Global projects and exploration
will also reduce noise pollution, the risk of
hydrocarbon spills and fires, and reduce or
eliminate exhaust fumes. These are projected to
lower Borden’s capital and operating costs.
Goldcorp president and CEO David
Garofalo, speaking at the International Mining
and Resources Conference (IMARC) in
Melbourne recently, said using diesel in an
US
Junction prepares for drilling
Field preparations for the upcoming diamond
drill programme at exploration company
VR Resources’ Junction copper, silver, and
gold project in Nevada, US, are under way.
The announcement was made by Sunrise
Resources, an AIM-listed company that holds
an interest in the Junction Project.
According to Sunrise, VR Resources has
received final approvals for required drill
permits, a drill contract has been executed,
and start-up is planned soon. Highway access
to the property and ranch roads throughout
the property facilitate cost-effective
exploration at Junction. This drill programme
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underground operation is a risk inherent in the
mining industry.
“We manage and mitigate it as other
mining companies do, but we know that by
removing it, we remove a source of heat, fire,
and emissions from where our workers are
and lower the risk profile of our operations,”
Garofalo said. The mine will also incorporate other
technologies to achieve safety performance
and risk reduction. “Borden is a ‘connected
mine’ with real-time knowledge of where
people and equipment are and where work is
being done at all times. This enhances safety
and productivity,” Garofalo said.
is the result of more or less continuous
surface exploration at Junction since
April 2018.
VR reports that the copper-
silver mineralisation at Junction
has been sampled at surface along
a 6km trend, in coarse-grained
quartz-feldspar granite dykes hosted
within a sheared, polyphase cretaceous
batholith and that bornite-chalcopyrite
copper sulphide aggregates contain micro-
inclusions of silver, resulting in a nearly 1:1
correlation of copper and silver in assay data
from more than 100 samples. VR states
that the correlation does not vary along the
6km trend, nor does it vary depending on
the copper grade of a sample, or the ratio of
copper sulphide versus oxide. VR’s two drill targets include the Denio
Summit Target at the western end of the
copper-silver trend and occurs wholly within
the Sunrise area of interest.
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