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The emerging
Spences Bridge
Gold Belt
ONGOING DISCOVERIES,
GREAT LOGISTICS, DRAW
COMPANIES INTO THE
SPENCES BRIDGE AREA
OF SOUTHERN BRITISH
COLUMBIA
by David Duval
P
erhaps it's in their corporate DNA
but mining companies have a habit
of looking for mineral deposits
not far off the beaten track – sometimes
successfully but most times not. The
Hemlo gold discovery in the mid-1980s
was made following a multi-decade long
history of exploration adjacent to the
TransCanada Highway and a stone's
throw from the town of Marathon on the
north shore of Lake Superior.
Spences Bridge is also located on
the TransCanada Highway approxi-
mately 300 km northeast of Vancouver
and it's become one of the more active
exploration regions in the province fol-
lowing an impressive gold discovery
by Westhaven Ventures Inc. [WHN-
TSXV; WTHVF-OTC] on its Shovelnose
Project.
The expanding discovery occurs
within a geological and structural
setting similar to other significant
epithermal gold-silver districts. The
company's team members have a track
record of discovery including: Diavik,
Polaris, Thor Lake, Silvertip and now
the Spences Bridge Gold Belt (SBGB).
Westhaven is the second largest
Gren Thomas, Chairman of Westhaven Ventures, and Mark Creaghan, consulting geologist,
viewing an outcrop at a road cut of the Shovelnose gold property in the Spences Bridge
Gold Belt, southern British Columbia. Photo courtesy Westhaven Ventures Inc.
