{"id":1168314,"date":"2020-02-27T14:03:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T20:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1015429"},"modified":"2020-02-27T14:03:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T20:03:29","slug":"unigold-continues-to-expand-targets-at-neita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1168314","title":{"rendered":"Unigold continues to expand targets at Neita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unigold\u00a0has released the results of two holes completed at the Candelones Extension deposit, within its 226-sq.-km Neita concession in the Dominican Republic. <\/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>The latest drilling extends two targets within the Candelones Extension and suggests a new zone of stockwork sulphide mineralization.<\/p>\n<p>Drill highlights include 129.5 metres of 1.29 g\/t gold in hole LP19-138 which includes a 79.1 metre-long section of 1.9 g\/t gold within semi-massive sulphide mineralization. This hole extends the sulphide lens at Target A within the Extension deposit by 40 metres into the underlying footwall.<\/p>\n<p>Hole LP19-139 returned 117.5 metres of 1.91 g\/t gold which includes a high-grade, polymetallic 16.6 metre-long section of 3.37 g\/t gold, 12.96 g\/t silver and 2.13% zinc. <\/p>\n<p>This intercept grows the strike of Target B within the Extension by 50 metres to the east, towards Target A, suggesting that the two areas may meet at depth. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p> \u201cAssay results indicate that the tenor of the mineralization within the higher-grade systems is increasing with depth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><cite> Joe Hamilton, unigold chairman and CEO <\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This hole also intercepted a 45 metre zone of low-grade gold and copper stockwork sulphide mineralization, which is 50 metres to 100 metres into the footwall from Target B.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest results continue to demonstrate the potential of the Candelones system,\u201d Joe Hamilton, the company\u2019s chairman and CEO, said in a release. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssay results indicate that the tenor of the mineralization within the higher-grade systems is increasing with depth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company has also started a metallurgical test program with four bulk samples sent to Richmond, B.C., for the first comprehensive testing of the higher-grade material at Neita. Results are expected in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n<p>A resource estimate completed in 2013 for the Candelones deposits outlined inferred open pit oxide resources of 3.6 million tonnes at 0.98 g\/t gold for a total of 112,000 gold oz. <\/p>\n<p>Inferred open-pittable sulphide resources came in at 30.2 million tonnes at 1.5 g\/t gold for a total of 1.46 million oz. of gold. <\/p>\n<p>An additional report released in 2015 estimated inferred sulphide resources for underground extraction of 5.3 million tonnes grading 5.27 g\/t gold for a total of 894,000 gold oz. Current resources are contained within the Candelones Extension, Main and Connector deposits.<\/p>\n<p>Unigold announced a 20,000 metre drill program for Neita in October 2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article first appeared at the <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Canadian Mining Journal (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianminingjournal.com\/\" ><em>Canadian Mining Journal<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company released the results of two holes completed at the Candelones Extension deposit in the Dominican Republic.<\/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\/1168314"}],"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=1168314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168318,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168314\/revisions\/1168318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}