{"id":1123332,"date":"2019-06-26T18:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=995005"},"modified":"2019-06-26T18:04:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T18:04:52","slug":"high-grade-drill-results-send-aurion-resources-shares-to-8-month-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1123332","title":{"rendered":"High-grade drill results send Aurion Resources shares to 8-month high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest wave of drill result releases from gold miners, Aurion Resources Ltd. (TSXV: AU) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aurionresources.com\/news\/2019\/aurion-intersects-13.3-g-t-au-over-19.5-m-in-new-zone-at-aamurusko-northwest\/\">today reported<\/a> that it has intersected a wide zone of gold mineralization at its Risti project in northern Finland. This marks the second time in five months that Aurion has reported <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"high-grade results (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/canadian-gold-junior-hits-jackpot-finland-project\/\" >high-grade results<\/a> from exploration in Finland.<\/p>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Shares of the Newfoundland-based company shot up over 10% to an 8-month high of C$1.52 during Tuesday&#8217;s trading session on the latest announcement. <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s drill results signal a positive start for Aurion&#8217;s drill program recently started at Risti. The first two of ten planned drill holes at the Aamurusko Northwest (NW) prospect at Risti returned 13.31 g\/t Au over 19.54 m and 1.84 g\/t Au over 31.12 m.<\/p>\n<p>The Aamurusko NW prospect is situated in proximity to the Aamurusko main target area where several high-grade intercepts were previously reported, including 789.10 g\/t Au over 2.9 m, 42.40 g\/t Au over 4.0 m and 24.50 g\/t Au over 4.75 m.<\/p>\n<p>Geologically the Risti project in Finland has been compared by the company to several gold-rich orogenic gold belts around the world like the Timmins camp in Ontario. Aurion has been actively exploring in the Scandinavian nation since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also backed by Canadian gold miner Kinross Gold Corp. (TSX: K), which participated in Aurion&#8217;s recent <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"C$6.5 million financing (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aurionresources.com\/news\/2019\/aurion-completes-brokered-financing-and-concurrent-non-brokered-pro-rata-participation-by-kinross-gold-corporation\/\" >C$6.5 million financing<\/a> and now owns 9.98% of its shares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This marks the second time in five months that Aurion has reported high-grade results from exploration in Finland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miningcom","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1123332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123585,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123332\/revisions\/1123585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1123332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1123332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1123332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}