{"id":1170889,"date":"2020-03-11T07:10:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1016616"},"modified":"2020-03-11T07:10:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T13:10:46","slug":"la-salle-to-kick-off-exploration-campaign-in-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1170889","title":{"rendered":"La Salle to kick off exploration campaign in Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LaSalle Exploration (TSXV: LSX) announced that it is about to kick off a field exploration program on its Blakelock gold property in northeastern Ontario.<\/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>In a press release, LaSalle said the campaign is fully funded from the company&#8217;s oversubscribed IPO that raised $1.94 million. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>LaSalle acquired Blakelock from Pan American Silver subject to a $400,000 exploration expenditure by LaSalle and a retained 2% net smelter returns royalty with a buydown to 1%<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The program will include approximately 40-line kilometres of deep penetrating induced polarization surveying on several areas deemed as high potential for the extension of known gold zones, up-ice of basal till gold anomalies not yet tested, and over unexplored areas of the property. A summer program consisting of geological mapping, prospecting and geochemical sampling is also planned.<\/p>\n<p>The 3700-hectare Blakelock project is located in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt and covers 15 kilometres of the Casa Berardi Break, 55 kilometres west of the multi-million ounce, high-grade Casa Berardi gold mine operated by Hecla Mining. <\/p>\n<p>According to La Salle, the CBB, interpreted from airborne magnetics and rock sequences similar to those hosting the Casa Berardi mine, traverses the central portion of the property. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company will be assessing the potential of the Blakelock gold property.<\/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\/1170889"}],"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=1170889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170890,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170889\/revisions\/1170890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}