{"id":1171169,"date":"2020-03-12T07:15:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1016737"},"modified":"2020-03-12T07:15:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:15:39","slug":"falcon-gets-permit-to-drill-on-central-canada-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1171169","title":{"rendered":"Falcon gets permit to drill on Central Canada project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Falcon Gold (TSXV: FG) received an exploration and drill permit to carry out activities on the gold, silver, and copper prospects on its Central Canada project in 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, Falcon said that the permit includes > 20 drill pad locations, overburden trenching, and geophysical surveys to test historic prospects and expand the company&#8217;s geologic understanding.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>The 3,200-hectare Central Canada project consists of 13 claims located approximately 21.5 kilometres east of Atikokan, and about 160 kilometres west of Thunder Bay<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The company has also compiled multiple historic assessment reports and files that date from 1903-2017. Fieldwork and GPS location confirmation of the prospects has been completed to ensure the accuracy of the data before larger-scale drilling, trenching and geophysics is commenced,&#8221; the media brief states. <\/p>\n<p>According to Falcon, multiple gold, copper, cobalt and other metals occurrences have been discovered on the property in a variety of geological settings &#8211; none of which has been sufficiently pursued to determine their economic potential for mining. <\/p>\n<p>The miner reports that gold prospects on the project are typically associated with metavolcanics and felsic intrusive rocks which are cross-cut by quartz-porphyry dykes and sills with later-stage quartz veining. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The miner received a permit that includes &gt; 20 drill pad locations, overburden trenching, and geophysical surveys.<\/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\/1171169"}],"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=1171169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171238,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171169\/revisions\/1171238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1171169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1171169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}