Trade Winds Ventures begins phase one of diamond drill program.Trade Winds Ventures Inc. has begun the first phase of a 4,000-metre winter 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 program on near-surface targets on the M Zone of the Detour Lake Block A Project, 160 km northeast “Northeastern” redirects here. For the Boston college, see Northeastern University, Boston. Northeast or north east is the ordinal direction halfway between north and east. It is the opposite of southwest. See boxing the compass. of 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. . Two diamond drills will operate around the clock on the site, drilling 26 holes in the western sector of the project in order to further define and upgrade the gold resource. An official resource estimate for the site was completed in October October: see month. 2006, while the new zone was discovered in late winter. The resource estimate, conducted by Golder Associates Ltd., outlined an indicated resource of 14,158,000 tonnes grading 1.77 grams of gold per tonne tonne measure of weight or mass; 1 tonne=1000 kg. See also ton. , containing 804,321 ounces of gold. The inferred mineral resource of 24,796,000 grades 1.88 grams gold per tonne contains 1,499,552 ounces of gold. An additional 8,000 metres of drilling on Block A is currently slated for 2007 in order to test the eastern portion of the property as well as a near-surface structure in the Main Zone. |
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