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Jonathon Naylor Editor Callinex Mines is encouraged by the first assay results from a winter exploration program at the long-defunct Gurney gold mine site near Cranberry Portage. The junior miner says drilling on the site _ now known as the Gossan Hill Property _ has brought an intersection grading 19.88 grams of gold per tonne over 2.45 metres. Another hole intersected 3.77 grams of gold over 2.39 metres. Those results are based on four holes from the program. Sixteen other holes have been drilled, with additional assay work now being completed. More targets are being tested both along strike and down plunge of the known mineralization, according to the Vancouver-based company. Callinex said its 2010-11 drill program at the site consisted of 31 holes, all of which returned gold and silver mineralization in 'encouraging' widths and concentrations. Records indicate the Gurney mine produced just over 28,000 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. Changed hands 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. The property is located about 20 kilometres northeast of Cranberry Portage. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its regulation services provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of information supplied by Callinex.
