Morning Briefing: New Drilling Results from American Pacific Mining, Arizona Metals and Orla Mining
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Today is Thursday, October 31st. Happy Halloween everyone. May you eat your weight in candy today.
Wednesday saw yet another all-time high for gold, as it closed at $2795 on the Comex and $2799 in the afternoon Globex settlement, up $12 from Tuesday. Gold turtle-headed over $2800 twice between midnight and early afternoon. Contrary to gold, silver began heading downhill mid-evening Tuesday, fishing lined when the stock market opened to as low as $33.56 before bouncing to close in the afternoon at $33.93, down 70 cents from Tuesday.
The Mining Stock Journal noted that the action in gold was likely in response to the sell-off in the US dollar while silver's price decline was likely connected to its use as an industrial metal and the sharp decline in the stock market. The mining stocks seemed to ignore the price action and gold and decided to correlate with silver and the rest of the stock market. GDX was down 1.21%
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And Here’s what you need to know this morning…..
American Pacific Mining reported assay results from the first 7 holes at the company’s Palmer copper-zinc VMS project in Alaska. Results from today’s results were highlighted with 16.4m of 5.1% CuEq, which included 10.4m of 7.3% CuEq in hole 194. Hole 193 returned 3.5% of 1.9% CuEq while hole 192 had 2.9m of 3.8% CuEq. The 2024 drill program included a total of 6,035.9 metres in nineteen (19) drill holes including three (3) drill holes that were recollared. The drill program was designed to continue infill drilling and testing the extents of the high-grade copper-zinc mineralization of the South Wall Zone 1 and Zone 2-3. The program is funded by a JV partnership between Dowa Metals and American Pacific. (CSE: USGD) (OTCQX: USGDF) News Release
Arizona Metals has drilled a discovery hole in a new lens of mineralization in the Kay deposit on the Kay Mine Project in Arizona. The drill hole, Number 166, returned 50.0 m grading 6.65 g/t AuEq, including 6.9 m @ 12.69 g/t AuEq, outside the north edge of previously known mineralization. The new zone of mineralization, called the Kay2 Zone, is located approximately 100 m north of previously drilled mineralization in the Kay deposit. Mineralization consists of semi-massive to massive sulfide similar to the extensive drilled intercepts throughout the Kay deposit. Additional drilling suggests that this is a new lens in the larger and expanding Kay deposit system. With the completion of recent drill holes, Arizona Metals has drilled a total of 122,000 meters on the Property. The company noted that there are three active drills on the property with two of them devoted to the Kay2 Zone to test its extent. They expect the Kay2 Zone to contribute to the upcoming mineral resource estimate for the Kay deposit. (TSX:AMC) (OTCQX:AZMCF) News Release
Metals Creek Resources announced the results from the third hole of the recently completed diamond drilling program at the Tillex Copper Project located in Currie Township, 65 km east of Timmins, Ontario and approximately 45 km from the Kidd Creek Met site. Hole 22 was an undercut of hole 21 and returned a down hole intercept of 92m of 2.12% Cu and 12.18 g/t silver. Within that broad intercept, there was a sub-interval of 18.4m of 4% Cu. All holes have been released from this program. These results are currently being compiled, the geological modelling refined and planning is currently underway for potential future drilling. (TSXV: MEK) News Release
Vista Gold today announced additional results from Phase 2 of its 2024 drilling program at the Company’s Mt Todd gold project located in Northern Territory, Australia. Hole 25 Returned multiple mineralized intervals, including
8.0 meters at 1.20 grams of gold per tonne (“g Au/t) from 22.5 meters downhole
20.8 meters at 1.96 g Au/t from 142.5 meters downhole,
Hole 27 returned multiple mineralized intervals near surface, including
15.0 meters at 0.77 g Au/t from 37.0 meters downhole
2.3 meters at 2.09 g Au/t from 59.7 meters downhole
Hole 28 returned multiple mineralized intervals near surface, including
12.0 meters at 0.96 g Au/t from 25.0 meters downhole
4.0 meters at 2.49 g Au/t from 71.2 meters downhole
Phase 2 drilling is focused on the shallow portion of the SXL. Phase 2 drilling continues in the South Cross Lode zone a narrower mineralized structure with high-grade intercepts that is adjacent to the Batman deposit and presently extends up to 400 meters northeast. The company notes that Phase 2 of the drilling program is expected to be completed by the end of this year with plans to update the Mt Todd mineral resource estimate towards an eventual feasibility study. (NYSE American and TSX: VGZ) News Release
Orla Mining provided an update on exploration work at the South Railroad Project. The company says significant gold intercepts indicate strong potential to expand oxide gold mineralization beyond the projected open pit boundaries and extend the projected mine life at the Pinion and Dark Star deposits. Higher grade sulphide gold mineralization is also being encountered. Recent drilling results from Dark Star include 45.7m of .67 g/t Au, 12.2m of 1.25 g/t and 19.8m of .77 g/t, all within oxide material from hole 1. That same hole hit sulphide material with 16.8m of 3.65 g/t Au. At Pinion, drilling returned 37.6m of 1.15 g/t and 44.7m of .77 g/t Au. The remaining drill metres will target additional exploration prospects across the South Carlin Complex. As of September 30th, approximately 13,000 metres of the 20,000m of the planned drilling had been completed. Drilling activities are expected to continue through the end of the season, with further drilling planned at Dark Star and other satellite deposits in the southern part of the property. (TSX: OLA) (NYSE: ORLA) News Release
Defiance Silver has extended the San Acacio Silver Project option agreement. The company and the vender have agreed to extend the term of its option to acquire 100% of the San Acacio property in the Zacatecas district. As a result of this amendment, the scheduled payment due September 27, 2024, has now been changed to December 31, 2024. Defiance has also acquired 6 new licenses at the Tepal project. The company believes the structural controls of the porphyry style mineralization at the Tepal project extend to these newly acquired concessions. (TSXV: DEF) (OTCQX: DNCVF) News Release
Scorpio Gold have appointed Leo Hathaway to its advisory panel. Leo Hathaway, P. Geo., is a Professional Geologist with 30 years of experience in the mineral exploration industry and is currently Executive Chairman of Golden Shield Resources Inc. and Senior Vice President of Lumina Gold Corp. (TSXV: SGN) (OTCQB: SRCRF) News Release
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