Will Robinson, VP of Exploration at West Red Lake Gold Mines (TSX.V:WRLG – OTCQB:WRLGF), joins me to focus on the potential of further exploring the Fork Deposit for a potential mining scenario, as a high-grade underground satellite deposit adjacent to the Madsen Mine, in the Red Lake district of Ontario, Canada.
We start getting into the historic work completed at the Fork deposit, which currently contains over 70,000 ounces of gold in all categories: An Indicated mineral resource of 20,900 ounces (“oz”) grading 5.3 grams per tonne (“g/t”) gold (“Au”), with an additional Inferred resource of 49,500 oz grading 5.2 g/t Au.
Their exploration and engineering teams have recently completed a re-evaluation of the Fork deposit pointing to its shallow, high-grade, low-plunging zone of gold mineralization that is located approximately 250 meters southwest from existing underground development at Madsen. Will outlines that they would like to do about another 2,000-3,000 meters of definition drilling from surface, since those would be shallow holes, to better define some of the high-grade areas of mineralization and look for extensions.
FORK DRILLING HIGHLIGHTS (HISTORIC):
- Hole RUM-08-49 Intersected 13.05m @ 13.97 g/t Au, from 107.65m to 120.7m, Including 3.63m @ 30.79 g/t Au, from 110.37m to 114.00m, Also including 1.97m @ 32.55 g/t Au, from 118.73m to 120.70m.
- Hole PDM04-318 Intersected 9.3m @ 8.14 g/t Au, from 128.1m to 137.4m, Including 0.7m @ 85.70 g/t Au, from 128.1m to 128.8m, Also including 0.6m @ 21.3 g/t Au, from 136.8m to 137.4m.
- Hole RUM-08-68 Intersected 1.3m @ 50.48 g/t Au, from 95.7m to 97.0m, Including 0.2m @ 169.09 g/t Au, from 95.8m to 96.0m, Also including 0.4m @ 53.27 g/t Au, from 96.2m to 96.6m.Hole PG14-011 Intersected 3.5m @ 17.18 g/t Au, from 152.5m to 156.0m, Including 1.6m @ 33.80 g/t Au, from 154.4m to 156.0m.
Will outlines that if that further drilling were to demonstrate that it was economically viable to drift over to the Fork Deposit from the existing underground infrastructure near McVeigh, then it could be brought into a mining scenario with about 2 months of underground development. This makes Fork a compelling area of focus as could be brought into the mine plan earlier than some of the other exploration targets of focus.
If you have any follow up questions for Will or the team over at West Red Lake Gold please email me at Shad@kereport.com.
- In full disclosure, Shad is shareholder of West Red Lake Gold Mines at the time of this recording.
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