{"id":1190758,"date":"2020-06-17T12:53:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T17:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1027333"},"modified":"2020-06-17T12:53:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T17:53:03","slug":"superior-gold-stock-soars-on-best-drill-result-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1190758","title":{"rendered":"Superior Gold stock soars on best drill result to date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superior Gold (TSXV: SGI) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.superior-gold.com\/investors\/news\/superior-gold-inc-announces-best-underground-expl-122592\/\" >has reported<\/a> its best underground drill intersection so far at the Plutonic gold mine in Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 19 holes (over 1,855 metres) completed during the ongoing drill program, 17 intersections encountered more than 5 g\/t Au. The best results include: 56.3 g\/t Au over 15.1 metres, 10.2 g\/t Au over 7.1 metres and 11.9 g\/t Au over 5.3 metres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The intersection of 56.3 g\/t Au over 15.1 metres is our most signficant intersection to date since we acquired the Plutonic gold operations,&#8221; president and CEO Chris Bradbrook stated. <\/p>\n<p>He added that these results illustrate the potential to extend the life of mine &#8220;well beyond the initial five years.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superior-gold.com\/assets\/plutonic-gold-mine\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Plutonic gold operation<\/a> is considered one of the largest gold mines in Western Australia in terms of cumulative production. Open-pit mining began in 1990 and ended in 2005, while underground production has been continuing since 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Superior Gold jumped 17.4% at midday Wednesday on the latest drill results. The Toronto-based gold junior has a market capitalization of C$78.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plutonic gold operation is considered one of the largest gold mines in Western Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"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":[949,369],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190758"}],"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\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190770,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190758\/revisions\/1190770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}