{"id":1140653,"date":"2019-09-26T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T20:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1003000"},"modified":"2019-09-26T15:55:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T20:55:35","slug":"alacer-gold-announces-positive-drill-results-for-copler-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1140653","title":{"rendered":"Alacer Gold announces positive drill results for \u00c7\u00f6pler Saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado-based miner Alacer\u00a0Gold (TSX:ASR) (ASX:AQG) announced on Thursday <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"new exploration results (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alacergold.com\/docs\/default-source\/press-releases\/2019-09-26-copler-saddle-supporting-data-final.pdf?sfvrsn=4\" >new exploration results<\/a> for the\u00a0\u00c7\u00f6pler Saddle shear zone, which borders the western flank of the company&#8217;s flagship \u00c7\u00f6pler gold mine in\u00a0eastern Turkey.<\/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>The initial\u00a0testing\u00a0of the Saddle zone consisted of 50 diamond drill holes with a strike length of more than 2 kilometres. All holes were outside of the \u00c7\u00f6pler resource shells and planned\u00a0mining\u00a0areas.<\/p>\n<p>The reported drill holes intersected oxide and sulphide\u00a0gold\u00a0mineralization, some with impressive grades and thicknesses. Notable results include: 9.65 g\/t Au (oxide) over 22.6 metres; 4.74 g\/t Au (oxide and sulphide) over 40.8 metres; 39.45 g\/t Au (oxideand sulphide) over 5.7 metres; and 7.2 g\/t Au (oxide)\u00a0over 7.8 metres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u00c7\u00f6pler Saddle is shaping up to be another outstanding near-mine\u00a0exploration project and an important component of our short-term strategy to identify additional oxide ore that we can convert quickly into production by leveraging our existing\u00a0infrastructure,\u201d Alacer\u00a0Gold\u00a0CEO\u00a0Rod Antal\u00a0commented in Thursday&#8217;s press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Ardich already shaping up to be a major discovery, and now with the Saddle showing potential, albeit at an earlier\u00a0exploration\u00a0stage, our short-term strategy is rapidly becoming a reality,\u201d Antal added.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Alacer Gold opened 3.6% higher on Thursday. The gold miner has a market cap of approximately C$1.66 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &Ccedil;&ouml;pler Saddle is shaping up to be another outstanding near-mine exploration project, says the company.<\/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],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-1140653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miningcom","tag-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140653","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=1140653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140682,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140653\/revisions\/1140682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}