{"id":1153214,"date":"2019-12-03T14:28:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T20:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1008319"},"modified":"2019-12-03T14:28:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T20:28:21","slug":"kirkland-lake-hits-high-grades-at-fosterville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1153214","title":{"rendered":"Kirkland Lake hits high grades at Fosterville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following closely on the news of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianminingjournal.com\/news\/gold-kirkland-lake-to-acquire-detour-gold\/\">acquisition of Detour Gold<\/a>, Kirkland Lake Gold has released a slew of exploration results from its high-grade Fosterville underground mine in Victoria, Australia.<\/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 drilling program targeted four areas at Fosterville: the Lower Phoenix area down-plunge of the high-grade Swan zone, Cygnet, Harrier and Robbin\u2019s Hill. The 206 underground drill holes reported (totalling 51,521 metres) were completed since December 2018.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Kirkland Lake expects Fosterville to produce between 570,000 and 610,000 oz gold for the year<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In the high-grade Swan zone, key intercepts included 87.6 g\/t gold over 7.6 metres (estimated true width of 5.5 metres); 45 g\/t over 5.2 metres (4.7 metres); and 59.1 g\/t gold over 5 metres (4.7 metres). The results extend mineralization at Swan 80 metres down-plunge.<\/p>\n<p>The results also extended the Lower Phoenix gold system over 950 metres down-plunge of the Swan zone. Highlighted results in the Lower Phoenix area included 14.8 g\/t gold over 5.9 metres (4.5 metres estimated true width) and 6.2 g\/t gold over 18 metres (13.8 metres).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s results focus on the Lower Phoenix area,\u201d said Kirkland Lake president and CEO Tony Makuch in a release. \u201cThey are encouraging as they include the extension of high-grade, visible gold-bearing mineralization 80 metres down-plunge of the Swan Zone and demonstrate that Lower Phoenix is an extremely large gold system, with continuity of the system having been confirmed to over 950 metres down-plunge of our deepest mineral reserves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Makuch noted drilling at the Cygnet zone also returned strong results, including high-grade, visible gold bearing mineralization in a hole that returned 239 g\/t gold over 1.2 metres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch results provide significant resource growth potential immediately adjacent to existing underground infrastructure,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The mine\u2019s most recent estimate in February 2019 reported proven and probable reserves of 2.7 million oz. gold contained in 2.7 million tonnes grading 31 g\/t gold. Included in that estimate, the Swan zone contains reserves of 2.34 million oz. gold in 1.5 million tonnes grading 49.6 g\/t gold.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkland Lake expects Fosterville to produce between 570,000 and 610,000 oz. gold for the year.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article first appeared in the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianminingjournal.com\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Canadian Mining Journal<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drilling program targeted four areas at Fosterville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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\/1153214"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153215,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153214\/revisions\/1153215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}