RE:What about silver???Messina Minerals did extensive exploration on a system parallel to Marathon but 10 km to the west. They sold out to Canadian Zinc a couple years ago. They have some impressive but small Cu-Pb-Zn-Au-Ag deposits. The one that is closest in line with the J Frank Zone is called Boomerang and has a sizeable tonnage grading over 100 gpt silver. Canadian Zinc also bought out Paragon. It appears they are attempting to consolidate all the predominantly zinc reserves and try to make the consolidation worth the Capitol required to mine and process.
There may be some geological relevance but they are 10 km. apart. Maybe Marathon are only assaying for gold and it will be interesting if they identify core for expanded assays. This is a huge geological system that appears to run all the way to the Hope Brook gold mine that operated years ago by Royal Oak I believe, on the southwest coast of NL.