Newmont drops RDN (December 20, 2001)

Vancouver — Disappointing results from a second round of drilling over Rimfire Minerals‘ (RFM-V) RDN gold-silver property has prompted Newmont Mining (NEM-N) to stop work on the project in northern British Columbia.

The latest 1,140 metres of drilling comprised 5 holes into the 1.5-km-long Wedge zone conductor where earlier this year hole 17 returned up to 1.5 metres grading 3.8 grams gold per tonne and 0.18% zinc from 111 metres down-hole. The highest values came from hole 20, which cut 1 metre grading 3.88 gram gold, 0.14% copper, 1.62% lead and 5.6% zinc from 90.3 metres down-hole, and 6.2 metres grading 0.44 gram gold, 0.07% lead and 0.22% zinc from 139.8 metres down-hole.

Based on the result, the company elected to drop the project. Newmont was earning a 51% stake in the project by making cash payments of $140,000 and spending $3.5 million by the end of 2003.

Located 40 km north of the high-grade Eskay Creek gold-rich massive-sulphide mine, Newmont tested the contact between felsic volcanics and overlying mudstones. The 21-km-long property is underlain by early-to-middle Jurassic stratigraphy, which is similar in age, lithology and alteration to that hosting the Eskay Creek deposit.

Rimfire will seek a new partner for the project.

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