Echelon covers Victoria Gold
Echelon Wealth Partners commented on today’s Victoria Gold news release,
Day: September 11, 2017
Marathon Gold Expands Senior Management, Robbert Borst to manage upcoming Preliminary Economic Assessment
Marathon Gold Corporation (Marathon or the Company) (TSX:MOZ) Marathon Gold is pleased to announce the addition of Mr. Robbert Borst to manage the companypcoming PEA. He will be starting with Marathon effective October 1, 2017.
Metallic Minerals begins Royalty Program
Metallic Minerals (V.MMG) has a press release out today announcing an option agreement to acquire 36.4 square kilometres (“km2”) of mining rights along the Australia Creek drainage, a tributary to the Indian River, in the Klondike gold district near Dawson City, Yukon. In the same release Metallic announces that it has entered into a production royalty agreement for 2.4 kilometers of that property which will give Metallic a 12% royalty on gold produced.
Peartree Securities on the Yukon
Excellent perspective piece on the Yukon mining scene by Gary Baschuk of Peartree Securities. Peartree specializes in flow through shares which finance so much of the exploration which takes place in Canadian Mining and Baschuk has seen a lot of exploration camps. It is interesting to see companies like Victoria Gold, Atac Resources and Western Copper and Gold through a finance guy’s lens.
Victoria Gold: Olive Exploration Results include 33.3 meters of 1.54 g/t Au
Victoria Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE: VIT) (“Victoria” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the receipt of additional analytical results from the on-going 2017 Dublin Gulch (the “Property”) exploration campaign. These results include seven exploration holes completed in the Olive target area in 2017, where exploration efforts concentrated on previously undrilled areas south and west of the main Olive-Shamrock Zone into which the Olive Shear Zone was interpreted to extend. These results further demonstrate the successful application of the Potato Hills Trend mineralization model on the Dublin Gulch Property and it’s ability to identify additional gold mineralization proximal to defined gold deposits.
Canadian Orebodies Intersects 32.4 Metres of 1.4g/t Au, Including 5.0 Metres of 4.2g/t Au at Wire Lake
Canadian Orebodies Inc. (the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:CORE) is pleased to announce the second batch of core assays from its summer drill campaign at the Wire Lake Project. The program consisted of twenty-two holes being drilled (WL-2017-001 to 009, 009A, and 010 to 021) totaling 3,069 metres.
NexGen Acquires Remaining 40% Interest in the Dufferin Lake Property
NexGen Energy Ltd. (“NexGen” or the “Company“) (TSX:NXE, NYSE: NXE) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement“) with Rainmaker Resources Ltd. and Eagle Trail Properties Inc. (collectively, the “Vendors“) to acquire the Vendors’ collective 40% interest in the Dufferin Lake property (the “Property“). Upon closing of the transaction, the Company will hold a 100% interest in the Property. See figure 1 for a map illustrating the location of the Property.
Tahoe Resources gets its Guatemalan licence back
Tahoe Resources Inc. (TSX: THO, NYSE: TAHO) (“Tahoe” or the “Company”) reported today that the Guatemalan Supreme Court issued a decision that reinstates the Escobal mining license of Tahoe’s Guatemalan subsidiary, Minera San Rafael (“MSR”). This decision reverses the Supreme Court’s preliminary decision to suspend MSR’s license in connection with an action brought by the anti-mining organization, CALAS, against Guatemala’s Ministry of Energy and Mines (“MEM”). CALAS alleges that MEM violated the Xinca indigenous people’s right of consultation in advance of granting the Escobal mining license to MSR. (full release here)