EXPLORATION ROUNDUP — Another season wraps up at Meliadine West

With $16.2 million having been spent on exploration there to date, the Meliadine West gold project in the Northwest Territories is being advanced from exploration to the prefeasibility stage. The project is a joint venture operated by Australian-based Western Mining Corp. (WMC).

Situated 15 km north of Rankin Inlet in the Nunavat region, Meliadine West is held 22% each by Comaplex Minerals (CMF-T) and Cumberland Resources (CBD-T). WMC owns the remaining 56% and has an option to buy an additional 2% working interest from each of Comaplex and Cumberland.

Results from this season’s 32,770-metre drill program are being compiled for intial resource modelling and engineering of the zones. The work program focused mainly on resources in the Tiriruniak zone, where 104 holes have been drilled to date. Of these, 81 intersected gold mineralization in at least one of three sub-parallel horizons on which resource calculations are being conducted.

The deepest hole drilled to date (600 vertical metres below surface), DDH-177, returned 4 metres grading 3.36 grams gold per tonne, as well as 1 metre of 24.86 grams and 5.5 metres of 6.6 grams. This hole is 150 metres deeper than, and 300 metres west of, hole 140, which previously hit 13.37 grams gold over 29.9 metres.