Gold veins found. (Mining and Forestry: News).
Kirkland Lake Kirkland Lake, mining town, E Ont., Canada. An important gold-mining center, gold was discovered there in 1911 and again in the 1980s at Harker. The mining of iron ore and tourism are two other important industries.'s Foxpoint Resources reports some new ore-grade intersections in its gold exploration work from its surface drilling program. Two new veins have been discovered on its Lake Shore, Wright-Hargreaves, Teck Hughes properties. The veins were found in the hanging wall of previously known South and 309 Veins and the North Vein. All are east-west trending and are accessible from the existing ramp at the surface.
The Court Vein, a newly-discovered vein located between the Teck-Hughes Mine and the Lake Shore Mine, has been defined on a pattern of 50-foot drill centres, with an open strike length of 350 feet and a maximum vertical extent of 325 feet defined to date.
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