{"id":1165572,"date":"2020-02-13T18:43:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1013899"},"modified":"2020-02-13T18:43:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:43:21","slug":"great-bear-to-step-out-footprint-at-dixie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1165572","title":{"rendered":"Great Bear to step out footprint at Dixie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great Bear Resources (TSX: GBR)  has traced gold mineralization along a 4.2-km long stretch of the LP fault at its 91-sq.-km Dixie gold project in Ontario. The company now plans to test a 5-km section of this 18-km structure down to a depth of 500 metres, to cover a 2.5 sq. km panel.<\/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>Drill highlights from the latest release include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>21 metres of 10.58 g\/t gold;<\/li>\n<li>6 metres of 10.95 g\/t gold; and<\/li>\n<li>3.5 metres of 7.35 g\/t gold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe now interpret a continuous gold-mineralized zone along more than four kilometres of strike length of the LP fault, which remains open to extension,\u201d Chris Taylor, the company\u2019s president and CEO said in a release. \u201cAssay results, geology and oriented structural data suggest the zone hosts steeply-dipping \u2018sheets\u2019 of disseminated, high-grade gold mineralization with significant strike length and vertical extent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All 59 holes completed by Great Bear are along the 4.2-km section of the LP fault intersected mineralization, which remains open on strike and at depth.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 300 holes are planned for this year along the 5-km panel as part of Great Bear\u2019s fully-funded C$21 million exploration program. Four rigs are currently drilling along the LP fault with a fifth rig mobilized for regional exploration, testing new targets at Dixie and stepping out along the prospective structure.<\/p>\n<p>Great Bear initially acquired the Dixie project in 2015 and consolidated its interest to 100% in 2017.<\/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>Up to 300 holes are planned for this year as part of a C$21 million exploration program.<\/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\/1165572"}],"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=1165572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165573,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165572\/revisions\/1165573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}