Cleghorn Minerals Reports on Recent Channel Sampling Results from Historical Trenches & Pits on The Meech Lake - Matachewan Prospect 4.91% copper, 1.35% nickel, 1.53 ppm platinum and 4.49 ppm palladium over 0.5 metres, at the
Cleghorn Minerals Reports on Recent Channel
Sampling Results from Historical Trenches &
Pits on The Meech Lake - Matachewan
Prospect
4.91% copper, 1.35% nickel, 1.53 ppm platinum and 4.49 ppm palladium over 0.5 metres,
at the
Kell's Showing
2.08 ppm Gold, 5.2 ppm Silver & 1.08% Zinc over 0.7 metres, at the
Waterhole Showing
Val-d'Or, Québec--(Newsfile Corp. - November 14, 2024) - Cleghorn Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: CZZ)
("Cleghorn" or the "Company") is pleased to announce Nickel-Copper-PGE and Gold-Silver-Zinc
surface channel sampling results, on the Company's 100%-owned
Meech Lake - Matachewan Prospect
,
located in northeastern Ontario
.
2023-2024 Project Exploration Program Summary
A Phase II exploration program on the
Meech Lake - Matachewan Prospect
was completed in the Fall of
2023. The program consisted of detailed mapping and channel sampling over the
Kell's Showing
(Ni-
Cu-PGE),
T25 Trench
Area (Au-Ag-Zn), Wat
erhole Showing
(Au-Ag-Zn), and
Kell's Cabin Showing
(Au-Ag-Zn) of previously excavated historic pits and trenches (2018). The objective of the mapping and
channel sampling program was to define and characterize the surface mineralization outlined in the 2018
drill program.
A total of eight (8) excavations were mapped and sampled with four (4) on and over the western inferred
strike extensions respectively of the
Kell's Showing
(designated Trenches 2-5 on the accompany map
below), one (1) in the area of the
T25 Showing
(designated Trenches 1a and 1b - Note 1b was not
washed but channel sampled, one (1) on a historical trench between the
T25 and Waterhole Showings
(designated Trench 6 on the accompany map below), one (1) on the
Waterhole Showing
(designated
Trench 7 on the accompany map below), and one (1) on the
Kell's Cabin Showing
(designated Trench 8
on the accompany map below).
Stripped Areas Location Map
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A total of 42 channel samples were collected over the washed and mapped historical pits and trenches.
During the second quarter of 2024, the channel sample assay results were received from the laboratory.
A summary of the geology, sample highlights and the accompanying detailed mapping / channel maps
for the three (3) main mineralized zones on the property identified to date, are as follows:
Kell's Showing (Ni-Cu-PGE):
Trench 2 & 3 - Hostrock pyroxenite is generally enriched in nickel and slightly anomalous in copper
and platinum. No significant exposed mineralization and /or structures were noted.
Image 1
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Table 1
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Trench 4 - Hostrock gabbro is also generally enriched in nickel and slightly anomalous in copper,
palladium and platinum. Two separate fault structures mapped.
Trench 5 - 4.91% copper, 1.35% nickel, 1.53 ppm platinum and 4.49 ppm palladium over a 50 cm
channel. Cut across a 5 x 12 cm bleb of sulfides proximal to a fault structure that was previously
covered by overburden. The sample is located immediately adjacent to the Kell's historic pit to the
east where a remnant 30 x 40 cm accumulation of in-situ massive sulfide (sampled in 2017 -
8.31% Cu, 3.80% Ni, 13.5 g/t Pt, 60.4 g/t Pd) remains intact within the gabbro hostrock.
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Table 2
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Left-Trench 4 channel samples in host gabbro with elevated nickel values in gabbro hostrock; Right-Trench 5 channel samples;
sample L903426 was taken over a 12 cm long sulphide inclusion in the gabbro hostrock
Waterhole Showing (Au-Ag-Zn):
Trench 1a (
Historical Trench 25 Area
)
- S
ingle channel sample, hostrock is lamprophyre.
Trench 1b (
Historical Trench 25 Area
) - Single channel sample over mineralized and oxidized
shear/fracture zone.
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Table 3
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Trench 6 (historical trench
between the T25 and Waterhole Showings)
- Four (4) channel samples
are cut in a mafic volcanic hostrock across a narrow quartz stringer zone along a slip-
fracture/shear zone along the northern edge of the exposed outcrop. Three of the samples
generated significant zinc values ranging from 1.08 - 5.06%, as well as gold values ranging from
0.12 - 2.08 ppm, and silver values from 1.5 - 5.2 ppm, over widths of 0.6 - 0.7 cm.
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Table 4
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Trench 6 Shear zone and weak quartz stringers crosscutting mafic volcanics with elevated Zn
values;
Trench 7 - A series of channel samples were cut across the two (2) main shears, narrow quartz
stringers/veins/patches and oxidized weathered surface features, over the historical Waterhole
Showing area. Gold values were generally anomalous with local elevated gold, silver and zinc
values. One of the better channel samples across one of the shears graded 0.957 ppm gold, 3.9
ppm silver, 9240 ppm zinc and 1060 ppm copper, over 70 cm.
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Table 5
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Trench 7 channel samples taken over local oxidized shear zones with quartz stringers cutting
massive mafic volcanics. Elevated Zn and Au values appear to be associated with oxidized
zones;
Kell's Cabin Showing (Au-Ag-Zn):
Trench 8 - Channel samples were cut in and around the historic pit near the site of Mr. Hugh Kell's
1930's cabin. The best result was from a sample cut across the main shear zone across the top
end of the historical pit; assaying 0.168 ppm gold, 9.1 ppm silver, 9820 ppm zinc and 1030 ppm
copper.
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Table 6
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Trench 8 channel samples were taken over local oxidized shear zone, veining, and fracture zones cutting the mafic metavolcanic
hostrock.
In conclusion, this additional exploration work conducted by Cleghorn on the property further confirmed
the presence of two separate mineralized systems on the property, previously documented in a series of
historical pits and/or trenches. They are represented by the
Kell's Ni-Cu-PGE Showing
and the
Waterhole Au-Ag-Zn Showing.
These two mineralized trends have now been defined over 45 metres
(Trench 2 to Trench 5) and 370 metres (Trench 1B to Trench 8), along their respective mineralized
trends.
It is recommended that the following program be initiated on the property to follow-up on these results:
1
.
Additional stripping along strike of the mineralized zones mapped and sampled to date.