A 25-ton-per- day pilot mill has started bulk sampling at Bighorn Development’s and Wydmar Development’s Island Lake gold project in northern Manitoba.
The mill is processing a 3,000-ton bulk sample, 500 tons from surface and 2,500 tons from underground.
Ore extracted from a pit on the surface of the Main vein, (12 ft wide by 8 ft deep by 40 ft long) has given signficantly higher assays than expected. Average grade is 0.6 oz gold per ton, much higher than the 0.1 oz predicted for the 40-ft length from channel sampling, J. Wyder, president of both companies, reports.
“It is expected that it will be about two weeks before the mill is running efficiently and the 2,500- ton underground bulk sample test can be started,” Wyder says. The bulk test should be completed by the end of June.
The companies have spent $5 million so far on 35,000 ft of diamond drilling, trenching, channel sampling and custom milling.
Proven and drill-indicated reserves are 500,000 tons grading 0.3 oz, with an additional drill- inferred 1.5 million tons grading 0.3 oz.
Bighorn has a 30% interest and an option to earn an additional 10% interest. Wydmar also has a 30% interest and the right to earn another 30% interest by funding the exploration program.
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