Pivotal Metals ramps up exploration at BAGB with focus on historical Lorraine gold targets

Pivotal Metals (ASX: PVT) is planning to aggressively investigate historical “bonanza” grade gold discoveries at the Lorraine prospect within its 100%-owned Belleterre-Angliers Greenstone Belt (BAGB) projects in Quebec, Canada.

Highlight results from its assessment of a historical underground channel sample from Lorraine returned 28 metres at 45.2 grams per tonne gold, showing significant system potential.

The company’s drilling also identified visible gold and defined a broad 600m strike prospective corridor with multiple signature copper-gold quartz veinings.

Broader program

“With a large and robust shallow copper resource and clear exploration pathway in hand at Horden Lake, we are broadening our program to our BAGB projects, where bonanza copper, nickel and gold grades are guiding us towards the next discovery,” Managing director Ivan Fairhall said.

“These gold targets at Lorraine are an exciting addition to our already attractive copper-nickel projects at BAGB.”

“The bonanza gold grades and their correlation over a significantly broad area provide very strong encouragement for discovery in this area, which has been largely unexplored for gold, with the historical focus on copper and nickel previously mined.”

Field work commenced

Pivotal has commenced field work to delineate the prospective gold-copper quartz veins with focused mapping and sampling to help define drill targets.

Mr Fairhall said early indications suggested a substantial outcrop in the target trend that would assist in lowering the cost and complexity of this first phase.

The company is also planning to conduct an unmanned aerial vehicle magnetic survey to support structural interpretations of what it believes is potentially a regional-scale mineralising system.

Aggressive summer program

“We are planning an aggressive summer field program to establish the continuity of the broad vein system adjacent to the Lorraine mine to develop drill targets for immediate follow-up,” Mr Fairhall said.

The Lorraine project covers 86.5 square kilometres over the Lac des Bois segment of the BAGB and is host to multiple known magmatic sulphide accumulations, including the past-producing Lorraine mine.

Despite having been mined to a depth of 200m in the 1960s, Pivotal believes Lorraine remains prospective for its high-grade magmatic copper-nickel extension potential.