Goldeye explorations.

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It's been well worth the wait for Weebigee.

Goldeye Explorations believes it's just scratched the surface in unearthing a major high-grade gold find within the Sandy Lake green-stone belt in northwestern Ontario.

Based on a very successful winter drilling program, the Weebigee gold project - an Oji-Cree word for the goldeye fish - has quickly become the company's flagship operation.

The company said it has produced some high density gold showings and they've identified a number of good targets, especially in the Knoll Zone. "That's the driver of everything," said Robin Luke Webster, Goldeye's manager of corporate affairs and community relations. "We're drilling and hitting high grade (gold), so that will lead and the other stuff will follow."

The main focus of exploration has been on the northwest arm of Sandy Lake.

Last summer at Knoll, one channel sample yielded 53.8 grams of gold per tonne, and another sample at its Bernadette Zone showed 43.5 grams gold.

They turned to the drill last winter and punched 22 holes in a 2,200-metre program that produced some, eye-popping results.

One hole produced a 6.8-metre section grading 8.59 grams of gold and 2.6 metres grading at 18.96 grams. Another graded 6.71 grams over 5.5 metres and a third hole showed 6.76 metres over seven metres.

"Even before we had some assays there was so much amount of VG (visible gold) dispersed throughout the core that we had to put out a press release," said Webster.

Goldeye has held ground in the Sandy Lake area for a long time, first staking claims in 1986-87.

Webster's father, company president and CEO Blaine Webster, had his eyes on the area for many years dating back to when he was a geophysicist working with Inca's exploration team in the 1970s.

But only a minimal amount of exploration has occurred in the ensuing years.

"The local communities weren't ready for exploration to take place," said Webster.

Yet the company had the patience to put exploration on hold and tend to other projects.

"He (BlaMe) knew you can't push these things," said Robin. "The only reason we're having any success now is because we're working with the...