A newly acquired land package in Ontario’s Abitibi greenstone belt should provide plenty of exploration targets for
In early February, the company received regulatory approval to acquire the Atkinson gold prospect previously held by a senior mining company.
The overburden-covered claims are situated about 15 km south of the Detour Lake gold mine and 40 km northwest of the Casa Berardi mining camp. The five groups of claims extend over an area of 8 by 12 km, and cover known occurrences of gold, plus 17 untested geophysical anomalies. The best intersection from previous work returned 10.7 grams gold over 9 metres.
Dentonia can acquire the land package by paying staking costs, issuing 100,000 shares to the vendor, and by paying $1 million over 10 years. The junior must also spend $350,000 for a 17-hole drill program by April of next year.
Dentonia also plans to explore two newly acquired gold prospects in the Yukon portion of the Tintina-Tombstone gold belt. This belt stretches from southeastern Yukon to southwestern Alaska, and hosts numerous producing mines and multi-million-ounce gold deposits.
Work programs are expected to begin on the HY and ELF properties this June, weather permitting.
The HY property was staked in the fall of 1996. Past work has identified two gold-in-soil anomalies. A geochemical anomaly was identified on the nearby ELF property in 1999. Dentonia notes that follow-up exploration is warranted on both properties.
The proposed work program will consist of prospecting, geological and structural mapping, and if warranted, geophysical surveys to define the origin of the anomalies.
Both properties are accessible from the Nahanni Range road.
Dentonia also holds various properties near producing diamond mines in the Northwest Territories.
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