Leviathan Metals (TSX-V:LVX) has received results from a 2025 mechanical trenching program at the Foča Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which sets the stage for drilling this year.
The company says the trenches were targeted in follow-up of a combination of ‘high-grade’ rock chip samples previously collected by Leviathan’s geological team.
The samples comprise gossanous breccia occurrences recorded at surface and surface zinc-lead anomalism arising from Leviathan’s property-wide reconnaissance, and subsequent follow up soil surveys.
Leviathan adds that the surface anomalism is seen to occur repeatedly over a strike length of approximately 2.6km – Vrela-Kremin trend – in apparent association with an east-northeast-trending fault system, the west-southwest end of which is marked by historical Yugoslav diamond drilling, from which an average mineralised thickness of 15m @ 13.25% lead+zinc between three holes completed in 1967 was reported.
CEO Luke Norman says the results from Vrela-Kremin show near-surface silver, lead, and zinc over prominent widths within the footprint of a broader structural and geochemical corridor.
“Southern Bosnia having seen almost no modern systematic exploration, this positions Leviathan as a leader in unlocking what could potentially be the next major silver-base metal system in the district, and sets the stage for drilling at Foča during the 2026 exploration season,” Norman says.
The Foča Project, covering 100.7km2, includes a series of silver and base metal targets tentatively interpreted to be of SEDEX original and lies 100km southeast of the Vareš Project.
Vareš hosts an indicated resource of 18.3 million tonnes @ 168 grams per tonne silver, 1.3g/t gold, 4.6% zinc, 2.9% lead, 0.4% copper, and 30% barium sulphate, as well as an inferred resource of 2.8 million tonnes @ 75g/t silver, 0.5g/t gold, 2.4% zinc, 1.6% lead, 0.2% copper and 13% barium sulphate.
Leviathan Metals is a Canada-based mineral explorer focused on discoveries prospective for primarily copper, uranium, and polymetallic.
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