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Battery Mineral Resources Corp.: Battery Mineral Resources Plans Diamond Drilling on the Bald Rock Cobalt-Silver Target in the Gowganda Area
Battery or
BMR or the
Company ) announces that it has completed a seven hole - 682.00 metre diamond drill program on its 100% owned Bald Rock prospect in the Gowganda Project area (Figure 1).
Highlights
The Bald Rock target comprises an area of extensive historic stripping and channel sampling that yielded intervals grading 51.60 grams per tonne silver ( g/t Ag ), >1.00 percent cobalt ( % Co ) and 1.37 percent copper ( % Cu ) over 0.58 metres ( m ), and 4.19g/t Ag, >0.30% Co, and 1.13% Cu over 2.05m;
Rock sampling by BMR field crews of the stripped outcrop that was channel sampled in 2011 returned assays of 41.30g/t Ag, 1.53% Co and 7.65% Cu;
Battery Mineral Resources Corp.: Battery Mineral Resources Ontario Cobalt Exploration Update
Battery or
BMR or the
Company ) is pleased to announce that drilling intercepted 4 main cobalt mineralized structures on the recently completed and initial diamond drill program at the White Reserve Project located about 120 kilometres northeast of Sudbury and 30 kilometers southwest of town of Elk Lake.
Highlights:
17 drillholes completed for 1,838 meters ( m );
Targets identified from recent three-dimensional model of historic underground mine workings and results of a recent geophysical model;
Samples have been dispatched for assay and results are pending.
About the White Reserve program
The White Reserve property comprises 616 mining claims totaling 12,984 hectares of contiguous mining claims located in Banks, Barber, Speight, Van Nostrand and Whitson townships (Figure 1). Much of the White Reserve property was burnt by a devastating forest fire during the summer of 2018 (