{"id":1191809,"date":"2020-06-23T15:19:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T20:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1027819"},"modified":"2020-06-23T15:19:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T20:19:18","slug":"rio-tinto-starts-exploration-at-janice-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1191809","title":{"rendered":"Rio Tinto starts exploration at Janice Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) has started exploration<\/a> at Forum’s Janice Lake sedimentary copper\/silver project in northern Saskatchewan, Canada.<\/p>\n

The major is earning up to an 80% interest in the project<\/a> from Forum Energy Metals, which has optioned the property from Transition Metals.<\/p>\n

Crews have begun construction of the 50 person camp on the property at Burbidge Lake. <\/p>\n

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An eight-person prospecting and mapping team has started systematic traverses on 2km wide spacings on the 52km extent of the property<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

Copper showings, structural, geophysical, geochemical and boulder train targets developed by the mapping and prospecting program will be drilled using a Rotary Air Blast (RAB) drill rig. <\/p>\n

An eight-person prospecting and mapping team has started systematic traverses on 2km wide spacings on the 52km extent of the property. <\/p>\n

“We have barely scratched the surface on exploring this sedimentary basin which stretches for over 50 kilometres,” Rick Mazur, Forum Energy CEO said in a release.<\/p>\n

“Rio Tinto’s focus will not only be on finding higher grade and thicker open pit strata-bound horizons, but also high grade structurally controlled mineralization.”<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s program at the sedimentary copper-silver project, located 55 km southeast of Key Lake, included 21 drill holes totalling 5,209 metres.<\/p>\n

Highlights included a hole at Jansem target that cut 5 metres of 1.32% copper and 3.42 g\/t silver within a longer 51.8-metre interval grading 0.57% copper and 1.5 g\/t silver (starting at 116 metres depth).<\/p>\n

Midday Tuesday, Forum Energy\u2019s stock was down 11% on the TSXV. The company has a C$9 million market capitalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crews have begun construction of the 50 person camp on the Saskatchewan 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":[369,2640],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191809"}],"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=1191809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191810,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191809\/revisions\/1191810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}