm in 2025.
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