Opawica Explorations Reports Promising Gold Mineralization at Bazooka Property

Opawica Explorations has reported significant progress in its 2025 exploration campaign at the Bazooka Property, uncovering promising gold mineralization within the renowned Abitibi Gold Belt. The company's recent drilling efforts have yielded substantial findings, including a broad 76-meter mineralized zone discovered at a depth of 285 to 361 meters. During the drilling program, the exploration team completed ten diamond drill holes totaling 2,000 meters and submitted 610 core samples for assay analysis.

A notable discovery was the visible gold observed in drill hole OP-25-33 at a depth of 348.5 meters, accompanied by consistent occurrences of arsenopyrite, fuchsite, and quartz veining. The Bazooka property is strategically located along the Cadillac-Larder Lake break/fault, one of the world's most prolific auriferous structures. This geological feature marks the boundary between the Archean Abitibi subprovince and the predominantly metasedimentary Pontiac subprovince, offering significant potential for mineral exploration.

Blake Morgan, Chief Executive Officer of Opawica, expressed enthusiasm about the early-stage program's results, highlighting the encouraging encounter of visible gold and the anticipation of upcoming assay results. The gold mineralization is hosted within the Main Zone, characterized by strongly altered quartz-carbonate-sericite and talc-chlorite schists derived from sedimentary and volcanic protoliths. Geological interpretations suggest prospective panels trending east-west with a steep northward dip, constrained within the Cadillac shear zone.

This 150-meter-wide corridor of altered and schistosed ultramafic units forms a distinctive Z-shape asymmetric drag fold in the Bazooka historic mine area. The exploration team's methodical approach, utilizing co-occurrence of selected exploration criteria in drill hole data, has provided valuable insights into the region's structural and mineralization patterns. These findings underscore the potential for significant mineral discoveries in this geologically rich terrain, particularly given the property's position along the Cadillac-Larder Lake break structure that has historically produced substantial gold deposits throughout the Abitibi region.