Ubique Minerals Limited announced that the 2021 diamond drilling program has been completed at the Daniel's Harbour Property in Newfoundland and some assay results announced. The diamond drilling program was started later than planned due to the late arrival of the equipment and as a result ran into colder than expected weather resulting in freezing problems. Subsequently extraordinary delays were encountered at the assay laboratory. Three holes probing for extensions of the 1386 Zone (UM47 – 49) with one hole having to be abandoned short of its target.

Ten holes (UM-50 – 59) were then drilled in the Nose Zone target area where drilling extended the zone to the northeast and confirmed continuity of the zone to the southwest. The Nose Zone has now been defined over a strike length of more than 260 metres. Drilling in the 1386 Zone was stopped after encountering technical difficulties in hole UM-49 and the drill then moved to the Nose Zone where holes UM-50 to UM-54 were drilled at the east end of the open-ended Nose Zone and none located the core the zone.

Holes UM-56 to UM-59 were drilled southwesterly along the Nose Zone to probe for width limits to the zone and in the case of holes UM-57 and UM-58 demonstrated that the zone was wider than previously interpreted. The plan shown below locates the collars and traces of the Nose Zone holes with holes with greater than 8 metre percent zinc being shown in red. The Nose and 1386 Zones trend parallel to the L Zone sequence of ore zones which were the largest deposits mined during the historic mining operation.

The L Zone yielded 4.3 million tonnes of ore and had a strike length of approximately 2.5 kilometres. The currently drilled strike length of the Nose Zone is only 0.26 kilometres so a lot more drilling is needed to determine if it has a similar strike length to that of the L Zone. The three-dimensional impression below shows not only the relative positions of all these zinc zones but also the convenient location of the decline ramp which could be dewatered for easy access.