West Mining Completes 8 Drill Holes at Daylight Property
WEST MINING COMPLETES 8 DRILL HOLES AT DAYLIGHT
PROPERTY
Vancouver, B.C. – July 19, 2021– West Mining Corp. (“West” or the “Company”) (CSE: WEST)
(OTC: WESMF) is pleased to provide an update on the 2021 exploration program underway on its
100% owned Daylight Property.
Kena Gold-Copper Project – Daylight Property
The over 8000 hectare Kena Project, consists of the Kena, Daylight and Athabasca Properties which
trend along a 20 kilometre long favourable mineralized belt. Gold, silver and copper mineralization
relate to orogenic gold introduction and concentration within a several kilometre long foliated,
altered, zoned, porphyry system. A recent gold resource estimate (NI 43-101 Technical Report on
the Kena Project, Bird, 2021) shows an indicated 561,000 ounces gold and an inferred 2.77 million
ounces gold within an open ended portion of this robust system (see News Release dated May 11,
2021).
An initial eight diamond drill holes have now been completed on the Great Western Zone of the
Daylight Property in southeastern British Columbia. These drill holes have been positioned to test
the down dip and strike extension of 2017 high grade gold drill intercepts (BC ARIS Report #37536),
including:
DL17005* - 63.7 g/t gold over 0.9 metres, 20.9 g/t gold over 0.5 metres, 11.6 g/t gold over
0.79 metres and 10.3 g/t gold over 0.6 metres. These gold intervals occur within a 36 metre
wide zone which averages 1.06 g/t gold
DL17007* - 21.2 g/t gold over 0.48 metres, 7.36 g/t gold over 0.5 metres, 9.0 g/t gold over
0.5 metres. These gold intervals occur within a 71.22 metre section averaging 1.09 g/t gold.
*Note: True width of these historic drill intercepts is unknown. The historic drill collar locations for DL17005
and DL17007 have been located and diamond drill core has been re-logged with confirmation samples collected
and submitted to Bureau Veritas Mineral Laboratories by West Mining Corp. geologists as part of their due
diligence program (results pending).
The southwestern half of the Daylight Property is underlain by strongly sheared, undifferentiated
mafic to intermediate volcanic rocks of the Jurassic Elise Formation. While the northeast half is
underlain by variably altered and fractured felsic to intermediate intrusives of the Jurassic Silver
King Porphyry stock. The property is immediately adjacent to the one kilometre wide intense Silver
King Shear system, which is host to the famous Silver King silver-copper mine (BC Minfile
#082FSW176).
Two styles of gold, silver and copper mineralization occur on the property: 1 - broad zones of
porphyry style mineralization and 2 – high-grade shear/vein structures within the broader zones.
These mineralization styles are the key target for the 2021 drilling at Daylight and were intercepted
in all drill holes to date.
“We are very excited with the favourable alterations and mineralization seen in these first drill holes
on our Kena Project’s Daylight Property. The Geological and Drilling team have done a great job
identifying and expanding the trend, consequently based upon our initial feedback there is the strong
possibility that the deposit has a robust continuation,” stated Nicholas Houghton, President and CEO
of West Mining Corp.
Drill hole DL21-01 and DL21-02 drilled down dip from prior hole DL17005 intersected the top 49.95
and 60.22 metres, respectively, of strongly bleached and quartz-sericite-pyrite altered intrusive rock
with increased quartz-carbonate-pyrite +/- chalcopyrite veinlets and disseminations. The alteration,
mineralization and veinlet style observed in the drill core represents the anticipated key target for the
step-out drilling in the Great Western area.
Drill hole DL21-03, located 100 metres northwest of DL17005 drilled variably altered Silver King
intrusive rock for its entire 112 metre length. Sections of quartz-sericite alteration are interspersed
with less altered and mineralized fresher intrusive rock.
Drill holes DL21-04 and 05 were drilled from a single drill pad stepped out 130 metres south of hole
DL17005. Holes DL21-04 and DL21-05 were drilled at -50 and -90 dips, with hole DL21-05 drilled
to a depth of 322 metres. Both drill holes collared in Elise Formation volcanic rocks exhibiting
variable chlorite, sericite, epidote alteration and zones of strong quartz-carbonate-pyrite stringers.
At 59.1 metres hole DL21-04 intercepted the contact with the Silver King intrusive rocks which are
strongly altered, silicified and bleached for 31 metres with quartz-carbonate-pyrite veinlets and
disseminations. Hole DL21-05 intersected the intrusive contact at 127.74 metres depth and
continued in well altered and mineralized rock to the final hole depth of 322 metres.
Additional work is required to determine the true width of these drill intercepts, but initial core
logging suggests that hole DL21-01 and DL21-04 intercepts approximate true width.
The remaining three drill holes from the Great Western Zone are currently being logged and sampled.
Initial drill core results are anticipated in early August.
The diamond drill has now been repositioned and is currently testing the Starlight Trend on the
western side of the Daylight Property with a series of 8 additional drill holes from 4 pad locations at
the northern end of a three kilometre long vein/shear structure. This Trend hosts the historic, early
1900s, small scale, past producing Starlight, Victoria and Daylight Mines:
Starlight* (BC Minfile# 082FSW174) produced 21 tonnes at 27.8 g/t gold, 139.5 g/t silver
and 0.4% copper;
Daylight* (BC Minfile# 082FSW175) produced 327 tonnes at 27 g/t gold, 15 g/t silver,
plus minor lead and zinc;
Victoria* (BC Minfile# 082FSW173) produced 3255 tonnes at 1.16 g/t gold, 28.9 g/t
silver and 2.6% copper.
*Note: These historic values cannot be relied upon, however the locations of the old mine workings have been
verified by West Mining Corp. geologists and are used to assist with planning for the current exploration program.
Prior exploration work, in 2002 and 2017, included surface sampling and diamond drilling of 8 holes
along the Starlight Trend (BC ARIS Reports #27240 and 37536). This historic sampling returned
23 g/t gold over a 1.0 metre surface chip sample and 30.4 g/t gold over 0.3 metres in drill core. The
historic drill collar locations for the prior drill programs have been located and diamond drill core
re-logged with confirmation samples collected and submitted to Bureau Veritas Mineral Laboratories
by West Mining Corp. geologists as part of their due diligence program (results pending).
Quality Control/Quality Assurrance
One each of blank, field duplicate and standard is inserted into the sample stream for every 20 drill
core samples. Core samples are split, bagged, zip-tied and trucked to Bureau Veritas Mineral
Laboratories (“BV Labs”) in Burnaby, British Columbia for analyses. The field inserted standards
(certified reference materials) and blanks were purchased from CDN Resource Laboratories Ltd. of
Langley, British Columbia.
Samples are analyzed at BV Labs facilities for gold by fire assay with an atomic absorption finish
and 48 additional elements were analyzed using a multi-acid digestion with an ICP-ES finish.
BV Labs are registered to ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 17025:2017 accreditations for laboratory
procedures. In the laboratory, blanks (analytical and method), duplicates and standard reference
materials are internally inserted in the sequences of client samples. Using these inserted quality
control samples each analytical batch and complete job is rigorously reviewed and validated by BV
Labs prior to release.
Linda Dandy, P.Geo., a "Qualified Person" for the purpose of National Instrument 43-101, has
reviewed and approved the contents of this news release.
About West Mining Corp.
West Mining Corp. is a mineral exploration company acquiring and developing prospective
advanced early-stage exploration projects. It is fully focused on its 100% owned, 8000 hectare
Kena Project located near Nelson, British Columbia. The Kena Project comprises three adjoining
Properties: Kena, Daylight and Athabasca. A recent NI43-101 resource estimate for Kena gave
561,900 oz Au indicated and 2,773,100 oz Au inferred in the Gold Mountain, Kena Gold and
Daylight Zones. The Kena Property also hosts the large Kena Copper Zone, along with with the
historic Euphrates and Gold Cup gold-silver mines. The Daylight property contains the historic past
producing Daylight, Starlight, Victoria, Irene and Great Eastern gold mines. Along trend to the north
is the Athabasca Property, with the historic Athabasca Gold Mine. The historic mines and known
mineralized zones on these three properties are structurally controlled along a 20 kilometre strike as
identified by strong geophysical signatures.
For additional information, please refer to the Company’s public disclosure record available on
SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
West Mining Corp.
Nicholas Houghton
President & CEO
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