{"id":1160618,"date":"2020-01-17T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1011631"},"modified":"2020-01-17T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T22:32:00","slug":"omineca-stakes-13-more-claims-at-wingdam-stock-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1160618","title":{"rendered":"Omineca stakes 13 more claims at Wingdam, stock soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Omineca&nbsp;Mining and Metals (TSX-V: OMM) announced Friday that it has staked an additional 36,000 hectares of mineral claims at&nbsp;Wingdam,&nbsp;British Columbia.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\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>Omineca\u00a0now holds 100% ownership of over 39,000 contiguous hectares at its\u00a0Wingdam\u00a0project, in addition to the placer claims comprising the\u00a0Wingdam\u00a0underground alluvial gold recovery project.\u00a0 \u00a0Based on the explorer\u2019s geophysical work from 2018-19 and the review of available\u00a0SKYTem\u00a0geophysical data and regional geology,\u00a0Omineca\u00a0said it has identified multiple targets for its 2020 lode gold exploration program.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p> The newly acquired claims significantly expands the inventory of target structures that will be subject to the upcoming exploration and drilling program at the\u00a0Wingdam\u00a0gold project <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The geological similarities and location parallel to the multi-million ounce\u00a0gold resource at\u00a0Osisko\u00a0Gold Royalties&#8217; Cariboo Gold Project (formerly\u00a0Barkerville\u00a0Gold Mines) provides an exciting exploration opportunity,\u00a0Omineca\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/omineca-increases-gold-exploration-claims-13-fold-at-wingdam-862248509.html\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"said in a press release (opens in a new tab)\">said in a press release<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The newly acquired claims significantly expands the inventory of target structures that will be subject to the upcoming exploration and drilling program at the&nbsp;Wingdam&nbsp;gold project.&nbsp; The program will specifically target disseminated gold mineralization within the phyllite bedrock units as well as gold associated with quartz veining found at&nbsp;Wingdam&nbsp;and the surrounding area, the company said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At market close Friday,&nbsp;Omineca\u2019s&nbsp;stock was up 50%. Shares had been traded&nbsp;294,420 times, more than 20 times the average daily volume of 13,800. The company has a C$7.6 million market capitalization.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project has geological similarities and a location parallel to the multi-million ounce gold resource at Osisko Gold Royalties&#8217; Cariboo Gold Project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"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":[2849,369],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160618"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160703,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160618\/revisions\/1160703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}