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third trend, Silver Creek, was recently
uncovered by the company's airborne sur-
veys further to the north. "Within those
three trends, there are five, high priority,
drill-ready targets," said Baker. "Each of
them has district-scale potential for gold
deposits."
Baker, who is a graduate of the nearby
South Dakota School of
Mines and Technology,
noted that the Homestake
Mine also produced signifi-
cant amounts of silver. "Our
Rochford Project mineraliza-
tion is virtually identical to
the Homestake Mine with
probably 1 gram of silver for
every 5 grams of gold.
For Mineral Mountain's
upcoming exploration pro-
gram, the company plans to
initially drill two of the high
priority targets, namely, the Standby Mine
patents. "We plan to drill about 10,000
metres tracing the gold mineralization
down-plunge from the mine," said Baker.
"The other target is the Cochrane South
Project Trend. We have some high-grade
mineralization that was intersected histori-
cally within 150 metres of our boundary
and we plan to drill another 10,000 metres
there."
Pending the receipt of drill permits and
completion of a $6 million financing, the
drilling program would start either later
this year or early in January 2017. The
Black Hills of South Dakota is a mining-
friendly jurisdiction with year-round
access, excellent infrastructure and a
skilled mining labour force.
With such a large gold endowment and
so many past producers within the large
Rochford property, the extensive gold
trends and Coeur Mining's nearby produc-
ing Wharf gold mine, Baker is of the view
that, because of the size and length of these
gold structures, there is enough volume of
gold mineralized rock, that the company
has documented that each one of the tar-
gets could contain multi million ounces.
"We could have several gold deposits in the
Rochford district," he said.
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a mineral mountain geologist examines an outcrop in the
rochford district of the Black Hills, southwestern South Dakota,
USa. photo courtesy mineral mountain resources Ltd.
