# Ximen Mining Corp Visible Gold Intersected in Hole 7 at the West Zone, Brett Epithermal Gold Property - Vernon BC

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/ximen-mining-corp-visible-gold-intersected-in-hole-7-at-the-west-zone-brett-epit--4499deea-1968-4473-9f3f-728035879ba7

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/XIM/news/4840846483576982/ximen-mining-corp-visible-gold-intersected-in-hole-7-at-the-west-zone-brett-epit

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2024-11-12T14:00:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Ximen Mining Corp

- Ticker: XIM

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: British Columbia

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: None reported

- Document categories: Drill results

- Extracted: 2026-08-24 18:52:42 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.60 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Ximen Mining Corp intersected visible gold in hole B24-07 at the Brett Epithermal Gold Project. The results demonstrate that the West Zone is a major gold-bearing area associated with porphyry and clay-altered faults, marking a successful step-out from previous drilling.

Reasoning: The hole successfully identified a new gold-bearing zone \(West Zone\) with visible gold, representing a significant exploration step-out, though specific assay values were not provided in this release.

- Positive factor: discovery of new gold-bearing zone

- Positive factor: visible gold intersected

- Positive factor: step-out drilling success

- Negative factor: no assay grades reported for the visible gold interval

Facts used in scoring: 2

## Classification and evidence

**Step-Out Extension**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Mineralization extended beyond the previously known limit.

Why it applies: Hole B24-07 was drilled to test the extent of the West Zone alteration towards the west, away from previous holes.

Evidence · text

> drilled to the southwest to test the extent of the West Zone alteration zone

**QA/QC Disclosed**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Release includes QA/QC disclosure — certified lab, QP sign-off, or stated methods \(blanks, standards, duplicates\).

Why it applies: The release includes a sign-off from a Qualified Person \(Dr. Mathew Ball, P.Geo.\).

Evidence · text

> Dr. Mathew Ball, P.Geo., VP Exploration for Ximen Mining Corp. and a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101, approved the technical information

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 2. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

## Drill Results (2)

### B24-07

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/ximen-mining-corp-visible-gold-intersected-in-hole-7-at-the-west-zone-brett-epit--4499deea-1968-4473-9f3f-728035879ba7#fact-drill-facts-0)

Brett Epithermal Gold Project · gold

#### Identity

- Hole ID: B24-07
- Project: Brett Epithermal Gold Project
- Commodity: gold
- Region: canada\_bc
- Reported Region: British Columbia
- Ticker: XIM

#### Geometry

- Intercept: 2.28 m
- From: 85.8 m
- To: 88.08 m

#### Classification

- Sample Type: drill
- Group ID: B24-07:85.8-88.08

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Interp. Status: scored
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2024-11-12T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Intersection of visible gold in a new zone is a high-novelty exploration signal, but lack of assay grade limits quantitative assessment.

- Positive factor: visible gold

- Negative factor: no assay grade provided

Evidence · text

> This last interval contains visible gold at 87.25 m within a colloform-banded silica-pyrite veinlet that contains multiple \(20 +\) grains of gold

### B24-07

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/ximen-mining-corp-visible-gold-intersected-in-hole-7-at-the-west-zone-brett-epit--4499deea-1968-4473-9f3f-728035879ba7#fact-drill-facts-1)

Brett Epithermal Gold Project · gold

#### Identity

- Hole ID: B24-07
- Project: Brett Epithermal Gold Project
- Commodity: gold
- Region: canada\_bc
- Reported Region: British Columbia
- Ticker: XIM

#### Geometry

- Intercept: 13.01 m
- From: 19.86 m
- To: 32.87 m

#### Classification

- Sample Type: drill
- Group ID: B24-07:19.86-32.87

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Interp. Status: scored
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2024-11-12T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Identified a significant width of mineralized veinlets, but no grade was reported.

- Positive factor: mineralized veinlets

- Negative factor: no assay grade provided

Evidence · text

> intervals 19.86 to 32.87 \(13.01 m\)

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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