Maple Gold Mines’ Douay gold project in Quebec. Credit: Maple Gold Mines
Kiran Patankar cracks a grin as he points towards the boreal forest that stretches as far as the eye can see.
“When you’re up here the first thing that strikes you is how vast the land that we control is,” the Maple Gold Mines (TSXV: MGM) CEO says after a breathtaking climb to the top of the headframe at the company’s flagship Douay property in northern Quebec.
“When you’re standing here and you get a view of what the potential is, you can start to see some bedrock outcrop,” he says. “You can see a mill site there. You can see areas for tailings. I look around and I see a mine. I see a mine with a potential to grow along strike.”
Douay is one of two gold projects that sit inside the 481-sq.-km land package that Maple has amassed along Abitibi’s Casa Berardi deformation zone, a major gold-bearing structure…
