Partners drill Boston deposit at Hope Bay in Nunavut

Infill drilling of the Boston deposit in Nunavut by Hope Bay Gold (HGC-T) and Miramar Mining (MAE-T) is confirming results obtained by previous owner BHP (BHP-N).

The best new result came from hole S268, which intercepted 43.9 grams gold per tonne over a true width of 3 metres at the deposit’s southern end, at a depth of about 180 metres from surface. More results are pending.

Based on last year’s drilling, the Boston deposit contains a measured and indicated resource of 1.3 million tonnes averaging 15.2 grams gold, or 651,000 contained ounces, plus more material in the inferred category.

Ongoing reverse-circulation (RC) drilling, farther south of Boston at the Domani and Miksa targets, is indicating additional gold mineralization, and more drilling is planned.

At Domani, 5 km south of Boston, 10 RC holes have been completed in four separate areas of the 2.6-km-long Domani trend. Six holes at the southern and central portion of the trend intersected wide zones of dolomite-to-sericite altered basalts — a combination that is said to be a favourable host for gold mineralization.

At Miksa, 1.5 km south of Boston, the shear structures of Boston and Domani are speculated to converge, possibly creating a favourable setting for gold mineralization.

So far, 48 shallow RC holes at Miksa have delineated two areas of anomalous gold and arsenic coincident with iron-carbonate alteration, quartz veins and sulphides. A 7-hole, 1,000-metre program of core drilling will test the most favourable parts of the Miksa trend.

The RC rig has now moved to the Chicago target, 11 km southwest of Boston, where it will test the potential for volcanogenic-massive-sulphide gold-silver mineralization hosted in felsic volcanics.

Drilling was also completed recently at the Doris Connector and is continuing on the Naartok-Matrim trend.

Meanwhile, Miramar has taken on a new director, Catherine McLeod-Seltzer, president of Pacific Rim Mining (pfg-t).

The amount of damages sought by a group of residents of Port Colborne, Ont., in a class-action lawsuit filed against Inco and others is $750 million, not $750,000 as stated in our April 2-8 issue.