Dougherty says the deeper the company drills at Magino, the better the grades get. Ongoing drilling at the 2.14 million oz. reserve property is increasingly finding evidence of shared characteristics with the deposit’s closest analogues, Alamos Gold’s (TSX: AGI) Island Gold mine immediately next door (1.22 million oz. in reserves), and Wesdome Gold Mines’ (TSX: WDO) Eagle River (581,000 oz. in reserves), about 70 km on strike to the west.
The near-pit Elbow and Central zones are emerging as priority new exploration areas showing promising high-grade gold continuity
The Magino property is in the Goudreau-Lochalsh gold district of the Wawa gold camp, which itself sits within the Michipicoten greenstone belt of the Archean Superior Province. The Michipicoten greenstone belt is described as a structurally and stratigraphically complex collection of volcanic, sedimentary and intrusive rocks that were metamorphosed to greenschist and amphibolite facies.
The near-pit Elbow and Central zones are emerging as priority new exploration areas showing promising high-grade gold continuity.
