{"id":3878,"date":"2025-10-20T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soquem.qc.ca\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:05:14","slug":"soquem-intersects-2-66-zn-0-42-cu-0-11-g-t-au-and-18-9-g-t-ag-4-75-zneq-over-89-8-metres-confirming-the-southeast-extension-of-the-detour-selbaie-showing-on-wagosic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soquem.qc.ca\/en\/soquem-en\/soquem-intersects-2-66-zn-0-42-cu-0-11-g-t-au-and-18-9-g-t-ag-4-75-zneq-over-89-8-metres-confirming-the-southeast-extension-of-the-detour-selbaie-showing-on-wagosic\/","title":{"rendered":"SOQUEM intersects 2.66% Zn, 0.42% Cu, 0.11 g\/t Au and 18.9 g\/t Ag (4.75% ZnEq) over 89.8 metres, confirming the southeast extension of the Detour-Selbaie showing on Wagosic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Val-d\u2019Or, October 20, 2025 &#8211; SOQUEM, a subsidiary of Investissement Qu\u00e9bec, is pleased to announce the results of its winter\u00a02025 exploration drilling program on the Wagosic project. The wholly owned project lies roughly 90\u00a0km west of Matagami, near the former Selbaie mine (56.9\u00a0Mt at 0.87%\u00a0Cu, 1.85%\u00a0Zn, 0.55\u00a0g\/t Au, 39\u00a0g\/t Ag; CONSOREM,\u00a02012).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Detour-Selbaie showing:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Extension of a wide stockwork zone intersected in 2024. Hole\u00a01338-25-087 cut a mineralized zone of 296.9\u00a0m averaging 1.47% Zn, 0.20% Cu, 0.06\u00a0g\/t Au and 18.3\u00a0g\/t Ag, including 2.79% Zn and 63.6\u00a0g\/t Ag over 23.4\u00a0m and 2.66% Zn, 0.42% Cu, 0.11\u00a0g\/t Au and 18.9\u00a0g\/t Ag over 89.8\u00a0m, approximately 135\u00a0m southeast of hole\u00a01338-24-069.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Intersection of high-grade silver in hole\u00a01338-25-075, with 256.2\u00a0g\/t Ag, 0.22\u00a0g\/t Au and 0.38%\u00a0Zn over 22\u00a0m. A deeper second zone graded 6.39%\u00a0Zn, 22.8\u00a0g\/t\u00a0Ag and 0.09% Cu over 12\u00a0m.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Silver 2 Zone showing:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Demonstration of zinc and silver grade continuity, with multiple intercepts of veins, veinlets and sulphide stringers hosted in a highly silicified felsic tuff.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hole 1338-25-076: 0.87% Zn and 280.3\u00a0g\/t Ag over 16.1\u00a0m<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hole 1338-25-077: 0.25% Zn and 264.7\u00a0g\/t Ag over 8\u00a0m<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hole 1338-25-081: 0.66% Zn and 81.8\u00a0g\/t Ag over 30.3\u00a0m<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Xylem\u00a0Zone:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Upward expansion of the zone, approximately 100\u00a0m closer to the surface than the mineralization encountered in 2023 and 2024. Hole 1338-25-085 intersected 1.01% Cu and 2.8\u00a0g\/t Ag over 46.1\u00a0m, mainly consisting of chalcopyrite stringers and disseminations in quartz veins.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 2025 exploration program followed the successes of SOQUEM\u2019s 2023 and 2024 work on the project (press releases dated October 17, 2023, and October 22, 2024), aiming to confirm the continuity of polymetallic mineralization on the main showings. The Detour-Selbaie, Silver 2 Zone and Xylem showings were worked in the winter of 2025, with 15 new drill holes and 3 drill hole extensions totalling 8,982\u00a0m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/soquem-intersects-2-66-zn-0-42-cu-0-11-g-t-au-and-18-9-g-t-ag-4-75-zneq-over-89-8-metres-confirming-the-southeast-extension-of-the-detour-selbaie-showing-on-wagosic-896374762.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the online press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Val-d\u2019Or, October 20, 2025 &#8211; SOQUEM, a subsidiary of Investissement Qu\u00e9bec, is pleased to announce the results of its winter\u00a02025 exploration drilling program on the Wagosic project. The wholly owned project lies roughly 90\u00a0km west of Matagami, near the former Selbaie mine (56.9\u00a0Mt at 0.87%\u00a0Cu, 1.85%\u00a0Zn, 0.55\u00a0g\/t Au, 39\u00a0g\/t Ag; CONSOREM,\u00a02012). Highlights: Detour-Selbaie showing: Extension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soquem-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soquem.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soquem.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soquem.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soquem.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soquem.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.soquem.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3883,"href":"https:\/\/www.soquem.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions\/3883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soquem.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soquem.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soquem.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soquem.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}