Tuesday, 19th June 2007 (2092 views)

Mining at the British King project in Western Australia is due to recommence, it has been announced.

International Gold Mining reveals that the State Mining Engineer (Mines Department) granted its approval for the recommencement of mining last month.

The project is part of a previously producing gold mine with a total measured resource estimate, to 135 metres, of 24,000 tonnes at 20 grammes of gold per tonne.

In other gold news, Cream Minerals has announces that it has intersected gold on its Dos Hornos zone in Mexico.

According to the mining company, visible gold and silver sulphides were spotted within the drill core in the field.

Cream Minerals is a mineral exploration company with properties in Canada, Mexico and Sierra Leone, Africa.

Its Goldsmith Property in Canada contains a number of high-grade gold workings according to the firm.

"The quartz is milky to watery white, carrying a little arsenopyrite, galena and pyrite with, in places, very coarse free gold, liberally splashed through it, in bunches, masses, fibres and plates," according to a Geological Survey from 1903 which describes the original discovery of the Lucky Jack vein at Goldsmith.

 

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