PEX @ North of 60 Mining News, August 28, 2011It´s exciting to hear John Brock looking at drillcore of hole 11MP-27 reached it´s target depth, smiling and telling the crew to keep drilling because "that is what we are looking for!".
CEO’s smile says keep drilling Mariposa
MARIPOSA – Without the sounds of an operating drill to guide our way, we wend our way from the helicopter landing zone to where the rig should be turning at Pacific Ridge Ltd.’s Mariposa gold project.
The silence emanating from the drill was not from a mechanical failure or some other technical issue – the drill crew had simply reached a predestinated depth of about 130 meters and was awaiting geologists to examine the core and to decide whether to keep drilling hole 11MP-27 or ready the rig for a move.
The smile that beamed across Pacific Ridge CEO John Brock’s face as he studied the freshly cut core said, “Keep drilling, this is what we are looking for!”
The orders implied by Brock’s smile were verbally confirmed by Pacific Ridge Vice President of Exploration Janice Fingler.
While the results of hole 27 will likely not be returned from the backed up assay labs for several weeks, hole 11MP-1 – which cut 38.9 meters averaging 2.44 grams per metric ton gold, including 11.1 meters averaging 6.44 g/t gold – provides a indication of the tenor of mineralization being sought at Mariposa.
Mariposa appears to be more akin to the Kaminak Gold Corp.’s Coffee Creek property about 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) to the southwest than Kinross Gold Corp.’s White Gold property about the same distance to the north.
Based on early exploration results, the company has increased its initial 4,000 meters of drilling to 6,000 meters. This expanded program will continue to focus on untested gold anomalies within the Skookum Jim target, one of five gold-in-soil anomalies found within a 21-square-kilometer (8-square-mile) area of the overall 262-square-kilometer (101-square-mile) property.
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