Great Bear Expands the LP Fault Gold Zone
Welcome to Mining Stock Daily. I am Trevor Hall.
Today is Wednesday August 25th.
Gold declined steadily Monday evening into early Tuesday morning, testing $1800, until it bounced from what appears to be solid demand for physical gold from India. This thought is reinforced by the fact that, between the London a.m. fix and the Comex paper gold open, the gold price rallied to as high as $1812 before fading back down to $1805 in the U.S. p.m. hours, when the fake gold Comex market is the only gold trading venue open. Silver on the other hand moved from $23.60 late Monday night to as high as $23.95, mounting a challenge on $24, before profit-taking in paper silver trading pushed the price back down a bit to the $23.89 settlement. The gold/silver ratio fell to 75.69, which is down from the YTD high of 77 on Friday. The Mining Stock Journal noted that options expiration for the September silver futures contract is this Thursday. Interestingly, the open interest structure for the near-money strike prices suggests that silver could close somewhere between $24.25 and $24.50. This is based on assuming the that banks are short the majority of the open interest, which is usually a valid assumption. The mining stocks were choppy on Tuesday, oscillating in a tight range around Monday's close. GDX closed basically unchanged. End of summer doldrums have set in and the Mining Stock Journal expects no excitement until after the Labor Day holiday.
We’ll get to the news out of the miners and explorers in a moment, but first a quick mention of today’s sponsor.
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And here’s what you need to know this morning.
Great Bear Resources reported more drill results today from their ongoing 2021 exploration program on the Dixie Project in Red Lake. These results targeted the previously underexplored northwestern and southeastern areas of the 4.2 kilometre Phase 1 drill grid. Results expand and characterize the zone outboard from the Central LP Fault, which had seen the highest density Phase 1 drilling prior to this release. gold controls have been identified along the LP Fault. Drilling has confirmed these controls in several areas, which will facilitate targeting of high-grade gold during Phase 2 drilling below the current 450 metre drill depth, and elsewhere along strike. Bulk tonnage style gold mineralization has also been confirmed as continuous along more than 3 kilometres of strike length of the LP Fault and remains open to extension. 73 new drill hole results were released today, and a few of those highlights included 15 g/t gold over 4 meters from 545 meters downhole and 150 g/t over .8 meters starting at 331 meters downhole. A full list of results will be found on this morning’s news release. And we are scheduled to connect with CEO Chris Taylor later today for his comments. Great Bear trades on the TSX Venture with GBR and on the OTCQX with GTBAF. News Release
Discovery Silver provided results from the final drill holes that will be used to support the new resource estimate on its flagship Cordero silver project located in Chihuahua State, Mexico. Results reported today included 217.3 meters averaging 194 g/t silver equivalent and 25.5 meters averaging 404 g/t silver equivalent. The resource update is scheduled for completion toward the end of this quarter and will be followed by an updated PEA in 4Q 2021. Discovery Silver trades on the TSX Venture with DSV and on the OTCQX with DSVSF. News Release
Snowline Gold announced additional results from its ongoing Phase I drilling of the Jupiter Zone on its Einarson project in the Yukon Territory, Canada. Two distinct intervals of gold in hole J-21-011 indicate the discovery of an in-situ gold system. The assays from hole 11 returned two gold intervals within broader anomalous gold haloes, including 13.2 g/t gold over 6.5 meters and10.4 g/t gold over 5 meters. These two intervals come from the broader hole grading 1.14 g/t over 163.5 meters. Assays remain pending for 10 additional holes. Snowline Gold trades on the CSE with SGD and on the OTCQB with SNWGF. News Release
Outback Goldfields announced they have commenced diamond dirling at the Golden Jacket target on the company’s Yeungroon property in central Victorian Goldfields of Australia. These initial holes are designed to test for extensions of reef-hosted gold mineralization as well as to provide valuable insights into structural controls along the highly-prospective Golden Jacket fault. This initial program consists of four planned holes designed to test the high-grade gold potential along strike and below the historic Golden Jacket mine. Historic small-scale production from the Golden Jacket mine was reportedly 1,400 ounces of gold at approximately 250 grams per tonne. The planned drill holes at the Golden Jacket mine will represent the first ever drill holes to investigate the structural controls on quartz reef-hosted mineralization along the fault. Outback Goldfields trades on the CSE with OZ. News Release
Mantaro Silver announced it has entered into a property option agreement with Minera Golden Hill S.R.L. and Luis Fernando Kinn Cortez to acquire up to an 80% interest in the advanced Golden Hill Property, located in the underexplored, orogenic Bolivian Shied, Bolivia. The Golden Hill Property comprises of one concession totaling 4,468 hectares and offers direct access through the historic mining town of San Ramon. The company says the property is permitted for mining and drilling throughout the concession and comes with 3 high-priority gold targets. Mantaro Silver trades on the TSX Venture with MSLV. News Release
That’s it for the news briefing this morning. We have a couple of great interviews coming your way later today.
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