Hawthorne Gold Corp (TSX-V: HGC) said that eight diamond drill holes have been completed, totaling 409.49 metres, on the Taurus zone in the Cassiar gold camp, northern British Columbia. Drilling has now shifted to multiple targets on Table Mountain to define additional high-grade underground gold zones similar to the East Bain zone.
The planned drilling program at the Cassiar gold camp is expected to total up to 10,000 metres during the summer of 2009.
President and CEO Richard Barclay said: "We are pleased with the progress after less than three weeks on site. We have a busy season ahead and our technical team has now commenced the second phase of drilling to test many new targets identified from the recently completed fully digitally compiled geological model. The model has opened our eyes to the true potential of this historic gold camp.”
The goal of the Taurus zone drilling is to delineate a targeted small-tonnage, higher grade surface gold zone, for supplemental mill feed to the permitted Cassiar gold mining operation. Recent drilling encountered similar mineralization as described in historical drilling within the area.
Drill core from the Taurus zone has been sent for assaying and to initiate metallurgical test work to ensure the mineralization is amenable to processing through the mill facility at the Cassiar mine.
If the results are positive, Hawthorne will move forward with the extraction of a 10,000 tonne bulk sample from the target zone and stockpile the mineralized material next to the mill.
A National Instrument 43-101 mineral resource estimate gives the East Bain zone 20,101 tonnes grading 21.21 grams per ton of gold containing 13,708 ounces indicated and 1,158 tonnes grading 68.57 g/t Au containing 2,552 ounces inferred.
Hawthorne's goal is to become a junior gold producer by working towards production at the Cassiar gold mine in the fourth quarter of 2009 or the first quarter of 2010 and to continue resource development of the nearby Taurus deposit, as well as the Frasergold deposit in the south central British Columbia Cariboo region.
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