Tertiary relishes golden opportunity

TERTIARY Minerals, the Macclesfield-based mining exploration company, has announced positive results from its first drilling programme at its Kiekerömaa gold project in Finland.

The firm said that although the drilling programme was affected by low core recovery, with no meaningful samples found in some of the shallow holes dug, it found higher levels of gold sulphides in some of the deeper holes drilled.

The firm said the results inducatre “the potential for a significant gold-mearing mineralised zone” at Kiekerömaa, which is in the Lappland Greenstone belt in Northern Finland.

The company said that it now plans to embark on Geophysics and follow-up drilling to outline the extent of the gold-bearing sulphide zone ant to locate further drill targets.

Executive chairman Patrick Cheetham said: “Although too early to talk in terms of a significant discovery, it is unusual to find such deep weathering in this part of Finland and our experience suggests this reflects the preferential weathering of hydrothermally altered and sulphide mineralised rocks, which we now know to be associated with the gold mineralisation at Kiekerömaa.

“It’s an exciting and intriguing prospect.”