Toronto-based Wesdome Gold Mines continues to intersect high grades as drilling goes on at the Kiena mine complex in Val d'Or. Drills are testing the Kiena Deep A zone, with excellent results not yet reflected in a resource estimate.
Ongoing drilling is expanding the Kiena Deep A zone both up and down plunge. Here are some highlights:
Hole 6404: 18.2 g/t gold over 11.0 metres core length (18.2 g/t gold cut, 6.0 metres true width) A2 zone;Hole 6406: 66.4 g/t gold over 10.4 metres core length (23.4 g/t gold cut, 5.2 metres true width);Hole 6419: 16.8 g/t gold over 9.1 metres core length (16.8 g/t gold cut, 8.5 metres true width);Hole 6421: 51.3 g/t gold over 10.3 metres core length (25.0 g/t gold cut, 3.1 metres true width);Hole 6427: 18.3 g/t gold over 12.9 metres core length (18.3 g/t gold cut, 4.8 metres true width); andHole 6446: 81.3 g/t gold over 3.1 metres core length (24.8 g/t gold cut, 3.0 metres true width).Gold was first discovered at what became the Kiena gold mine and mill in 2011, and its history has been on-again/off-again since then. Wesdome restarted production in August 2006, and the mine yielded 1.8 million tonnes of ore averaging 3.4 g/t gold for 200,000 oz. recovered before it was again closed in 2013. The Kiena Deep discovery came in 2016.
(This article first appeared in the Canadian Mining Journal)