{"id":1132012,"date":"2019-08-12T08:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=999056"},"modified":"2019-08-12T08:20:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:20:24","slug":"columbus-advances-maripa-gold-project-in-french-guiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1132012","title":{"rendered":"Columbus advances Maripa gold project in French Guiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian gold exploration and development company Columbus Gold (TSX:CGT) reported that, by late August, its field crew expects to complete the relogging of the historical drill core and validate the database for future resource estimates at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/columbus-gold-buy-70-stake-maripa-project-iamgold\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Maripa gold project (opens in a new tab)\">Maripa gold project<\/a> in French Guiana.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a press release, Columbus said that in conjunction with this work, field validation of drill hole locations and prospecting is being conducted over priority drill targets.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Past exploration at Maripa includes 134 core holes, for a total of 9,000 metres, which partially defined five broad gold zones<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In detail, its experts are currently focused on a prospect called Filon Dron, which was tested by only 10 holes and returned two of the best gold intersections at Maripa, namely 4.3 g\/t gold over 36 metres and 2.5 g\/t gold over 25.5 metres.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurface oxidation is deep over the prospect with 80 to 100 metres of saprolite cover, which increases the potential for oxide ore,\u201d the company\u2019s media brief states.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver-based miner also said that by year-end, it expects to complete the interpretation of the five partially drill-defined gold zones previously identified on the project; plan and commence a 5,000-metre confirmation and extension drill program on select prospects; and acquire additional regional data for geological interpretation and targeting.<\/p>\n<p>Maripa is located in eastern French Guiana, 50 kilometres south of the capital city of Cayenne. According to Columbus, the geological setting of the project is similar to IAMGOLD\u2019s world-class Rosebel gold mine, located in neighboring Suriname.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The project is made up of five contiguous exploration permits and has a historic gold production of around 40,000 ounces of gold, mined between 1985 and 1996.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By late August, the company&#8217;s field crew expects to complete the relogging of the historical drill core and validate the database for future resource estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"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":"","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":"","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-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-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-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-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-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-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132012"}],"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\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132020,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132012\/revisions\/1132020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}