Zonte Metals Inc reports that it has completed seven drill holes including five at Dunns Mountain and two at the nearby K7 target on the island of Newfoundland in eastern Canada, along with an airborne magnetic survey and a major soil sampling program, Kallanish reports.

The drilling intersected with copper mineralisation in most holes, says the company that is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Most of the copper was found between 76 metres and 81 m. The highest copper readings were between 76.5 m and 76.82 m with 0.91% copper, 17.1 grams/tonne silver and 0.73 g/t gold.

There was also a 1.75 m interval with 268.8 g/t, it says.

“Drilling continues to intersect copper mineralisation at Dunns,” says president and ceo Terry Christopher in a statement. “Drilling on the south end of the target shows a large area between CH-19-09 and CH-20-10 (two drill holes) where drilling intersected either wide zones of localized or widely spaced fracture-controlled mineralisation including high-grade silver in CH-20-10.”

A soil sample program in that area was just completed and additional drilling is planned, he says.

CH-20-10 is just 350 m north of the company’s Big K target that had been identified by magnetic and gravity anomalies. The hole and Big K appear to sit in a common structural corridor, the company says.

One drill hole targeted a 1,300 m by 600 m gravity and magnetic anomaly at Dunns Mountain. It hit several mineralised intervals including 0.30% copper and 0.49% copper at separate levels.

Two drill holes failed to conclusively intersect a zone of mineralisation similar to the high-grade interval in CH-19-04 and that means that the orientation of any high-grade shoot of mineralisation in that area remains unexplained. The northernmost hole did not intersect with mineralisation but did show major hydrothermal alteration.

The aerial survey identified numerous anomalies and the company has started a systematic ground checking program of those areas of interest. More exploration is planned by the company.

Dunns Mountain and K7 are part of the company’s larger Cross Hills Iron Oxide Copper Gold Project in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.