{"id":1160691,"date":"2020-01-19T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T17:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1011682"},"modified":"2020-01-19T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T17:55:34","slug":"pancon-selected-to-explore-superfund-designated-brewer-gold-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1160691","title":{"rendered":"Pancon selected to explore Superfund-designated Brewer gold mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian miner Pancontinental Resources (TSXV: PUC) and American engineering company Environmental Risk Transfer were selected in a competitive process to explore the former Brewer gold mine in South Carolina, near Pancon\u2019s Jefferson project.<\/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>Brewer is located 12 kilometres northeast and along trend from OceanaGold\u2019s (TSX, ASX: OGC) Haile gold mine, on the underexplored Carolina Slate Belt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Pancontinental, gold was discovered at the site in the early 1800s. Between 1987-1995, Brewer produced 178,000 ounces of oxide gold from open pits that extended to 50-metre depths, where copper and gold-rich sulfides were exposed but could not be processed by the oxide heap leach processing facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Based on documents archived at the U.S. Geological Survey, it is possible that Brewer contains a large porphyry copper-gold system at depth, as indicated by widely known prospective geology, including diatreme breccias, as well as by associated high sulphidation alteration, gold and copper mineralization, and geophysics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/rsw-800cg-true-300x227.jpeg\" alt=\"Pancon selected to explore Superfund-designated Brewer gold mine\" class=\"wp-image-1011685\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/rsw-800cg-true-300x227.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/rsw-800cg-true-768x581.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/rsw-800cg-true.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption><em>(Image courtesy of  Brewer Gold Receiver)<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a press release, the Toronto-based company said that the team selected to work in North Carolina includes the geologists that discovered Brewer\u2019s near-surface oxide gold mineralization 40 years ago. These experts also discovered the high-grade, near-surface Buzzard gold project, on trend less than a kilometre southwest of Brewer, and they also intersected near-surface gold mineralization at Jefferson in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Brewer was explored up to 1997. Two years later, England\u2019s Brewer Gold Company abandoned the site and left the responsibility of land reclamation activities in the hands of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Later on, in 2005, Brewer was designated a Superfund site.<\/p>\n<p>This is where Environmental Risk Transfer comes in. Given the status of the mine and the fact that its previous owners did not address conditions posing environmental risks, the St. Louis-based firm will work on mitigating the impacts of mining activities in surrounding areas based on the expertise it has gained at the Missouri Cobalt mine. There, Environmental Risk transformed a formerly contaminated site into a hub of economic activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPancon and ERT worked together since March 2019 to win the competitive selection process led by the Brewer Gold Receiver,\u201d Layton Croft, the miner\u2019s president and CEO, said in the media brief. \u201cWe are ready to quickly investigate this underexplored project, with the goal of discovering new oxide gold mineralization and the underlying copper-gold porphyry system by 2021.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian miner joined forces with Environmental Risk Transfer with the goal of discovering the mine&rsquo;s underlying copper-gold porphyry system.<\/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],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160691"}],"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=1160691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160692,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160691\/revisions\/1160692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}