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Jonathon Naylor Editor A third round of exploration is underway on and around a long-defunct gold mine near Cranberry Portage. Callinex Mines recently began a new drilling campaign at its Gossan Hill property, which includes the former Gurney mine, about 20 kilometres northeast of the town. The Vancouver-based junior miner says this third drill program at Gossan Hill is designed to build on the perceived success of last year's drilling. Callinex says the mineralization has been defined by 64 diamond drill holes over two drilling seasons to date. The company says one of those holes returned a core width of 5.94 grams of gold per tonne over 14.77 metres; another intersected 19.88 grams per tonne over 2.45 metres of core width. The objective of the current drill program will be to expand the zone at depth and along strike, Callinex says. See 'Mineral...' on pg. 14Continued from pg. 9 The gold and silver mineralization at Gossan Hill is located along a two-kilometre shear zone, the company says, with the southernmost end of the shear zone the home of the long-defunct Gurney mine. Records indicate the Gurney mine produced 28,045 ounces of gold between 1937 and 1939, when it closed never to reopen. According to the provincial government, the property was first staked as the Dominion claims in 1919. Wylie-Dominion Gold Mines Ltd. was incorporated in 1933 to develop those claims. The property would change hands several times over the decades. Exploration work was carried out in the 1980s and 1990, but mining has not occurred in more than seven decades. Callinex's holdings at Gossan Hill consist of 3,679 hectares of mining claims. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its regulation services provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of information supplied by Callinex Mines.
