{"id":1189540,"date":"2020-06-10T16:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1026809"},"modified":"2020-06-10T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T21:22:24","slug":"eastmain-options-lac-lessard-in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1189540","title":{"rendered":"Eastmain options Lac Lessard in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eastmain Resources&nbsp;has optioned its Lac Lessard platinum group metals project in Quebec to a private company.<\/p>\n<p>Under the option agreement, Eastmain has received an initial option payment of C$85,000. <\/p>\n<p>In order to earn a 100% interest in the project, the vendor needs to spend at least C$100,000 on exploration and make a C$100,000 payment within 12 months of the agreement. Eastmain will keep a 2% NSR (net smelter return) royalty on any material mined and sold from this site. Half of this royalty may be purchased for C$500,000 to reduce it to a 1% NSR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to monetize another one of Eastmain\u2019s non-core assets,\u201d Blair Schultz, the company\u2019s interim president and CEO, said in a release. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe option allows our team to focus our exploration efforts on our highly prospective James Bay properties. We are casting a wide exploration net on our Reservoir, Radisson and Clearwater properties this summer\/fall and will utilize funds from this option towards these programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lac Lessard is 15 km northeast of the Eastmain Mine property, optioned to&nbsp;Benz Mining. In May, Eastmain also&nbsp;optioned the Ruby Hill East and West&nbsp;properties directly west of the Eastmain Mine to Benz. Lac Lessard features an intrusive complex prospective for platinum group metals.<\/p>\n<p>Eastmain\u2019s principal asset is the 220-sq.-km Clearwater gold property in Quebec\u2019s James Bay region, which includes the pre-development Eau Claire gold project. The 203-sq.-km Radisson property is northwest of Clearwater while the 82-sq.-km Reservoir site sits to the west.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article first appeared in the&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianminingjournal.com\/\" ><em>Canadian Mining Journal<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastmain&rsquo;s principal asset is the 220-sq.-km Clearwater gold property in Quebec&rsquo;s James Bay region.<\/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\/1189540"}],"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=1189540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189541,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189540\/revisions\/1189541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}