Amador County – Sutter Gold Mining announced recently that it plans core drilling in an effort to expand its “Lincoln Mine” base and the project’s life.
Vancouver, British Columbia-based Sutter Gold Mining Incorporated announced Oct. 13 that its Board of Directors approved an exploration drilling program of 10,255 feet at the Lincoln Mine Project located in Sutter Creek.
Robert Hutmacher, Chief Financial Officer released details of the plan, which intends to “meaningfully expand mine-able resources from filling gaps in the current resource model.” It will test “known mineralized zones and structures which could extend the initial mine life significantly beyond the five years indicated in the Project Preliminary Economic Assessment.”
Hutmacher said plans are to drill 30 “well-placed, large-diameter” and “angle core holes covering a strike length of 3,000 feet,” to “mine two distinct segments of the known gold mineralization, the northern Comet segment and the southern Lincoln segment, both of which are open at their northern and upper known limits as defined by previous core drilling and sublevel exploration workings.” The holes will be relatively shallow, averaging slightly less than 350 feet in length.
The drilling program is expected to “significantly increase the resource base that can be mined from the current mine plan” in the “central 4,000-feet-long portion of the 3.6-mile-long property held by the company. Exploration on the remainder of Sutter’s properties will be conducted in the future after results obtained from this program are fully evaluated.”
Steve Zahony, Vice President of Exploration said it will be the first core drilling on the property since 2007 and is targeted at obvious regions in the resource model.
Zahony said: “While this exploration will take place in the area of the current mine plan we also have some big picture thinking to do on exploring targets on the main Mother Lode structure to the Melones Fault to the east” and “regional structures to the west are also being considered as exploration targets.”
He said “application of modern, systematic exploration offers the potential of making new discoveries that would be significantly enhanced with an operating mine in the immediate vicinity.”
Hutmacher said “surface construction of the site infrastructure has begun with the removal of the existing temporary multifunction building and relocation of all tools and supplies. The contract for tree removal has been issued to Amador Mechanical Incorporated, which also did the recent building demolition.
“Doug Veerkamp General Engineering Incorporated has been selected via bid process for the site grading, including the construction of the Waste Rock Pile, Tailings Processing Area, Entrance Facilities and the road to the Surface Fill Unit,” Hutmacher said.
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