Diamond drilling underway. (Mining News).
A recently transplanted mining exploration company has begun
diamond drilling Diamond Drilling is a highly specialized industry used for mineral exploration around the world. Most commonly using wireline and core bits with diamond encrusted matrix. To drill holes to max depths of twelve thousand feet, for the recovery of core used in verifying mineral on one its newly acquired properties in the Timmins Timmins, town (1991 pop. 47,461), central Ont., Canada, on the Mattagami River. Timmins is the commercial center of the rich Porcupine gold-mining district, where gold was first discovered in 1909. Silver, copper, lead, and zinc are also mined. area. Liberty Mineral Exploration began drilling in early February on
their McWatters property, one of 11 the company bought in December.
Liberty had moved its operations from the Yukon last year to Ontario,
setting up a Toronto corporate office and establishing a Timmins field
office. With some of properties known to contain nickel nickel, metallic chemical element; symbol Ni; at. no. 28; at. wt. 58.69; m.p. about 1,453°C;; b.p. about 2,732°C;; sp. gr. 8.902 at 25°C;; valence 0, +1, +2, +3, or +4. deposits, the
drilling program is confirm earlier tests and look for platinum group The platinum group (alternatively, the platinum group metals or platinum metals) is a collective name sometimes used for six metallic elements clustered together in the periodic table. metals.
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