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42 www.resourceworld.com O C T O B E R / N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 9 SPENCES BRIDGE cut-off of 0.30 g/t gold at the combined Discovery South and Discovery North Zones. To date, 1,641 metres of trenching has been completed, plus 57 holes of dia- mond drilling for a total of 8,818 metres. The majority of historical drilling on the Prospect Valley property has taken place in the centre of the claim block, along the Discovery Trend. In a 2012 NI 43-101 report prepared by Equity Exploration Consultants, the company surmised that it was "quite possible that the fault/epither- mal system which controls the Discovery Zone extends across the entire property from the Bonanza Valley target in the south to the stream sediment anomalies on the northern boundary, a distance of 10 km." At the JJ Prospect on the Skoonka Creek property, drilling of 30 holes traced a strike length of 750 metres and to a depth of 140 metres down dip. The best gold grades are in well-developed epith- ermal quartz veins. Lower grades (<1 g/t) are located within a more extensive zone of moderately to strongly altered andesitic volcanic rocks. Highlights include 20.2 g/t gold over 12.8 metres (SC-008) and 28.6 g/t gold over 3.31 metres (SC-007). More than $6 million has been spent on the Shovelnose Project to date. Some of the drill results have been quite spec- tacular, including hole SN19-10 which returned 52.22 metres of 5.13 g/t gold (Au) and 17.32 g/t silver (Ag), including 18.50 metres of 11.39 g/t Au and 40.21 g/t Ag in Vein Zone 2. Other high-grade results include: 46.2 metres of 8.95 g/t Au and 65.47 g/t Ag, including 5.0 metres of 14.7 g/t Au and 215 g/t Ag. The discovery of a third vein zone at Shovelnose containing high-grade gold plus silver was announced by the company in late August, includ- ing 7.11 metres grading 9.42 g/t gold and 69.36 g/t silver (SN19-15). Prior to 2019, Westhaven had drilled 69 holes for a grand total of 18,212 metres of diamond drilling across the entire Shovelnose property that focused in five separate target areas: the Line 6 Zone, Mik Zone, Tower Zone, Alpine Zone and the recently discovered South Zone. In 2019 thus far, Westhaven has com- pleted an additional 22 holes in the south zone with two drills currently drilling. This is part of a larger 20,000 metres planned for 2019 at the property. Numerous magnetic-low targets remain to be tested and extensive gold has also been indicated in soil samples. Gareth Thomas stated, "The major- ity of the 155 km 2 Shovelnose property has seen very little exploration to date. Management firmly believes there will be more mineralized vein systems, as evi- dent in the South Zone, discovered on the property." As of June 30, 2019, Westhaven reported working capital of approximately $1.3 million. Not surprisingly, exploration activ- ity in the Spences Bridge region has escalated dramatically following news of Nicola Mining's 200 tonne-per-day gold processing mill and fully-lined tailings facility located 10 km northwest of Merritt offers custom milling services to gold miners in the region. Photo by Ellsworth Dickson