Golden Predator Corp (TSX: GPD) has expanded its land holding in the Yukon to more than 600km2, with the expansion of its Clear Creek and Gold Dome properties to 60km2 and 170 km2, respectively. After staking additional claims, the company now plans to explore the expanded properties through the 2010 exploration program.
With the addition of 168 peripheral and contiguous quartz lode mining claims, the Clear Creek property now comprises 300 contiguous claims, located 65km northwest of Mayo, in an active placer mining area that has produced more than 129,000oz gold to date. Through Golden Predator’s Phase One 2010 exploration program, 1,000m of oriented HQ diameter diamond drilling will be undertaken on the Bear Paw breccia zone, which followed up by 3,500 m of reverse circulation drilling.
The diamond drilling will be carried out on a select number of historic holes, in order to determine the orientation of Bear Paws’ previously identified mineralization, as well as five north-south directed diamond holes, to test whether the mineralization follows an east-west trend. Meanwhile, the RC program will focus on a grid, across the established mineralization trend, on the Bear Paw hydrothermal breccias.
Pending the results of the Bear Paw drilling, Golden Predator noted that other under-explored low-grade bulk tonnage targets will be tested on the property.
Elsewhere, at Gold Dome – which Golden Predator said “hosts one of the largest gold-arsenic-bismuth soil anomalies in the Yukon” – the company has now staked a further 307 peripheral and contiguous quartz lode mining claims.
In 2009’s drilling on Gold Dome’s Tom Zone, Golden Predator was highlighted by 11.12 grams per tonne (g/t) gold over 25.40m, with other drill highlights including: 1.64g/t gold over 1.03m, 2.56g/t gold over 9.58m and 10.87g/t gold over 1.98m.
Gold Dome now comprises 815 contiguous claims covering approximately 170km2. According to Golden Predator, the Phase One 2010 program at Gold Dome will be the largest exploration program ever undertaken on this “under-explored” property.
With the additional staking, the company will now conduct an updated drill program with a minimum of 9,000 m of reverse circulation drilling, 1,500m of diamond drilling, re-opening and re-mapping the Toby zone trenches, and a 500-sample soil geochemical program sampling.
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