{"id":1147325,"date":"2019-11-01T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1005891"},"modified":"2019-11-01T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:52:08","slug":"columbus-gold-announces-high-grade-discovery-in-french-guiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1147325","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Gold announces high-grade discovery in French Guiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus Gold (TSX: CGT) has made a <a aria-label=\"high-grade gold discovery (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/columbusgold.com\/news\/english\/2019\/columbus-announces-high-grade-gold-discovery-at-maripa-project-french-guiana\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">high-grade gold discovery<\/a> at the Maripa project in French Guiana, the company announced. Columbus has an option to acquire up to a 70% interest in Maripa.<\/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>Shares of the Vancouver-based miner jumped more than 3% to a four-week high on Friday. The company&#8217;s market capitalization currently sits at C$26.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Prospecting has identified numerous artisanal mine workings 800 metres to the south of the past-producing Changement mine, located within the northern part of the Maripa property. <\/p>\n<p>The company notes that sampling of stockpiles extracted from the mine workings returned 15 assay values above 1 g\/t gold, including seven high-grade values of 115.70 g\/t, 42.60 g\/t, 15.51 g\/t, 83.48 g\/t, 14.70 g\/t, 68.43 g\/t and 29.57 g\/t.<\/p>\n<p>The newly identified gold mineralized zone is interpreted to be distinct from the Changement mine and remains completely unexplored.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Field work in the Filon Dron and Changement areas in the last few months has already uncovered two new gold mineralized structures with high-gradepotential. The initial work confirms that the local geological setting is highly prospective and underexplored,\u201d president and CEO Rock Lefran\u00e7ois stated.<\/p>\n<p>Maripa adjoins to the south the Boulanger project being developed by Reunion Gold, where a recent <a aria-label=\"high-grade gold discovery (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/reunion-golds-shares-jump-on-high-grade-find-in-french-guiana\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">high-grade discovery<\/a> was reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maripa project adjoins to the south the Boulanger project being developed by Reunion Gold, where a recent high-grade gold discovery was reported.<\/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":"","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],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147325"}],"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=1147325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147327,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147325\/revisions\/1147327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}