Quartz Commences Drilling at Prodigy High Grade Precious Metals Discovery on Its Maestro Property in British Columbia
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ACCESS Newswire
April 09, 2025 at 07:45 AM EDT
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / April 9, 2025 / Quartz Mountain Resources Ltd. (TSXV:QZM)(OTC PINK:QZMRF) ("Quartz" or the "Company") is pleased to announce diamond drilling has commenced at the Prodigy gold and silver discovery located on its Maestro Property in central British Columbia. The Property is located 45 kilometers ("km") south of Smithers with year-round road access and nearby infrastructure including rail, hydroelectricity, and natural gas. Earlier results announced in 2024, from Quartz's initial two drill holes at Prodigy, included 102 meters grading 2.22 g/t gold ("Au") with 104 g/t silver ("Ag") and 36 meters of 5.73 g/t Au with 87 g/t Ag. Drilling results from Maestro announced in 2024 succeeded in discovering a significant new and highly mineralized system at Prodigy. The initial focus of the current drill program is to follow up the discovery with additional delineation drilling aimed at expanding the known extent of the newly discovered mineralized system. The current phase of drilling commenced with one core rig and, subject to results, is expected to continue in multiple sequential phases of drilling during 2025. Assay results from the current phase of the program will be announced as soon as they are received and compiled. "Quartz was built with a clear mission: to discover and transact high-value gold-silver-copper projects that are coveted by major operators," said Chairman Bob Dickinson. "With the recent closing of our $4.2 million private placement we now are fully funded and progressing forward on delineation drilling of the Prodigy discovery on our Maestro Project. Earlier results announced in 2024, from our initial two drill holes at Prodigy, surpassed our expectations. Those results included 102 meters grading 2.22 g/t Au with 104 g/t Ag and 36 meters of 5.73 g/t Au with 87 g/t Ag. Early observations suggest there are multiple overlapping gold, silver, molybdenum ("Mo") and copper ("Cu") mineralizing events that resulted in multiple deposit targets across the Maestro Property. Experienced management, strong funding support, surging metals prices, combined with our reduced risk discoveries that are ready for drill delineation, support Quartz's objective to achieve its goal." concluded Dickinson. The Maestro Property completely covers the large Lone Pine molybdenum deposit and Quartz's targeted, and potentially related, large scale epithermal precious metals systems like Prodigy that occur up to several kilometers outboard of Lone Pine. Quartz's initial two Prodigy scout discovery holes (PR-23-01 and PR-23-02) announced in April 2024 combined with results from ten historical core holes drilled in the period 2007-2011 by a past operator (see Figure 1, Prodigy Drill Hole Plan Map) intersected a high-grade Au-Ag lode and also high grade Ag-Au veins, with both styles of mineralization hosted within an extensive epithermal Ag-Au system (see Table 1 and Table 2). The lode and veins along with the more bulk-style disseminated precious metals that have been intersected by the holes are all hosted within a large and earlier deposited Mo-Cu porphyry system. Together, these results represent the discovery of a substantial new Au-Ag system at Maestro with drill intersections indicating high potential for both bulk tonnage and high-grade mineralization, potentially related to the Lone Pine Mo-Cu porphyry deposit located on the Property approximately 1 km south of the Prodigy discovery. ![]()
Table 1. Prodigy drill hole assay results from drill holes PR-23-02 and PR-23-01. See Figure 1 for reference plan.
Table 2. Historical drill hole assay results at Prodigy drilled by a previous operator between 2007 and 2011. See Figure 1 for reference plan. The Maestro Project is one of two key projects being developed by Quartz in British Columbia. The Maestro drill program follows initial scout drilling at the Company's Jake Project which succeeded in making a new porphyry copper-gold discovery and acquisition of an entire new B.C. porphyry copper-gold district surrounding the Jake Property (see Quartz news release dated January 14, 2025). Footnotes to Tables 1 and 2.
About Quartz Quartz is associated with Hunter Dickinson Inc. (HDI), a company with over 35 years of successfully discovering, developing and transacting mineral projects in Canada and internationally. Former HDI projects in British Columbia included Mount Milligan, Kemess South and Gibraltar -- all of which are porphyry-copper±gold deposits with current-producing or former-producing mines. Recently, Amarc Resources, an HDI associate, with funding from Freeport, announced the exciting discovery of the exceptionally high grade, AuRORA gold-copper-porphyry deposit also in British Columbia. Other well-known projects with HDI involvement include Sisson and Prosperity in Canada, Pebble and Florence in the United States, and Xietongmen in China. Quartz is committed to the advancement of important-scale, critical and essential mining assets while following responsible mineral development principles, including a mandate to employ best-practice approaches in the engagement and involvement of local communities and meeting rigorous environmental standards. About Maestro Since acquiring the property, Quartz has conducted comprehensive geochemical and geophysical surveys, including soil/silt sampling, induced polarization geophysics, airborne magnetic surveys, hyperspectral studies, detailed relogging of historical drill core and assaying for gold only, 976 pulp samples derived from historical assaying of numerous core holes located across the Maestro Property. Quartz'sfirst ever drill test, on its Maestro Property, a maiden two-hole drill program at the Prodigy Zone, discovered exciting high-grade Au-Ag lodes and Ag-Au veins which are both hosted within an extensive epithermal Au-Ag system. The Au lodes and Ag veins along with the more disseminated precious metals intersected by the drill holes are all hosted within a large and earlier deposited, Mo-Cu porphyry system. Quartz's second core hole, PR-23-02 intersected 102 m grading 2.22 g/t Au and 104 g/t Ag, including 12 m grading 1.23 g/t Au and 586 g/t Ag and also 36 m of 5.73 g/t Au and 87 g/t Ag. These results indicate high potential for both bulk tonnage and underground high-grade gold and silver mineralization. Delineation type drilling of the new Prodigy discovery at Maestro, has commenced. It is expected that drilling at Prodigy will be consistently advanced in multiple stages during 2025. Mineralization remains open in multiple directions and at depth, promising significant further potential. About Jake Qualified Person On behalf of the Board of Directors For further information, please contact: or: Roger Blair or Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information. SOURCE: Quartz Mountain Resources Ltd. View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire More NewsView MoreVia MarketBeat
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