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Grande Portage geos design very ambitious program for 2023 North of 60 Mining News – June 9, 2023
A short seven-minute helicopter flight from the airport and just off the Alaska Coastal Highway, Herbert Gold is a high-grade gold project roughly 16 miles north of Juneau.
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. June 6 announced the start of its 2023 drilling program, which aims for 20,000 meters in 15 to 20 holes at the company's Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska.
Located 25 kilometers (16 miles) north of Juneau, the Herbert Gold project is an exploration stage, high-grade, gold-mineralized mesothermal quartz vein system in the historic Juneau Gold Belt.
According to a 2021 calculation, Herbert Gold hosts 3.64 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 10.23 grams per metric ton (1.2 million ounces) gold, and 5.87 g/t (686,700 oz) silver; plus 1.14 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 8.91 g/t (325,900 oz) gold, and 4.63 g/t (169,300 oz) silver.
Due to hiccups in 2022, Grande Portage has enlisted the help of NISS (Nasco Industrial Services and Supply) Global, whose clients include Hecla Mining, Rio Tinto, Barrick, and Newmont Gold, to drill up to 20,000 feet.
You can read about the company's drilling agreement with NISS at Grande Portage enlists drilling powerhouse in the March 17, 2023 edition of North of 60 Mining News.
"Our 2022 began late due to unforeseen contractor and supply chain delays," Grande Portage Resources President and CEO Ian Klassen said in November. "This, coupled with unseasonably poor and foggy weather, further interrupted the company's original drill plan."
The company aims for 2023 to be different and will utilize up to four different drill platforms to test numerous targets and satellite structures; and is considered a continuation of previous drilling, which successfully tested multiple gold-quartz veins of the Herbert mesothermal vein system with very encouraging results.
This year's program will target several geologically promising high-value targets at the Main, Goat, Deep Trench, Ridge, and Sleeping Giant veins from multiple locations and is expected to conclude in late October 2023.
"Our geological team has gone to great lengths to design a very ambitious program from 2023," said Klassen. "Our project is well situated in a historically proven and prolific gold belt. We look forward to building upon the Herbert resource, a high-grade gold system that has a current National Instrument Mineral Resource of 1.2 million ounces of gold (Indicated) at an average grade of 10.23 g/t gold and an (Inferred) resource of 325,900 ounces of gold at an average grade of 8.91 g/t gold."
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