A follow-up exploration program, including diamond drilling, will begin shortly at the Worcester mine project, a former producer in the Barberton gold belt of South Africa.
Operator Noble Peak Resources (NPK-A) holds a 200-sq.-km land package in the greenstone belt, which historically has produced 10 million oz. gold from several mines.
The company’s Worcester mine turned out 200,000 oz. of the yellow metal at an average grade of 8-10 grams gold per tonne before closing in 1920. The current program will resume testing quartz veins hosting gold mineralization.
Earlier this year, Noble Peak reported that a 1-metre section from hole 14W1 assayed 3,647 grams gold per tonne (106 oz. per ton). Other intervals from the hole returned much lower grades over narrow widths, including 2 metres of 1.67 grams, 1 metre of 2.59 grams, 0.5 metre of 1.78 grams, 0.5 metre of 0.59 gram and 1 metre of 0.56 gram.
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