The latter hole intercepted new mineralization at the Kiena Deep A zones area, located about 100 metres below the known limit of the A zone resource, the company said. It also made a discovery in the south limb of the A zone, a lateral expansion of mineralization identified by multiple intercepts.
“We are continuing to spend aggressively on exploration at Kiena with C$17.7 million to be spent in 2022 that includes approximately 50,000 metres of underground drilling and 30,000 metres of surface drilling,” the company’s CEO Duncan Middlemiss said in a press release.
“It is evident that as we continue to explore and collect new information, we are able to discover traps for gold mineralization outside of the known zones, thereby demonstrating the prospectivity of this area and the entire property,” he added.
The Kiena Mine complex restarted production in May 2021 after operations were suspended in 2013 due to declining…
